EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED – CLOWN 2 – Laughton Lodge, nr Lewes, UK

with Vivian Gladwell and Carol Thompson

This course offers further practice of clowning with the focus on structure and relationship (such as the Elder-Younger structure). At this level we practice 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 enough challenges and inspiration to take your understanding of this work forward.

Level 2 is a pre-requisite for Clown 3, Towards Performance and Social Clowning.

Facilitators:

Vivian Gladwell

Vivian is the founder and director of Nose to Nose and has given hundreds of workshops around the world. He lives both in the UK and France where he started clowning in 1978. He speaks French and English fluently.

Vivian began teaching in 1988 as part of the Lifeways Festival at Emerson College – UK. He trained as a facilitator with theBataclown in 1990 and joined their team in 1991 also working as a modern day Court Jester (Clownanalyst).

He created Nose to Nose UK in 1990, Nose to Nose of North America in 2006 and Fool View, the Social Clowning group and has trained facilitators in the UK, the USA, Germany and Italy – view history.
He continues his role as ambassador for the work by researching the applications of clowning in the context of teacher training, medicine, conflict management, ecology and intercultural work in many countries (South Africa, USA, Senegal, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, Italy, Germany, Norway…)

He holds clowning as a social playground for exploring our humanity.

Carol Thompson

Carol’s training was in English and Theatre Arts at the University of Toronto and the Drama Studio in London. She worked in Education and Theatre for some years and then qualified to be a Psychosynthesis therapeutic counsellor and an NLP Master Practitioner. Carol took these skills into business in the private and public sectors as a Communication Skills Trainer. In recent years she has become involved in the positive psychology movement as a Laughter Leader and now a Clowning Facilitator, combining her interests in education, theatre and psychology.

Course fee: £410 – Tuition only (deposit of £180 is required to secure your place)

Meals: £156 (this cost will be included in your final invoice for the course)

Breakfast/lunch/supper/tea breaks from Sunday supper through to Friday lunch inclusive.

All meals are freshly prepared each day and are organic and vegetarian . Vegan and gluten-free options are available. Please let us know if we need to cater for any specific allergies. Tea, coffee and snacks are also included during tea breaks

Accommodation:
You will need to book your accommodation separately with Laughton Lodge.

Laughton Lodge website – https://laughtonlodge.org/stay/

Room: Prices are approximately £60 per person in an accommodation suite or a guest room in a house in the community. (Sun – Thursday night inclusive)

Camping: prices are approximately £40 for the duration of the workshop (Sun – Thursday night inclusive)

Date and times:
The course begins Sunday – 18h15 (with supper)
Ends Friday – after lunch – 14h30

Venue: Laughton Lodge, Lewes, East Sussex, UK

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