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PREVIOUS ASSOCIATES
 Terry
Harrington
began organising Nose to Nose workshops in the UK in 1994. A trained
counsellor, she works on a helpline for children and families and
facilitates non-directive play with children and young people. She
runs clown workshops for counsellors and for team building in organisation.
 Paul
MacDonald
teaches drama and clowning at the Artemis School in Peredur, East
Sussex where he first trained in Creative Speech. He also runs clown
workshops for Waldorf teachers, doctors and Special Needs groups.
He is currently directing a number of clown performances.
Chris Seeley
I spent much of my childhood making art and my first degree was in
design, specialising in typography. Beginning in corporate design,
I moved (via Masters' degrees in Marketing and Responsibility and
Business Practice), to business consultancy, action research and sustainability.
I then came to weave arts-based practice back into the mainstream
of my work. My involvement with sustainability issues brought to the
fore the need for our species, to come to know the world in many different
ways - including "presentational knowing" or arts-based
practice. Increasingly, I have worked in the visual arts, improvisation,
storytelling, clowning and forum theatre (in Sri Lanka) in my educational,
business and development work. I am a Visiting Fellow at the Centre
for Action Research in Professional Practice, and my consultancy work
is deeply informed by and concerned with action research processes.
This interweaving of my concerns was articulated in my unconventional
2006 PhD - "Wild Margins: Playing at work and life" which
explores the overlapping relationship between purposeful work and
the arts, and arts-based practice (especially clowning) which holds
intentions around sustainability issues.
Robert McNeer
Born in the United States in 1957, McNeer has worked as an actor and
theatrical educator in the USA and in Europe since 1977.
With a Bachelor’s degree in the “Interpretation of Literature”
from Northwestern University, he also studied at the Mimenschule Ilg
in Zurich and with Tadashi Suzuki in Togamura, Japan.
He regularly conducts seminars for actors and educators in Germany,
and acting courses in Puglia, southern Italy. In 13 years of acting
work with Teatro Kismet in Bari, Italy, he has also taught theatre
in schools, prisons and psychiatric wards. He has worked as an actor
in front of children and adults in Asia and the Middle East as well
as throughout Europe.
In 1999, together with his wife Pia Wachter, he founded La Luna nel
Pozzo (The Moon in the Well), a cultural centre in the countryside
near Ostuni (Brindisi province), in southern Italy, where, aside from
his work as director and actor, he continues his theatrical research
with non-professional actors (young people, teachers, social workers,
differently-abled), both in theatrical and non-theatrical settings,
such as the countryside, town squares and historical neighborhoods,
archeological sites. ... read more.
Dr Andy Pride (GP)
Andy is a practicing GP. He has found that clowning maintained his
sanity whilst working within the sometime mad world of public services.
He has studied clowning with Vivian Gladwell (Nose to Nose) Didier
Danthois (Fool at Heart) Patch Adams (Gesundheit!) Angela De Castro
(Why Not Institute of Contemporary Clowning) and others.
He has experience of clowning in theatre, street, social and institutional
settings and more recently lead workshops using clowning to enhance
communication skills and personal awareness for groups such as GP’s
and Palliative care staff.
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and in memory of Jackie Moore
who died 31 July 2006
read more ...
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