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Weekend Clown Workshop with Jon Davison

Jon

Saturday and Sunday 12th-13th March 2022

10-17 Uhr 

 

Open lecture- spaces available! please mail

or online

 

 

Clowns in History, Clowns for Future!

What use is clowning to us right now?

 

Friday 11th March at 7pm

entrance by donation for UKRAINE pay what you can

 

Please donate to:

 

Red Noses  Clowndoctors International

Thousands of Ukrainian children need urgent relief!

https://www.rednoses.eu/ukraine/

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

Online 

 

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This workshop dives into the fundamental dynamics of clowning, how to make yourself and your friends look stupid so we will love and laugh at you. How to celebrate being an object of laughter.

 

Converting our habitual fear of ridicule into the pleasure of laughing at ourselves, we can use it to make others laugh and experience the freedom clowning. How do clowns do what they do, how does your stupidity make you a success, and how does the unthinkably ridiculous come about?

 

When you really look, most things are ridiculous: our bodies, our movements, our ideas, our emotions, our words, our relationships, the universe. The only aim in clowning is to turn failure into success, fear into laughter, suffering into joy. We don’t need to change ourselves, just look at everything from another perspective. It’s a human thing to do, so anyone can do it.

 

Clowning is sometimes shrouded in mystery but in reality it's a very simple mode of performance. This workshop uses simple exercises rooted in laughter response in order to access clowning in the most direct manner possible.

 

Jon Davison

Jon Davison has been a clown performer, teacher, director and writer for the last 40 years. He has performed at festivals, theatres, tents, streets and bars throughout Europe, and taught worldwide. Pre-pandemic he was the producer of the long-running monthly clown theatre show ‘Friday Flop’. He is currently working on a new solo show drawing on pre-modern European traditions of carnival.

 

He taught clown, improvisation and acting at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona from 1996-2006, when he became a co-founder of the Escola de Clown de Barcelona. From 2007-2010 he was a Research Fellow investigating contemporary clown/actor training at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he obtained his PhD in Clown Performance Practice. He is now Lecturer in Clowning at London Metropolitan University. He has pioneered research and teaching of clown history and theory via his online Clown Studies Course and is now collaborating on an international research project exploring the decolonisation of clown pedagogy.

 

He has published two books, Clown: Readings in Theatre Practice (2013) and Clown Training - a practical guide (2015), both with Palgrave Macmillan. His third book, The Clowning Workbook, is to be published in 2022.

 

 

Facilitator: Jon Davison

Language: Englisch

Venue: remise/werkstatt für clownforschung

Participants: 12

Costs:

          Early Bird Spaces 1-6  € 150  

          Spaces 6-12 €180

 

Booking - one space available!

 

Should you wish to cancel your booking, your course fee will be reimbursed, if a replacement participant is found for your spot. The course will take place when at least 8 participants have signed up. If the course is cancelled, your payment will be refunded in full.

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