Events | Nose to Nose – UK

ONLINE CLOWN 1- SERIES OF 8 WEEKLY SESSIONS – THEORY, PERSONAL REFLECTIONS AND PRACTICAL GROUP WORK

WITH VIVIAN GLADWELL AND ALI STOCKFORD Each Saturday from 5 PM to 7 PM (UK time) From 8 Jan to 26 Feb 2022 Course Outline: Nose to Nose has planned this Introduction to Clowning for anyone interested and curious to discover the Nose to Nose pedagogy and approach to Clowning. Sessions run each Saturday from 5 to 7 pm (UK time). There will be open discussions and practical tasks which wil...
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WHEN TREES COULD SPEAK – An online course for discovering your Clown through Puppetry

An Online Course of 6 weekly sessions of 2 hours With Vivian Gladwell and Laura Geilen We are presenting this course with puppets during a time of pandemic and isolation. What can puppets teach us about reclaiming our human connection to each other and to our world? For beginners as well as confirmed clowns or puppeteers this course is about finding freedom and discovering the many internal...
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WHO AM I? WHAT AM I DOING? WHY AM I HERE? – SERIES OF 8 WEEKLY SESSIONS – THEORY, PERSONAL REFLECTIONS AND PRACTICAL GROUP WORK

WITH VIVIAN GLADWELL AND KRISTIN CROWLEY Each Saturday from 6:00pm - 8:00pm (UK Time) / 1:00pm - 3:00pm (Eastern Time) / 10:00am - 12:00pm (Pacific Time) From 5 March to 30 April 2022 An exploration through clowning in eight sessions over nine weeks of these basic human questions: Who Am I? What Am I Doing? Why Am I Here? With simple games, exercises and improvisations we will explor...
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THE STORYTELLER AND THE CLOWN – an exploration of the roots of love, fear and longing – part 2

In the second part of this three-part exploration we will focus on loving ourselves into existence. As Rumi puts it so eloquently “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." What are these barriers and where did they come from? Behind each of us are the patterns and the modelings of our first love teacher...
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CLOWN AND VOICE – Emerson College – UK

"An essential course for grounding your experience of clowning" Through our voice, we deepen our clown's emotional commitment to life and we create out of thin air the images and stories that make up our identity and our lives. Join us on this powerful journey of discovery. For more information on the voice work visit http://www.roy-hart-theatre.com The group is limited to 12. ALL ...
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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – WEEKEND, Emerson, UK

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 cl...
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MOVE, PLAY, CLOWN! – an online course

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." Friedrich Nietzsche How does the clown respond to the things that they witness or imagine? By inhabiting and becoming the things that they see, imagine or feel the clown becomes a colourful storyteller and in the empty space we, the audience witness and experience the adventures the clown is living through. One of...
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COURAGE TO BE – Clown Level 1 – Emerson, UK

with Vivian Gladwell and 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 pr...
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AN ONLINE TASTER COURSE – 3 sessions

WITH ALI STOCKFORD THIS COURSE IS FOR PEOPLE NEW TO THE NOSE TO NOSE APPROACH and who would like to have a brief intro to clowning before committing to a longer workshop. 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 vul...
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