Events | Nose to Nose – UK

WHEN TREES COULD SPEAK – Level 2 – 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 What can puppets teach us about reclaiming our human connection to each other and to our world? This course continues from the Level 1 course. It is about finding freedom and discovering the many internal dialogues that we carry within us. We will exploring clowning and comedy through improvisations with ...
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FINDING THE GAME… an in-person course of 4 days – Ghent, New York, USA

Exploring our relationship to play and games through OOFA with Sarah French and CLOWNING with Vivian Gladwell Finding the game is the radical act at the heart of all clowning improvisation. Starting with the empty canvas, the silence and the unknowing that precedes every true act of creativity this course invites us to find the game. Games are found, not conceived. They come to us in o...
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AN INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – FREDRIKSTAD, NORWAY

With Vivian Gladwell and Oda Holmvik Bredvold 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...
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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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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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CLOWNS PLAY AND PAINT – INTRO WEEKEND, Emerson, UK

with Angie Wakeman A weekend Course for those wanting to play and paint! This is a weekend course for beginners to experience clowning and painting combined. Starting from learning a clown's approach to life, which is one of innocence and play, we will discover more and more about our unique clown within. Clowns will carry this into painting and drawing from their inner feeling of joy an...
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COURAGE TO BE – Clown Level 1 – Emerson, UK – THIS COURSE IS FULL

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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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – WEEKEND, LANCASTER 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 ...
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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – a one day workshop, Aberdeen, Scotland

WITH JESSICA HERNANDEZ 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 ...
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