Red Nose Clown Workshop
Unleash your ridiculous self
Intro to Clown & Making a Clown Show
Besides a red nose theatre clown you will during this workshop discover your unique and individual comedy.
We discover the clown through the analysis, amplification and play of the actor and how she/he takes the physical and emotional space naturally.
While focusing on how to be build a clown with specific body language, attitudes, emotions rhythm, voice, and costume we also learn how to be vulnerable, make misstakes and laugh at oneself.
Neutral Mask and Performing Neutrally
Alfredo Iriarte’s Mask-making Workshop 2019
THREE PEDAGOGIC APPROACHES TO NEUTRALITY AND NEUTRAL MASKS
WITH
ELLIE NIXON, AMY RUSSELL AND NORMAN TAYLOR
I am facing the sea, watching it, breathing it. My breath moulds itself to the movement of the waves and gradually the picture shifts as I myself become the sea.
Jacques Lecoq
“Neutrality” is not a neutral topic…
Be it a state of physical preparedness, of spiritual receptiveness, or simply of calmed nerves, the notion that a performer should achieve a pre-performative state in order to transform into the character, is as old as theatre itself. However when this state is qualified as "neutrality", it becomes as difficult to define for the actor as it is for the politician - it depends on the observer's point of view. Moreover, what might be the politics of suspending individual identity? Arguably, the identity of the individual is as relevant on the stage as on the street, and theatre pedagogues may find themselves in confusion and difficulty when they teach “neutrality” to performers whose individual identity has become an inseparable aspect of their success.
Developing the neutral mask from Copeau’s “noble mask”, Lecoq suggested that the neutral mask is the persona of our common humanity. Initially, however, Suzanne Bing simply covered the actor’s face - encouraging them to express with their bodies instead. Neutrality, rather than an essential or perhaps ideal identity, could also be considered as imaginative and expressive capacity. What might the use of a neutral mask be in that case?
In our three-week Pedagogic Intensive, Amy Russell, Ellie Nixon, and Norman Taylor will guide their own approaches to the theme of neutrality and the use of neutral masks. Time will be set aside for pedagogic discussions and a pedagogic practicum every week, so that those who wish to teach using neutral masks, and indeed those who teach with reference to a different pre-performance practice - such as Alexander Technique or Feldenkrais - are assisted and affirmed in their own pedagogic stance.
Are we tourists in this world or do we live here
A Public talk and Demonstration
with Co-Directors Norman Taylor and Amy Russell
- a guided visit to the ordinary everyday work and the extraordinary of the artists and actors.
Saturday September 10th 7-9pm
Saturday September 10th 7-9pm
Norman (see bio below) will give us a guided visit to the ordinary everyday and the extraordinary work of artists and actors.
Can we see what we are looking at?
Are we tourists or do we live here?
We all share the same verbs. We all live the same lives. We are all the same.....before we become different. But how different are we and how are we different?
Can we see what we are looking at?
with NORMAN TAYLOR
Norman taught alongside Lecoq at the École Lecoq for almost 20 years. He is one of the few remaining first-generation Master Teachers of this school and is an authentic holder of this powerful pedagogic lineage.
Amy (see bio below) will be presenting "Theatres of Space" - her research on the relationship between Jacques Lecoq’s theatre pedagogy and postmodern spatial theories. Lecoq proposes that “everything moves” – not only human bodies, but also the spaces they inhabit.
Amy’s research looks at these lived spaces as theatrical forms, or “territories”, and takes this insight one step further: our lived environments shape us by setting the stage, casting the roles, and writing the script. We live in and live out – “theatres of space”.
Theatres of Space
with AMY RUSSELL
She was a pedagogic student of M. Lecoq in 1997-98, and subsequently created a complete training based on this pedagogy under the auspices of Naropa University, the Naropa MFA in Actor Created Physical Theatre, and was Chair of MFA until 2010. She was Pedagogic Co-Founder of the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) in 2003, and lead teacher at this school in London and Berlin until 2017. She has taught workshops and trainings internationally, independently and for theatre schools and universities.
Random ARTist House
Calling all LOCAL PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS - An Artist Collective/Residency/Space
Supporting the artist within
Discover an individualised contemplative practice using what you have right in front of you.
Julkalendern SOS Lucka 2
Under november i år har barn och ungdomar fått skicka in texter till ScenKonstellationen på temat hållbarhet, klimatkris och vår planets framtid. Av dessa texter gör vi nu en julkalender bestående av 24 unika installationer i ett skyltfönster på Holmgatan i Falun. Kom och titta och ta del av tankar och uppmaningar om klimatkrisen och vår hållbara framtid!
SOS Julkalendern
INSTALLATIONS TEATER
Under november i år har barn och ungdomar fått skicka in texter till ScenKonstellationen på temat hållbarhet, klimatkris och vår planets framtid. Av dessa texter gör vi nu en julkalender bestående av 24 unika installationer i ett skyltfönster på Holmgatan i Falun. Kom och titta och ta del av tankar och uppmaningar om klimatkrisen och vår hållbara framtid!
Supporting the artist within
Discover an individualised contemplative practice using what you have right in front of you.