The Brick Theater, Inc. presents

Working on Your Own Clown

A coaching workshop for clowns

taught by GIOVANNI FUSETTI

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Clown is about comic poetry: funny and touching, essential and rigorous. It's a dive into the mystery of laughter. It's a very personal comic form, based on a unique comic persona that becomes a universal comic form. There are as many clowns as there are human beings: they can all make the audience laugh but they are not in the same comic world. In order to create and write for one's own clown one needs to understand what is its comic core. Is it based on actions, or accidents, emotions, absurd, mocking, skills, ...? This workshop is specifically devised to give participants tools to work on their own material: both on their clown persona and on their numbers.

Participants will bring their clown and one existing solo number, routine or solo project, finished of unfinished. They will present their clown and a short piece (max. 5 min), and this will be the basis for a coaching session that will focus on the three different hats that the clown-creator needs to wear:

THE PERFORMER

The comic persona, the comic core, the contact with the audience, amplification and articulation of movement, emotional awareness and presence.

THE DIRECTOR

Playing with space; Rhythm: pace and variations; the structure of a number: entrance, presentation, development and variations, crescendo, climax, finale, exit.

THE WRITER

Understanding a clown's potential and weakness, the choice of themes and their development, the mask and countermask of the clown, the use of the actor's skills (music, singing, acrobatics, juggling, dance and unusual or unique skills).

Performing participants (10 maximum): their performing material will be presented in the coaching session

Observing participants: they will assist the workshop as audience members.

SCHEDULE:

Saturday, October 20^th and 21^st, 2007

9 am to 1 (lunch break) and 2 to 4 pm

Cost $300 

THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL. To place your name on the wait list, email your name and the name of the class to waitlist@bricktheater.com.

To join the class as an Observer for $40.00, click below.

Giovanni Fusetti was a student, pedagogical assistant and improvisation teacher at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. He co-founded and served as pedagogical director of KIKLOS International School of Theatre Creation in Padua, Italy, and is now developing the school's new form: HELIKOS. Giovanni has taught and collaborated internationally with theatre companies, schools and universities such as Scuola di Teatro a l'Avogaria (Venice), The University of London, Rosegarden Theatre House (Norway), Naropa University (Boulder, CO), Centre Generation Tao (Paris), and LISPA: London International School of Performing Arts (London). He is visiting teacher at Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre (Blue Lake, CA) and has taught THE RED NOSE workshops throughout the US in collaboration with TigerLion Works (Minneapolis), Mugwumpin (San Francisco), Octopus League (Boulder), and the Boulder Fringe Festival. Giovanni's 20 years of pedagogical research includes training in Theatre in Education, Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, Wutao and Process Work. His pedagogy integrates physical theatre with different practices of physical and emotional awareness. Please visit www.giovannifusetti.com

Workshop to be held at

Triskelion Arts

118 N. 11th St., 3rd Fl.

Brooklyn, NY 11211

www.triskelionarts.org for directions

For more information, please contact The Brick at info@bricktheater.com.