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Lead teacher: Kimberley TwinerTypically held across 5 days I am running the Somatic Clown Journey across 5 weeks!
The Somatic Clown Journey is a clown process created by Giovanni Fusetti. It is one that I wholeheartedly love to teach! So welcome welcome welcome! We will find your clown state by working with… YOU. Your body is already wonderfully stupid and we will go hunting to find what is already there to amplify your natural stupidity. This amplification of stupidity will lay the bones of play for your ‘clown form’ or ‘clown mask’.
Our clown journey will be a process of awareness building and attunement of play. There are two key processes of learning in this course 1) discovering your clown form to make comic work and 2) physical theatre skills training from the Fusetti-Lecoq lineage.
Across the five days/five weeks we will cover the fundamentals of performing in the clown state:
-The performers eyes, breath and body engagement
-The technique of the red mask
-Relationship with the audience, full eye contact
-Personal movement analysis
-Embodied amplification as your clown mask emerges
-Finding voice
-Finding costume
-Techniques of improvising with solo
-Techniques of improvising in duos
-The body-logic and comic-logic of how the clown forms play together
-How to return to improvised work and do it again
-Performers will receive feedback throughout the process
Clown work is mask work. Mask work is embodied play underpinned by a clear foundation of technique. Humans have been putting on masks and telling stories for a very long time. These 5 days will invite you to find a clown form. It will be a very clear and urgent mask for comedy, storytelling and anything else it dreams up!
This course is in line with ‘The Somatic Clown Journey’ a pedagogic process devised and refined by Giovanni Fusetti. Giovanni has been my main teacher since 2017. As a performer I have studied many theatrical territories under his tutelage. I am one of three Australians to have completed ‘An Advanced Training in the Pedagogy of Movement Theatre’ with him in 2019. Since then I have accumulated 500+ hours in the role of pedagogic assistant with Giovanni Fusetti. My practice has been concretized in the Lecoq lineage of mask, mime and movement theatre.
Tuesdays
9.30am - 4.30pm
April 29th, May 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th
**It is compulsory to attend all classes as this is a strict learning continuum aka one class leads into the next.
Venue: Temple Park Senior Citizens Centre, 24 Gray St, Brunswick
Prices
Super Early Bird Price (Full payment due by April 8th): $500.00
Normal Price: $600.00
Late Bird Price (If paid after April 22nd): $700.00
**The fee contains a non-refundable deposit of $200.00 which is required within 3 days of being accepted into the course. The deposit secures your position in the course.
Minimum participants: 8
Maximum participants: 12
**Minimum number of participants must be enrolled by April 15th for the workshop to go ahead.
APPLICATION PROCESS
To apply please send a letter of motivation to Kimberley Twiner. Please do not use AI to generate your letter, this is not a job application, it is not about you ‘looking good’ it is about you expressing your drives, motivations, urgencies and poetry.
In your letter please address:
Your existing physical theatre practice
Why clown? Why now?
Any other driving provocations or inspirations that pull you towards this work.
Please forward applications and questions to Kimberley Twiner [email protected] or call on 0468664466.
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Temple Park Senior Citizens Centre, Brunswick, Australia
