Events | Nose to Nose – UK

EXPLORING PLAYBACK THEATRE AND CLOWNING

AN INTRODUCTORY WEEKEND WITH VERONICA NEEDA AND VIVIAN GLADWELL Join us for an exciting journey of research on the edges of Playback and Clowning. This course is a taster for a longer exploration in June. See June course Course description Both Playback and Clowning have spontaneity, creativity and play as key values and practice in their work. Both work with personal and social stories. B...
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INTERCULTURAL CLOWNING in Northern Italy

5 day residential – taught in English and Italian. See the venue A rare opportunity to work with Vivian Gladwell, founder of Nose to Nose. This course is highly recommended to people who have some experience of our work. Participants say that this course is unlike any other clown course they have experienced – and many keep coming back year after year. The workshop is set in the beautiful r...
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INTRO WEEKEND near PRAGUE – Czech Republic

An introduction to Clowning in Prague 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 to overcome the fears that block us from being fully present in...
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AT A LOSS FOR WORDS – POETRY / CLOWN with Paul Matthews

WITH PAUL MATTHEWS AND VIVIAN GLADWELL A weekend exploring language & silence The workshops that Paul offers are a subtle mixture of playful and profound, individual and in between. They can include simple exercises in movement through which the powers and gestures of language are revealed. This is a weekend of clowning and writing creatively in which we will explore the spaces betwee...
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INTRODUCTION TO CLOWNING – WEEKEND

WITH VIVIAN GLADWELL 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 ...
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AN EVENING CLOWN SHOW with 7 solo clown performances

Seven performers will present their work from the CREATE YOUR OWN SOLO clown course that began in October 2015. THE SHOW Nose to Nose clowns enter new territory with this devised show that offers a fresh fun look at the universal light and dark aspects of the human condition. Birth, Love, Betrayal, Pilgrimage and Death are the chosen themes for these seven solo acts…a truly heroic journ...
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AN AFTERNOON CLOWN SHOW with 7 solo clown performances

Seven performers will present their work from the CREATE YOUR OWN SOLO clown course that began in October 2015. THE SHOW A smorgasbord of music, poetry, dancing, storytelling, laughter and emotions. The performance is the result of 6 months of hard work working with personal stories through the lens of play, lightness and humour. Come and join us. The performance is about 1:30 hours ...
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THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTION – CLOWN 3

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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PLAYBACK THEATRE AND CLOWNING

A WEEK COURSE WITH VERONICA NEEDA AND VIVIAN GLADWELL Join us for an exciting journey of research on the edges of Playback and Clowning. Course description Our challenge as we grow through the work (both in Clowning and Playback) becomes about learning how to speak in as many voices as possible, to become sensitive to both our inner and outer worlds. Both Playback and Clowning have spo...
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CLOWN, MOVEMENT AND DANCE

WITH ALI BOWLER A weekend course dedicated to the playful exploration of movement and dance. Do you feel a bit off balance? Do you bump into yourself? Do you feel a little silly? This is the path of Clown. Simple, vulnerable, and naive, the clown reminds us to dance lightly through life. Join us to embark on a personal journey toward your unique way of expressing yourself through curiosity...
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