Events | Nose to Nose – UK

WHEN TREES COULD SPEAK – Level 1 – 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 In this online course the screen becomes the perfect puppet stage - framing and focusing the play in a way that's uniquely suited to clowning with puppets. Using puppets, the identities of clown, puppet and puppeteer blur, the conventions unravel, and the confusion becomes brilliant material for comedy and d...
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THE HEART AND CLOWN- Hastings- UK

24th and 25th January 2026 A weekend workshop in Dance and Clowning An exploration of movement, dance, imagination and the red nose. OPEN TO ALL During this weekend workshop, Emma and Ali will lead you on a journey that weaves the poetic worlds of Dance and Clown Improvisation. Our theme: The Heart. No previous movement, dance or clowning experience required. This course is for be...
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COURAGE TO BE – A ONE-DAY INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING, CENTRAL LONDON

With Vivian Gladwell Join Vivian Gladwell at Rudolf Steiner House, London for a one day taster workshop in Nose to Nose Clowning. This will be a light-hearted, playful day exploring creativity, connection and spontaneity whilst discovering your Clown. Clowning is a state of playfulness that brings us to experience a child-like, naïve and vulnerable state of being. Paradoxically we grow, lea...
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A ONE DAY TASTER, EAST GRINSTEAD, UK

With Vivian Gladwell Celebrate Valentines day with a one day taster workshop in Nose to Nose Clowning. This will be a light-hearted, playful day exploring creativity, connection and spontaneity whilst discovering your Clown. 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 thr...
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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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A ONE DAY TASTER, EAST GRINSTEAD, UK

With Ali Stockford Welcome in the Spring with a one day taster workshop in Nose to Nose Clowning. This will be a light-hearted, playful day exploring creativity, connection and spontaneity whilst discovering your Clown. 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 r...
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CLOWN 1 WEEK – THE COURAGE TO BE – NEAR LEUVEN, BELGIUM

3-8 april 2026 with Vivian Gladwell and An Valenteyn Workshop in English 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 f...
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A ONE DAY TASTER, EAST GRINSTEAD, UK

With Vivian Gladwell All welcome at this one day taster workshop in Nose to Nose Clowning. This will be a light-hearted, playful day exploring creativity, connection and spontaneity whilst discovering your Clown. 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 reconne...
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EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED – CLOWN 2 – Peredur Centre, East Grinstead, UK, UK

with Vivian Gladwell and Ali Stockford 12th - 17th April 2026 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 emp...
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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – WEEKEND, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

with Ali Stockford and Mairi-Claire Traynor About Clowning 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...
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