Discover Your Clown : Discover Yourself

From : October 16, 2015

To : October 18, 2015

Start time : -

End time : -

Theatre Group : Acting School Of India

Faculty :

Venue : Acting School Of India

These workshops is designed by Acting School Of India, Mumbai to build upon core areas of acting : Movement, Voice and the development of strong performance through understanding dramatic texts.

"DISCOVER YOUR CLOWN"

This workshop will help you to Unmask your inner-self. We will help you to challenge your own self-image, destabilize it, disentangle it to assert a positive aspect of your sinister side by being a clown. You will find eternal joy and will be able to share it with your immediate friends and family.

In our workshops we have people from a wide range of professional and social backgrounds, of all ages, with or without previous experience of the theatre.

Without doubt, clowns are in vogue in our modern society, perhaps because their eternal optimism in the face of failure, or their naïve way of living life to the full counterbalances neatly the dominant value system of a society that praises efficiency, success, achievement and productivity.

Clowning as we practise it consists of improvisations on a stage and as such is a form of theatrical expression. Drama games, mask work, psychodrama or drama-therapy are all various forms of theatrical expression. For us however, the clown is more than a character or a convention within the theatre. The clown represents a vehicle or catalyst that facilitates the theatrical expression of the imagination. This I shall now explain with reference to the role of the "imagination" in clowning.

Though we recognise our work has therapeutic effects, we do not define it as a therapeutic activity but rather as a theatrical activity within which the clown - as mediator - is at the service of those who wish to "find themselves" on stage (in both senses of the word). The role of the clown as mediator comes from using the clown's nose which as a mask unmasks our inner self. To bring our clown to life requires that we bring ourselves and our "imagination" into play. This defines our approach to the clown - it is the imagination in action. Or as Henry Miller says: The poet in action.

With the red nose, actors take on, shell-like, the clothes and the objects which represent the emerging outer signs of another life and which begin to structure the actor's body to play its story .... and while all this is going on the actors seek to empty their mind before coming on stage ... and, like the tide, they withdraw to leave space to that unknown which they will meet and bring to life

Theatre Workshop Fees : 3500

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