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The Bristol Clown School is delighted to be hosting theatre maker, performer & teacher, Peta Lily with her ground-breaking Clown and Dark Clown workshop."Fabulous journey, discovering emotion, comedy and more."
"Important, brave and powerful work."
"Practical, wide-ranging exercises to explore Clown and Dark Clown in a safe environment. I felt fearless."
"Jam-packed with technical gems to build on my clown stage presence."
THE WORKSHOP:
The Clown & Dark Clown course starts with learning Dark Clown at a basic level. In Clown mode, you'll focus on playfulness and expression, developing the comedy skills needed for Dark Clown. You'll learn the goals, principles, and values of this approach while having lots of fun. Dark Clown allows you to explore darker emotions and themes, enhancing your emotional range, timing, and audience awareness.
The Dark Clown Scenarios are where performance potential and play with the work come to life. Scenarios include: Competition Crying, Horror Is, Eco Horror, Body Horror, The Beloved, Consumer Guilt, For Her, Makeup Rabbits and more ...
HOW DARK CLOWN WORKS:
The skills of comedy craft can be employed to bring laughter and lightness to challenging subjects. Lily's Clown & Dark Clown work retains respect for the subject matter and provides a user-friendly way to represent Marginalised Emotions - creating an intriguing and enriching experience for performer and audience alike. Lily's unique approach makes widening the range of the clown's expression safe and invigorating.
Please read these FAQs on Peta Lily's website. They are mandatory reading before you apply. https://www.petalily.com/faqs-for-the-clown--dark-clown-course.html
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DATES & TIMES:
Saturday 30th November & Sunday 1st December
10am - 5pm
LOCATION:
St Werburghs, Bristol
APPLICATION & INVESTMENT:
To apply please fill in this form by Friday 15 November 2024:
https://forms.gle/tH2hmFnS1ciguLzj6
Once invited; the course investment is:
£200 - Supporter/ High earner
£180 - Full Price
£160 - Concession (low/no income, student)
EARLYBIRD DEAL: get £20 off if you pay before 4 November
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WHO IS THIS FOR:
Almost anyone. Participants' background experience can vary – past participants include circus performers, improvisers, puppeteers, physical theatre practitioners, cabaret performers, comedians. Some have also been therapists, theatre directors, stage designers, writers, lawyers, IT consultants and once, a tree surgeon.
The work can be challenging. Peta Lily creates a safe container where the work and the necessary skills are introduced carefully and respectfully.
To support this, participants need to commit to being punctual and present for all hours of the course.
Also be aware the prime aim of the work is performance-based and not therapeutic and participants must take responsibility for their own well-being.
"Gave me the courage to engage with my clown state, and to use the skills it employs to step into darker, more complex comedy/drama territory."
Zoe Bouras, Theatre Maker
"Gives insights into dealing with serious and occasionally disturbing subjects – and delivering with humour."
Course Participant
"Dark Clown showed me how to find the comic rhythm in tragic feelings. The work explores the point where the deepest pain meets lunacy and eventually freedom. The course gave me a lot of new tools for my professional work as an actress."
Sandra Lange, Actress
ABOUT PETA LILY:
Peta Lily is a director, performer, theatre maker and teacher who uses physical theatre and acting techniques to direct plays and devise theatre pieces in the UK and overseas. She was one of the leading artists of the Physical Theatre movement in the 80’s/90’s and has a long career as a solo performer. She also works as a movement director and teaches at RADA and RCSSD. Contributor to ‘Mime into Physical Theatre: A UK Cultural History 1970–2000’ complied by Mark Evans and Simon Murray, Routledge. Contributor to ‘Notes on Creation’ – a resource book on Devising compiled by Oli Pinchbeck and Declan Mee of Katapult, Berlin, supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste.
https://www.petalily.com/
You can also read more about Peta and this work on her blog www.petalily.com/clown-dark-clown-theatre-practice-blog
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Werburghs, 109 Mina Road, Bristol, BS2 9YD, United Kingdom,Bristol, United Kingdom
