PLAY AND PERFORMANCE – A new course at EMERSON COLLEGE, UK
Sunday August 13, 2023 - Friday August 18, 2023
Starts 18:15 on first day - Finishes 14:30 on last day
with Vivian Gladwell and Ali Stockford
The week will consist of 3 evening performances in front of an audience (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).
Each day we will review and work through some of the issues that came up during the performance. We will gradually develop our listening and sensitivity to the audience in order to reveal new insights and learning from the impros.
This course is a great way to consolidate and further your clown improvisation performance experience and is a stand alone or follow-up workshop to the Towards Performance course. The course is also a useful springboard for anyone interested in joining our monthly evening performances at Emerson for 2023.
Clown level 1 is a pre-requisite for this course.
Facilitators:
Vivian Gladwell
Vivian is the founder and director of Nose to Nose and has given hundreds of workshops around the world. He lives both in the UK and France where he started clowning in 1978. He speaks French and English fluently.
Vivian began teaching in 1988 as part of the Lifeways Festival at Emerson College – UK. He trained as a facilitator with theBataclown in 1990 and joined their team in 1991 also working as a modern day Court Jester (Clownanalyst).
He created Nose to Nose UK in 1990, Nose to Nose of North America in 2006 and Fool View, the Social Clowning group and has trained facilitators in the UK, the USA, Germany and Italy – view history.
He continues his role as ambassador for the work by researching the applications of clowning in the context of teacher training, medicine, conflict management, ecology and intercultural work in many countries (South Africa, USA, Senegal, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, Italy, Germany, Norway…)
He holds clowning as a social playground for exploring our humanity.
Ali Stockford
Ali participated in her first Nose to Nose workshop in 2000 and fell in love with the work. Since training as a facilitator she has worked with Nose to Nose for over 5 years . She holds this work in high esteem as a perfect grounding for all creative work and the bigger picture of trusting ourselves and life. Alison is a qualified and experienced teacher of over 25 years having delivered Performing Arts workshops in mainstream and special schools and older peoples settings. Dancing since the age of four she is drawn to facilitating how others explore the dimension of movement in their clown.
Performing experience includes: tap dancing and comedy in café-théâtre with Les Amuses Gueules Lille, France; Street Theatre and Theatre in Education with Inside Out Theatre Company, Hastings. In recent work for Nose to Nose Ali has presented trainings for the Giggle Doctors – Theodora Foundation and for Lis’n Tell Speech and Language Practitioners, UK. Ali speaks both English and French.
Course fee: £475 – Tuition only
Deposit – £180
Accommodation and meals:
To book your accommodation and meals at Emerson go to To book your accommodation and meals at Emerson go to https://emerson.org.uk/event/play-and-performance/
To contact Emerson email bookings@emerson.org.uk
Date and times:
The course begins Sunday – 18h15 (with supper)
Ends Friday – after lunch – 14h30
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