Healthcare Clowns Workshops
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Clownplay - Fundamentals
From the basics clown-state to building clown-play
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Taking the time to revisit the art of clown's fundamentals can be a refreshing, rich and empowering experience. The Basic Clown state, the enhanced presence, the "yes, and", the play of emotions and body, the silliness, idiocy that emerges spontaneously, and the language of the clown play.
The clown play, among other things, is based on the emotional journey of the performer through the plot. However, this play must be transposed to the clown language: from emotion to motion, movement, attitudes, voice and words. From there, it expands into countless possibilities. The practice is done first alone and then with a partner. |
The Clown's Body - Emotion and Motion
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The emotional component and its physical consequence are a major part of clown play.
This theme focuses on :
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The Clown Duo
Weaving relationship, action and situations into building the improvised clown play
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The practice and apprenticeship of constructing the clown improvisation (generally for clowns, and specifically for healthcare clowns).
Using a series of strategies and tools, offering the performers more freedom, ease and creativity while having a rich and coherent plot:
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The Power of Power
Status & Power Relationships
in Play and Clown |
Exploring the various forms of Power relationships and other options of contrast in the duo.
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An Artistic Toolbox for Building Clown Play
A series of practical play and devising elements forge and enhance the clown play
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Having practiced the art of comedy and clown both on stage and in hospital performing, I've been examining the common and different between these two areas, and all that can be brought from the stage into an optimal play in hospital (=maximum of stage play while considering the conditions and constraints of each venue in the healthcare environment).
On this journey, I have been implementing tools I brought from theatre clowning, as well as others I created and developed - especially adapted for the Healthcare Clown Performer. The tools chosen for this workshop are practical and useful yet simple to learn and to apply. During the workshop we will practice those tools individually, in couples or in small groups. This work offers to the performers and their partners a vocabulary that shifts the work into a creative construction site of clown play, while improvising. It also allows them to discuss about their work before, in-between and after performances in order to set common objectives, themes, as well as debrief and adjust their play together. |
The Artistic Skill,
the Act and the Duo |
Performing a skill (music, song, juggling, magic, dance, puppets etc.) is one thing.
How does the clown perform the skill?
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Physical Comedy
for Clowns |
The play of Physical Comedy calls upon the body, the rhythm and the gesture as well as an internal intensity and presence.
The "technician" within has to be present at least as much as the interpreted character. In this extrapolated style of play, we will explore:
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Physical Storytelling & Cartoon Theatre
"Storymoving" for Clowns
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A workshop about storytelling - but where words are not the first means of expression.
Storymoving : the use of the body, and the voice. Borrowing fundamental elements from cartoons and comic books, from music and cinema. We will visit:
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I'm a White Clown of All Colors
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The white clown, the "number 1" could be so often mistaken for the "ultimate, authority director" who is less funny and solely in the service of the red august antics.
This module explores:
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The Support of Mask-work for the Clown
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As J. Lecoq mentioned, the red nose is the smallest mask. And indeed the fundamental rules of mask-work can contribute to enriching the clown play:
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The Body of Words
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In a world of play where the body and the emotion are so present, words, misused could dilute and even drown the play.
Words, text, things to be said and heard have a body. We will explore:
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