Celebrate the New Year with an Introduction to Clowning!
with Ali Stockford
Clowning is a state of playfulness that brings us to experience a child-like, naïve and vulnerable state of being. Paradoxically we grow, learn and are strengthened through reconnecting playfully with what makes us most vulnerable. This approach to clowning is not a technique (tricks, gags and routines) but a personal journey towards finding one’s own unique way of being a clown, by listening and being receptive, essential skills for any creative and imaginative expression. It is only when we let go our control over things that we begin to be surprised by the depth of what reveals itself to us. Come for a weekend of letting go and freeing up!
The group is limited to 12
Facilitator : Alison Stockford
Ali participated in her first Nose to Nose workshop in 2002 and fell in love with the work. Since training Ali has been facilitating workshops with Nose to Nose since 2016. She holds this work in high esteem as a perfect grounding for all creative work and the bigger picture of trusting ourselves and life. Alison is a qualified and experienced teacher of over 25 years having delivered Performing Arts workshops in mainstream and special schools and older peoples settings. Dancing since the age of four she is drawn to facilitating how others explore the dimension of movement in their clown.
Performing experience includes: tap dancing and comedy in café-théâtre with Les Amuses Gueules Lille, France; Street Theatre and Theatre in Education with Inside Out Theatre Company, Hastings. In recent work for Nose to Nose, Ali has delivered trainings for the Giggle Doctors – Theodora Foundation, Lis’n Tell Speech and Language Practitioners, Quantum Marketing, London, medical students at the University of Bristol and social clowning at The Imaginarium, a writers conference, Cambridge. Ali speaks both English and French.
Early bird booking
140 GBP if you book before 14th November 2024 and secure your place with a deposit.
Course fee after 14th November 2024 : £180 – Tuition only
Deposit: £80
COURSE OPEN TO ALL
Date and times: 03 – 05 January 2025
The course begins Friday 7pm
Ends Sunday – 4pm
Venue:
Peredur Centre for the Arts
West Hoathly Road,
East Grinstead.
West Sussex, RH19 4NF.
info@peredurcentre.org.uk
01342 312527
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01342 312527
There is access to a kitchen and dining area here to prepare your own meals.
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Please note that this course is self-catering. The village of Forest Row with three supermarkets, whole food shops, cafes and restaurants is a couple of miles away. East Grinstead town centre is a couple of miles away in the opposite direction.
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