The Clown – The Art of Being Ridiculous – Workshop 13 November – 13 December 2023 SOLD OUT |
The Clown – The Art of Being Ridiculous
13 November – 13 December 2023
SOLD OUT
Monday-Saturday / 15.00-20.30 ( including daily devising time )
This 4-and-a-half-week workshop for advanced practitioners with extensive experience in devising will enlist help from the clown, the shaman and the fool to playfully explore the liminal and take bold leaps into the unknown.
How can we be spontaneous in our creativity and surrender to the unbridled freedom of failure? In this laboratory space we will explore how to bring structure to chaos and play with the wild pleasure which can be found within form. Participants will explore their virtuosity in whatever skill they choose to bring/learn/invent – from twerking to trombone – embracing our idiosyncrasies to trust in the rhythm and logic of the ridiculous.
By harnessing the embodied poetry of the fool in both group and solo work, we will explore what needs to be created to meet the moment – bringing light into the darkness within.
The workshop will consist of approximately three weeks’ intensive teaching and one week of rehearsal and devising/feedback sessions – and will conclude with a presentation of the participants devised projects.
Workshop Facilitators
Rachel Karafistan
Rachel is a British performer, teacher, academic and director with over 25 years of experience of working professionally as a theatre maker. She is the founder of Cosmino Productions (www.cosmino.org) which she runs with her partner and long term Blue Man, Kuba Pierzchalski.
Rachel is currently touring her latest solo performance Dreams Die Hard, which was inspired by the wartime diary of her Grandmother. Rachel trained with Odin Teatret, Philippe Gaulier and Frankie Armstrong and worked as an actor with internationally acclaimed Polish company, Teatr Biuro Podróży. As a director she has created performances with, among others, Greenwich Theatre, Northampton & Leeds Universities and the State Theatre of Salzburg. She is currently an External Examiner at East 15 Acting School in the UK. In 2001 she completed her PhD research into shamanic dimensions within contemporary theatre practice and has offered ‘From the Shaman to the Actor’ workshops often in collaboration with renowned author, Brian Bates. Rachel is relieved that after so many years of making theatre, it is still the greatest thrill imaginable.
Michelle Madsen
Michelle Madsen is an Argentine/Danish artist with a background in poetry, theatre and
investigative journalism.
Michelle holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford and a postgraduate certification in physical and devised theatre at LISPA (Arthaus) in Berlin. Her work investigates the disruption of prevailing mythologies through embodied play, with a focus on female-centred/queer narratives. She is co-director of award-winning theatre company, Bait (Cronivision, Kill The Princess) and is developing her own pedagogy based on integral movement (Axis Syllabus), clown (Pochinko/Clown Through Mask) and poetics. Her journalistic work has been broadcast on the BBC and she is co-host of Bears at a Picnic (Resonance FM). She is a guest lecturer/associate artist at City University and the University of Greenwich and is based in Berlin where she is completing a three-year cycle in Integral Movement and Performance Practice at the Thomas Prattki Centre.
www.baittheatre.com
Patrick Soul
Patrick is a multi-instrumentalist with over 25 years of experience both performing and writing in many different styles of music.
He has a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and sang for seven years with the London Vocal Project, performing with them at London’s best jazz clubs as well as at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. Since 2008 Patrick has been encouraging and assisting theatre students at arthaus.berlin / LISPA to playfully explore and expand the musical possibilities available to them, individually and in the group, through mindful listening, rhythm games and improvisation. Recently he graduated as a certified teacher of the UNFOLD Method of movement and awareness.
He also composes electronic and acoustic music, with a particular interest in the layering of
patterns, additive and subtractive process music, free improvisation and instant composition.
www.patricksoul.com
Fees and application
Tuition Fees
980,00 Euro
Where
Eden***** Studios, Breite Str. 43, 13187 BERLIN
Application
Please contact the school for details of how to apply :
The Clown – The Art of Being Ridiculous
13 November – 13 December 2023
Workshop Details
13 November – 13 December 2023
Monday-Saturday / 15.00-20.30 ( including daily devising time )
SOLD OUT
This 4-and-a-half-week workshop for advanced practitioners with extensive experience in devising will enlist help from the clown, the shaman and the fool to playfully explore the liminal and take bold leaps into the unknown.
How can we be spontaneous in our creativity and surrender to the unbridled freedom of failure? In this laboratory space we will explore how to bring structure to chaos and play with the wild pleasure which can be found within form. Participants will explore their virtuosity in whatever skill they choose to bring/learn/invent – from twerking to trombone – embracing our idiosyncrasies to trust in the rhythm and logic of the ridiculous.
By harnessing the embodied poetry of the fool in both group and solo work, we will explore what needs to be created to meet the moment – bringing light into the darkness within.
The workshop will consist of approximately three weeks’ intensive teaching and one week of rehearsal and devising/feedback sessions – and will conclude with a presentation of the participants devised projects.
Workshop Facilitators
Rachel Karafistan
Rachel is a British performer, teacher, academic and director with over 25 years of experience of working professionally as a theatre maker. She is the founder of Cosmino Productions (www.cosmino.org) which she runs with her partner and long term Blue Man, Kuba Pierzchalski.
Rachel is currently touring her latest solo performance Dreams Die Hard, which was inspired by the wartime diary of her Grandmother. Rachel trained with Odin Teatret, Philippe Gaulier and Frankie Armstrong and worked as an actor with internationally acclaimed Polish company, Teatr Biuro Podróży. As a director she has created performances with, among others, Greenwich Theatre, Northampton & Leeds Universities and the State Theatre of Salzburg. She is currently an External Examiner at East 15 Acting School in the UK. In 2001 she completed her PhD research into shamanic dimensions within contemporary theatre practice and has offered ‘From the Shaman to the Actor’ workshops often in collaboration with renowned author, Brian Bates. Rachel is relieved that after so many years of making theatre, it is still the greatest thrill imaginable.
Michelle Madsen
Michelle Madsen is an Argentine/Danish artist with a background in poetry, theatre and
investigative journalism.
Michelle holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford and a postgraduate certification in physical and devised theatre at LISPA (Arthaus) in Berlin. Her work investigates the disruption of prevailing mythologies through embodied play, with a focus on female-centred/queer narratives. She is co-director of award-winning theatre company, Bait (Cronivision, Kill The Princess) and is developing her own pedagogy based on integral movement (Axis Syllabus), clown (Pochinko/Clown Through Mask) and poetics. Her journalistic work has been broadcast on the BBC and she is co-host of Bears at a Picnic (Resonance FM). She is a guest lecturer/associate artist at City University and the University of Greenwich and is based in Berlin where she is completing a three-year cycle in Integral Movement and Performance Practice at the Thomas Prattki Centre.
www.baittheatre.com
Patrick Soul
Patrick is a multi-instrumentalist with over 25 years of experience both performing and writing in many different styles of music.
He has a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and sang for seven years with the London Vocal Project, performing with them at London’s best jazz clubs as well as at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. Since 2008 Patrick has been encouraging and assisting theatre students at arthaus.berlin / LISPA to playfully explore and expand the musical possibilities available to them, individually and in the group, through mindful listening, rhythm games and improvisation. Recently he graduated as a certified teacher of the UNFOLD Method of movement and awareness.
He also composes electronic and acoustic music, with a particular interest in the layering of
patterns, additive and subtractive process music, free improvisation and instant composition.
www.patricksoul.com
Fees and Application
Tuition Fees
980,00 Euro
Where
Eden***** Studios, Breite Str. 43, 13187 BERLIN
Application
Please contact the school for details of how to apply :