Events | Nose to Nose – UK

KARMA DRAMA AND CLOWNING – exploring biography through play – Emerson College, UK

with Mike Chase and Vivian Gladwell Course Description: This innovative course delves into the realms of karmic enactments through psychodrama, and biography work, allowing participants to explore their biography through the transformative power of play, mask work and clowning. Course Objectives: Explore: the principles of Karma drama and its relationship with personal narratives an...
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EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED – CLOWN 2 – EMERSON COLLEGE, UK

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 i...
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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – WEEKEND, Emerson, UK

with Carol Thompson 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 c...
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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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PLAYING WITH FIRE – Conflict transformation and the clown – Laughton Lodge, nr Lewes, UK

with Juliet Millican and Vivian Gladwell This in-person workshop will give participants the chance to explore real-life situations of conflict through clowning improvisations and through dialogue and reflection within our group. Based on Jean Paul Lederarch’s notion of conflict transformation it will explore the ways in which we engage with conflict at four different levels, the personal (our o...
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A MASTERCLASS – Setting your clown free – Laughton Lodge, near Lewes, East Sussex, UK

with Vivian Gladwell An intensive week for advanced clowns limited to 6 participants. The course will enable each participant to explore in depth less familiar aspects of clowning with the intention of freeing their clown’s playfulness, creativity and risk taking. This means one-to-one improvisations with feedback for each participant. Possible areas of exploration are: Rhythm The...
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COURAGE TO BE – Clown Level 1 – EMERSON, UK

CLOWN, MOVEMENT AND DANCE – Emerson College – UK

A 4-day Clown, Movement and Dance Improvisation workshop. OPEN TO ALL In movement and physicality, we deepen the clowns commitment to both the here and now and the to world of the imagination. This course invites you to make some playful and surprising discoveries for your clown as you immerse yourself in both movement and clown improvisation. Find freedom in moving to the beat of your own...
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THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT – Scripted Clowning Development Workshop – a 3-day intensive course

Facilitators: Vivian Gladwell & Cameron Sievers Course Overview: This intensive workshop offers experienced clown actors a unique opportunity to collaborate with a playwright and his work in the development and staging of a scripted farce through clowning improvisation. Participants will engage in a creative process designed to enhance and complement scripted material, ultimately aiming...
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