Events | Nose to Nose – UK

ONLINE PLAYING WITH FIRE – Exploring Conflict Transformation through Clowning – SERIES OF 5 WEEKLY SESSIONS

with Vivian Gladwell and Arnaud Durand This online experiential workshop will give participants the chance to explore real-life situations of conflict through clowning improvisations and though dialogue and reflection within our group. This 2nd online course continues our previous exploration. By embracing our fears around vulnerability, loss of control and not knowing, the clown invit...
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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – a one day workshop, BLODS HALL, Bexhill-on-Sea, 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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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – WEEKEND – LEICESTER, UK

ONLINE SPONTANEOUS STORYTELLING AND THE CLOWN – a weekly course of 8 sessions

An online 8-week course to explore the art of storytelling through clowning with Vivian Gladwell and Angie Foster. What insights can clowns bring to the art of storytelling? If the storyteller holds the patterns for the past and the promises of the future, clowns are always at the beginning, knowing nothing and everything, creating the world out of whatever comes their way. Our hope for this...
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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – WEEKEND, Emerson, UK

THE STORYTELLER AND THE CLOWN – an exploration of the roots of love, fear and longing

The focus of our exploration will be “loving the world.” The current climate has filled our lives with many faces of fear but it is important to remember that most of these are of our own making. The birch tree outside my window is still most sovereignly herself, brimming with sap, glittering in her green garments and gloriously unaffected by all my angst to stay alive. Yes, we have inexcu...
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HEALTHCARE CLOWNING – exploring the clown’s role in a medical environment – Emerson, UK

with Vivian Gladwell and An Valenteyn "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." Voltaire Working in a healthcare environment such as a hospital or a medical institution, clowns require skills such as: empathy and sensitivity to people's space, communicating without words, moving with ease through charged emotional situations and staying connec...
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THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTION – CLOWN 3 – a six-day residential course

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 even those part of it we are desperately tryi...
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COURAGE TO BE – CLOWN 1 – Laughton Lodge, nr Lewes, 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 presen...
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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 insi...
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