RED NOSE MASK - Advanced Training
Devised work and creation of original clown scenes
February 4th trough April 8th 2011
Chicago, IL
Available to selected students
with previous clown training with Paola
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Deeply rooted in physical theatre-based training, this course proposes an intensive training in the Clown State, as a specific theatre style.
Poetic, comical and very personal, the clown is not a character but a state-of-being, in which the performers consciously explores their personal weaknesses, contradictions and naivety, transforming them into the ‘poetry for the stage’.
Work begins with the comic state that leads to a shared experience of state-of-being with the self and the audience; within this journey is an examination of clown relations: hierarchy, families, levels of intelligence, the research on the clown body, voice, costume, as well as exploration of unique specialty skills with objects, music and singing, literature, dance, juggling and acrobatics; all with the aim to devise clown numbers.
Fundamental theatre skills explored: movement technique and analysis, ‘designed-improvisational’ performance, writing, directing, dynamics of the ensemble and understanding transposition for the stage, street or ring.
SCHEDULE
Friday - 10am to 1pm
February: 4-11-18-25th
March: 4-11-18-25th
April: 1-8th
LOCATION
Chicago - TBD
$ 40 each week (10 weeks total)
TO REGISTER
BY INVITATION ONLY
