The Clown State - Sydney

Service Description

This two-day workshop aims to uncover what makes you uniquely funny, courageous, and sublime by exploring the CLOWN STATE! This is a deep dive into our own poetic comedy, exploring the great mystery of laughter. Exercises will be geared toward expanding greater sensitivity and awareness of our emotional life, to amplify our sense of personal stupidity when entering the clown state of play with an audience. We will be exploring: • The Red Nose as a mask to reveal our clown state • Your individual clown state, voice, physicality, and pleasure to play • Breath as a form of contacting an audience and our emotional life • Emotional awareness and contact with the emotional body of the actor • Developing comedic material from the clown state • The relationship between clowns and audience through complicité Exercises will be geared towards expanding your spontaneity and playfulness while widening the scope of your imagination and creativity. Open to performers with an introductory training to clown who want to discover how to bring more authenticity to their work, and develop deeper connection to their scene partner and audience. DATES: Saturday 19th, and Sunday 20th of August 2023. 10 am-5 pm Price includes GST

Cancellation Policy

REFUND POLICY: 24 hours notice is required for all Private Session bookings. Fail to notify within this time may result in a full fee charged. The course fees are due two (2) weeks prior to course commencement. The inability to pay fees by this time may result in your place being given to the next person on the list. Refunds for course cancellation are available until 14 days before course commencement. Cancellation up until 10 days prior to course commencement may be applied to a course credit, which can be transferred for courses or private training within 12 months of the cancellation. No refunds or credits are available from days prior to course commencement, and after the course has commenced. If for any reason you cannot attend the entire course, there is no refund for missed hours or classes. Please organise your schedule so that you do not miss a precious moment of our courses (and let us know in advance if this is the case). We look forward to seeing you very soon!

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