EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED - clown level 2
with Vivian Gladwell and Sarah French
August 6 to 10, 2014
Ipswich, MA
This course offers further practice of clowning with the focus
on structure and relationship. The more demanding aspects of this
level come from a need to practice a responsiveness to and awareness
of your partner on stage, your audience and the images, stories
and characters that emerge during improvisation. The teaching method
will emphasize finding greater insights into the techniques of improvisation
and performance, providing challenges and inspiration enough to
take your understanding of this work forward.
The group is limited to 12
Course fee - $525
Deposit - $180
Times: This course begins Wednesday at 10.00 and
ends Sunday at 13.00
Each day will be from 10.00 to 18.00
FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS COURSES
The Courage to Be Workshop was unlike anything I expected. Defenses
I had relied upon for so long, slowly began to peel away. I felt unbearably
vulnerable...and at the same time liberated.
At the end of the week I felt that I had gained something intangible
but very real. And magical.
E. M. from Concord, MA - November 2013
“Thank you for the deep look into what is going on;
in me and around me. Wow”
S.T. from Boston, MA - July 2013
“One of my goals in attending your "Courage to
Be" workshop was to become more spontaneous and less stiff
in my relationships with others. …What a delight! Many thanks.”
P. C. from Lenox, MA - November 2013
“The work was life changing… the exercises were
miraculously simple and profound and effective. I wish the workshop
had been two weeks.”
E. S. from Brookline, MA - November 2013
Vivian Gladwell
is a modern-day jester and the founder of Nose to Nose, which holds
clowning as a social playground for exploring our humanity. He lives
in France and England and has given hundreds of workshops around the
world. Browse this website for interviews and articles about the Nose
to Nose approach to clowning.
Sarah French
has practiced clowning around the world with Jef Johnson, Julie Goell,
and Vivian Gladwell. She recently finished “A Mystery You,”
a meditation on the impossibility of separation which is she is adapting
for performance. She was a practicing psychotherapist before turning,
with relief and joy, to the paradoxical world of clowning. While she
no longer practices psychotherapy, she embraces clowning as a related,
if different invitation to celebrate full being. She holds an MSW
from New York University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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