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Fools Proof: Summer Clown Camp for Adults (Ages 18+)NOTE: This retreat will be limited to 16 participants. Apply early to avoid the utter despair of missing out!
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Register here: https://forms.gle/bEiLtotxaF9PoPAw8
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Full Event Details: https://www.rhizomesprings.com/events/foolsproof2026
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Through a series of experiential awareness building exercises, led by Nayana Fielkov, we will cultivate curiosity, explore emotional and expressive range, loosen our perceptions, and practice the bravery of sharing our willingness and openness. By following the body and our impulses, we can be in delight with the discovery of the moment. We will culminate our 5 days together in a performance.
What’s so funny?!?!
WE ARE!!
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Expand yourself by developing play and personal presence onstage and in everyday life!
This retreat is perfect for performers and non-performers, dancers, actors, musicians, storytellers, and anyone interested in building their personal presence and sensory awareness in performance and everyday life!
It is an opportunity to bring more awareness to the subtly of our senses, awakening to our environment with attuned aliveness and humour.
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DATES
July 1st - 5th, 2026
Arrival Day: July 1st (welcome, set up camp) 2-4:00pm
Performance Day: July 5th (performance, celebration dinner, departure)
*Departure: participants have the option of leaving Sunday evening or staying over night and leaving Monday by noon.
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IN THIS CLOWN IMMERSION WE WILL:
*Laugh A LOT
*Practice presence-ing to the room, the space, and each-other with alive engagement to expand the detail of humour
*Practice emotional range in order to widen possibilities of freedom with agency
*Practice simplicity to find availability, honesty and detail in what is funny
*Explore extension of impulse to become familiar with the edges of what is possible
*Work with tempo, rhythm, space, tensegrity, shape, and form to gain agency in the body as a tool
*Work with Experience and Innocence and where they meet
*Discover by witnessing and practicing what generates laughter
*Widen tools and possibilities for generating content and inspiration
*Generate content and build "turns" to perform in a public performance as the "final exercise"
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This retreat is perfect for performers and non-performers, dancers, actors, musicians, storytellers, and anyone interested in building their personal presence and sensory awareness in performance and everyday life!
Taught in English with Gibberish subtitles.
"If I were a fool, I'd know exactly what to do"
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About the Teacher: Nayana Fielkov
Nayana Fielkov is a Canadian based performing artist dedicated to the work of play. She brings together the mediums of clown, dance, mask and physical comedy. Nayana is co-creator and performer in multi-award winning shows Falling Awake, Hotel Vortruba , A Can of Worms, UNDERBELLY, Habitats, PRESTO!, Out Of Time, and Same Same Different. She is a founding member of ensemble Theatre/Clown troupes the Poupon Parade, and The Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret. Nayana brings her experience from the stage, the studio, from life, collaborations, studies, and from her life long somatic inquiries.
Nayana has studied with : David MacMurray Smith, Deanna Fleysher, John Turner, Jon Davison, Jan Henderson, Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ruth Zaporah and many more. She is currently in studies with Giovanni Fusetti. Nayana has been teaching for over a decade both internationally and throughout Canada.
nayanafielkov.ca
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TESTIMONIALS
“I genuinely cannot speak highly enough of working with Nayana. What she creates is more than just clowning — it is a container through which you can see your life and the world in a new way (which includes a lot of laughing). If you’re on the fence about doing this workshop, I encourage anyone and everyone to take the leap. You won’t regret it.”
-Albert Strasser
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"I felt seen, safe, and supported. I found her to be flexible,
kind, honest, and a master of her craft."
-Megan Hyslop PHD
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"It was exciting to see her passion and experience transfer into meaningful and direct lessons and opportunities.
Nayana was able to facilitate very strong and playful solo, small group and ensemble work built on awareness, listening and responsiveness."
Jason Donaldson Gulf Islands School of performing arts
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“Nayana has the super power to interrupt your imaginary world without shutting you down. She can see the world you're in, or trying to get to, and give the right prompts to help you delve deeper into it and share it with others”.
Doreanna -Student
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“Nayana listens so well to the attendees and navigates different backgrounds, approaches, wants and needs calmly and skillfully. She demonstrates the techniques with an immediate ease that demonstrates a real depth of experience. She makes people feel comfortable enough to try things beyond their boundary without pushing anyone over the edge. It was a pleasure to learn from her in the space she created.”
Rob Teszka - Magician/Student
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Full Event Details here: https://www.rhizomesprings.com/events/foolsproof2026
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Mount Tuam, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada, British Columbia
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