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with Vivian Gladwell and Arnaud Durand An experiential workshop, giving participants the chance to alternate between action and reflection. All the exercises are designed so that no previous experience of either clowning or peacemaking is necessary. By embracing our fears around vulnerability, loss of control and not knowing, the clown invites us to remain fully engaged, curious and interest...
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with Ali Stockford The word “courage” comes from a root that means “heart.” Through clowning and connecting to our playful spirit we can develop and sustain, in ourselves and each other, the heart to be who we truly are, to trust life and ourselves. “Taking heart” is a profoundly inward process, and an invitation for overcoming the fears that block us from being fully present in the “Here a...
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A five-day Clown Improvisation and Creative Dance workshop to wake up our movement imagination and discover the clown in motion. A Clown workshop in which you will find yourself dancing. OPEN TO ALL DESCRIPTION Do you feel a bit off balance? Do you bump into yourself? Do you trip over your own feet? How can we trust the messages our body is sending? When we notice and become curious of our ...
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with Vivian Gladwell, Ali Stockford and Jessica Hernandez  The word “courage” comes from a root that means “heart.” Through clowning and connecting to our playful spirit we can develop and sustain, in ourselves and each other, the heart to be who we truly are, to trust life and ourselves. “Taking heart” is a profoundly inward process, and an invitation for overcoming the fears that block us...
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with Vivian Gladwell and Ali Stockford 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 ins...
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with Vivian Gladwell and Carol Thompson Clowning is the art of making mistakes and there is an art to paying attention to the unexpected, to accidents and those unintended things we do. Sometimes our striving for perfection blinds us to what the world is trying to tell us. Great wisdom can be found in making peace with our shadows and our shortcomings and clowning celebrates all our humanity ev...
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with Vivian Gladwell and Arnaud Durand Mindfulness and the Clown A playful exploration of Mindfulness and Clowning Participants in our workshops often express the deep connections they feel between Clowning and Mindfulness.  Clowning invites us to connect lightly and playfully to our emotions without identifying with them, in a non-judgmental way. Clowning also asks us to be powerfull...
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Myth for storytellers is about the presence of the Gods, the stories they left behind, the stories of how they made this world, of how they created us,  their mishaps and marvels. Mythologies invite us into the mysteries of the world and our place in it. But for clowns who are always at the beginning, who know nothing and everything, who create the world out of nothing - what sense do they m...
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