Next Workshop: Jan/Feb 2009.
Based on the pioneering work of Richard Pochinko, this process synthesizes Native American and European clowning traditions to guide you in the discovery of clown. Participants are taken on a journey exploring colour, innocence and experience. Six clay masks are made which create a personal mythology. As they are worn and explored various characters emerge which form and define your clown.
We need to build a clown who speaks to today, that is not just a collection of gags, but an archetype that reveals the essence of the performer. This is clown that gives us a larger sense of the divine in each of us, that celebrates our humanness, our animalness, and the times that we can touch each other in a moment of laughter.
Next Workshop: April 2008 (dates to be confirmed)
This is an expansion and continued exploration of the six masks you created in Clown Through Mask. In this course, you will be working with other clowns on stage and developing relationships based on the archetypes of the ultimate manipulator, the ultimate victim and the composites that lie between these two extremes. We will also be exploring the voice and the silences in between sounds. This is a study into the extreme nature of your clown. Clown Through Mask in a pre-requisite.