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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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WITH PAUL MATTHEWS AND VIVIAN GLADWELL £470 - includes tuition, accommodation AND all meals 6 day residential - exploring language & silence Taught in English 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 the ...
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5 day residential - taught in English and Italian. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course offers the opportunity for six English speaking participants (previously from Germany, UK and the US) to join six Italian participants to explore and celebrate their cultural differences through clowning. Expect good food, human warmth, laughter and late nights. The playfulness and authenticity of clowning offe...
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Casamance, South Senegal, West Africa Join us for this pioneering course in Senegal and experience West African culture, music and dance. A 9-day workshop (excluding Christmas day) to cultivate links with the local culture through performance in the local village or school. Held on the seafront in lush Casamance in southern Senegal, between rice fields and the beach. Our workshop space is a ro...
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with Vivian Gladwell and Angela Hopkins Course run 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 fears that block ...
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WITH ALI BOWLER 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 clown...
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WITH ALI BOWLER 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 clown...
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with Vivian Gladwell and Ali Bowler 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 present...
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