Events | Nose to Nose – UK

CLOWN AND VOICE

"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 discovery. The group is limited to 12. ALL WELCOMED Facilitators: David Goldsworthy David Goldsworthy joined ROY HART i...
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THE INNER TEACHER – Weaving Clowning and Reflective Practices

With Penny Williamson and Vivian Gladwell This workshop is designed to explore the question: How do I bring the playfulness and lightness of the clown into my own life and work as a leader, teacher, human being? The Nose to Nose approach and the Circle of Trust work of Parker Palmer are both rooted in the belief that each of us has our own inner teacher to discern our way in the world. Through...
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CLOWN AND CREATIVE DANCE

A five-day Clown Improvisation and Creative Dance workshop to wake up our movement imagination and discover the clown in motion. A Clown workshop in which you will find yourself dancing. DESCRIPTION Do you feel a bit off balance? Do you bump into yourself? Do you trip over your own feet? How can we trust the messages our body is sending? When we notice and become curious of our own movements: ...
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EXPLORING THE POETRY OF ACTION – Callan – IRELAND

Clown level 1 & 2 with Vivian Gladwell and Piotr Bujak This course offers an exploration of clowning with a focus on voice, silence, musicality, rhythm, movement and space. Beginners and confirmed clowns are welcomed. The purpose of the week is to look at ways in which we can free ourselves from speaking too much when we are on stage. For this we need to trust our voices and our physical bod...
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COURAGE TO BE – Clown Level 1 – a 6-day residential course

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 prese...
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EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED – Clown 2 – a 6-day residential course

with Vivian Gladwell and Ali Bowler This course offers further practice of clowning with the focus on structure and relationship (such as the Elder-Younger structure). At this level come 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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THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTION – Clown 3 – a 6-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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CLOWNING AT LIFEWAYS – FOREST ROW – UK

What is Lifeways? Lifeways is an annual event, a week long experience of workshops, activities and music, suitable for the whole family. People of all ages explore, create, and dream in a variety of sessions throughout the week (see the brochure for more details). Children engage in a variety of experiences including clay work, food preparation, painting, and cooperative games with their gro...
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COURAGE TO BE – Clown Level 1 – a 6-day residential course

with Vivian Gladwell and Angela Hopkins 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 p...
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