Events | Nose to Nose – UK

A ONE DAY TASTER, EAST GRINSTEAD, UK

With Ali Stockford 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 reconnect...
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WEEKEND ON THE CLOWN AND PLAYING WITH FAILURE – LIVERPOOL, UK

THIS COURSE IS FULL- WAITING LIST ONLY 16-17 MAY, 2026 With Vivian Gladwell and John Lawlor HOW TO GO FROM BAD TO WORSE Dive into a world where mistakes become springboards for exploring and honing your clowning skills. In this workshop, you’ll learn to transform your slip-ups into a source of spontaneity and authenticity, turning every unexpected moment into an opportunity for expressio...
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EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED – CLOWN 2 – near Leuven, Belgium

with Vivian Gladwell and An Valenteyn 7th to 12th June 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 empha...
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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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A MASTERCLASS – Setting your clown free – Peredur Centre, East Grinstead, UK

THIS COURSE IS FULL - WAITING LIST ONLY 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 a...
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CLOWN AND VOICE – Peredur Centre- UK

THIS COURSE IS FULL - WAITING LIST ONLY With David Goldsworthy and Vivian Gladwell Sunday 05 July - Friday 10 July 2026 "An essential course for grounding your experience of clowning" Through our voice, we deepen our clown's emotional commitment to life and we create out of thin air the images and stories that make up our identity and our lives. Join us on this powerful journey of d...
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