What they are saying about Amiworkshop:
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"I have participated in several of Ami's workshops and noticed something:
when observing an artist work/play, Ami sits on the very edge of his chair, completely focused, ready to “catch the moment”. A predator of joy, poised, every muscle set to strike the moment, the opportunity, the now, a love-filled enemy of predictability and habit. He kills lies. He celebrates truth. He is Ami. He is the thing he wants us to be: TOTALLY PRESENT. Thank you, Ami." |
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Michael Christiensen
(A founder of the Big Apple Circus in 1977 and Founder of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit in 1985, Michael is a pioneer in the art of hospital clowning and many consider him the father of the profession.)
(A founder of the Big Apple Circus in 1977 and Founder of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit in 1985, Michael is a pioneer in the art of hospital clowning and many consider him the father of the profession.)
Pedro Fabiao
(A former artistic director and coach team leader of Operaçao Nariz Vermelho, the Portuguese healthcare clown organization, Pedro performs as a clown, teaches and directs) |
"Ami, the teacher, is not only a game lover but also a game changer. There's a before and after Ami in any artistic organisation he is invited to. In Operaçāo Nariz Vermelho, Portugal, we have a 10 years long collaboration with him, who became the most influential teacher for our company.
Every time he came he raised the game to a new height. As Operação's Coach team leader and later as its artistic director, Ami was my obvious choice to deepen our artistic development by coaching all our clowns in the hospital and simultaneously train our artistic coaches. This proved to be a clear jump in our company's artistic autonomy. Ami brings a very clear and highly practical set of artistic tools which integrate most of the complex layers of reality where a hospital clown plays. He is the restless, passionate, mad scientist of physical comedy and clowning. He developed his own extremely useful language, which synthesises much of Lecoq's approach, old and modern physical comedy/vaudeville/circus elements and cartoon universe, in the service of the play. There's a few fun and truly inspiring teachers in the world, and Ami's approach does something extremely rare on top of that: he speaks both to the mind and the heart, to the adult and the child, to the pilot and the clown. Therefore he helps artists understand and gain authorship in their craft." |
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"Ami Hattab has worked with our organisation many times in the last few years. Both as a clown and coach trainer. He is the Albert Einstein of clown theory. No one I know has such a depth of knowledge in clown, specifically healthcare clown, working methods.
His many years of teaching and research have borne fruit in an easily accessible method, simple to understand and highly effective. I have seen novice, nervous clowns transform, in a matter of days, into curious, experimental, confident performers. I cannot recommend him highly enough. Ami tears at the fabric of quantum clown reality, exposing the patterns and marking the paths so that the rest of us "mere mortals" have a map with which to explore. His personal clown vocabulary, full of so many delicate nuances, lights the road of understanding. Guiding us all cheerfully into new and always entertaining lessons of clown life." |
Ewan Mackinnon
(Artistic director and coach team leader of Danske Hospitalkolvne - the Danish Healthcare Clown Organization) |
Perola Regina Ribeiro
(Artistic director of Rdeči Noski - the Slovenian Red Noses Healthcare Clown Organization) |
"The hospital clown team Rdeči Noski - Slovenia, had the precious opportunity to work with Ami Hattab for three years consecutively. This constant work brought us many results from the basic state of the clown to building a rich clown play in pairs.
Ami is a big influence until now for our group, as he built up with us a common vocabulary. Which helps us immensely when we want to research something, or even make feedback at the end of a hospital visit. In other words, he offered us tools to be autonomous and thinking about our work as actors, as clowns and as social agents within the hospital. Ami, with his passion for the work of clown, encourages his students to develop and research more and more the nature of the play. In his unique way, he is able to catch the very best part of each one." |
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"Ami Hattab has worked as a teacher/trainer for Sairaalaklovnit (The Finnish Hospital Clowns Association) and we have been very satisfied with his work which has inspired and helped to develop our work in hospital clowning.
Ami has clear and precise pedagogy for clowning which is very useful for both beginners and experienced clowns. He has also created a working and easily adaptable coaching-method (training as part of the clowning days in hospitals). The terms and vocabulary he uses to define clown work give a great basis for both coaching and shared views on clowning." Ami's teaching method is accurate, warm-hearted, fun and inspiring!” |
Kari Jagt
(Artistic director of Sairaalaklovnit - the Finnish Healthcare Clown Organization) |
Martin Falář
(Healthcare clown and actor - Czech Republic) |
"After attending five workshops of Ami, the “journey” is a word that perhaps expresses his work and pedagogic approach at best. Indeed, it is a journey to essential theatre principles, to the core of the meaning of theatre, to one’s own true emotions and presence on stage in particular.
Life and art, acting and understanding are intertwined in Ami’s work, his attitude is one of the greatest examples of professionalism in teaching and artistic leading. His method is based on creativity, respect of the others and oneself as well, support and above all freedom. Repeatedly I could see how Ami is leading his students (and of course, I can see it on myself and my Czech colleagues on the first place) to their liberating on stage, to the feeling of freedom that is where any theatrical work and true artistic experience really begin. I can recommend working with Ami Hattab to anybody, individual or theatre group, who are interested in profound and thorough research on the art of clowning and comedy. To anybody who is looking for a new fresh and appreciable start of their comic stage existence. Or anybody who wants to bring their theatre activities to a higher state of perfection." |
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"Ami Hattab is not only a memorable teacher, his high communication skills and knowledge go way beyond the conventional methods, allowing his students to feel confident to create and yet demanding from them a high level of commitment to the work.
He seems to make it feel easy, facilitating the understanding of the work through a continuously ludic atmosphere and bringing out the pure joy of creativity together, while never forgetting the importance of discipline and concentration at every moment. His understanding of human nature and empathy makes everyone feel involved, his passion is contagious and makes every class a special one through observation and thorough analysis of the dynamics of clown, acting and comedy." |
Antonio Gil
(Actor, Director) |
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For any reservation, questions or requests,
contact Ami directly here or call +33 6 82 87 66 84. |