Being Before Doing - a Workshop with Pedro Fabião
Schedule
Sat Jun 01 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Jun 02 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Lisbon | Lisbon, LI
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"Being Before Doing"Clowning in Connection between Inside and Outside
by Pedro Fabião
"For me, Clown in its essence is an altered body/mind state of full connection, curiosity, authenticity, playfulness, generous expression and transformation. It's not a technique, a method, light entertainment or rational humour – it involves a life-long journey to accept and play with what is really happening to you in front of an audience. Its function is to release the tension between the opposites of life by turning them upside down, originating laughter and a poetic transformation". Pedro
In this workshop we will clear what you communicate to the outside to let the audience see what’s essential in you. Everything will be aimed at generating life between you and the audience. The role of Pedro will be providing the conditions so together you can find what truly unbalances, moves and thrills you – and help you reveal it. We will experience strong emotions and find a playful channel for them. You’ll be sometimes out of control, and you will taste both failure and vibrant joy.
We train using games, challenges and improvised interactions to make a journey through the following stages of the clown state:
- Openness – Listening and Readiness
- Connecting and Breathing – with yourself, the audience or a partner
- Acknowledging and Accepting – your emotion, audience reaction, any event
- Reacting – Discovering your clown personality through your reactions
- Losing Control and Failing – Playing with failure, lack of control and mistakes
- Experimenting/Amplifying/Risking – raising stakes, full body involvement
- Personal Madness – What gives you Permission, Freedom and Joy
The more you practice it, this work will have growing benefits on:
- going from emptiness to emotion, emotion to motion, motion to action, action to clown play, clown play to clown madness, cutting through ideas or constructs
- the awareness to yourself, and how to play with any emotion coming between you and the other one
- getting to better know who is your clown, their likes and dislikes, rooted in a clear communication
- generating connection, complicity and trust with your play partners
Pedro's approach is based on pleasure, respect and challenge at the level each person is willing to take. It can be tailored according to the kind and purpose of each group.
LEVEL: Beginner to intermediate.
There is a progression in the training. Pedro adapts the pedagogy to participants’ level of experience, so that everyone can find meaningful and practical material to use in their artistic work or just everyday life.
ABOUT THE TEACHER:
Pedro Fabião is one of the most active international clown teachers (having taught in more than 25 countries) and a pioneer in top companies business trainings (Google, McKinsey, Columbia University Business School) crossed with the authenticity, empathy, creativity, improv and humour skills of a clown.
WHERE & WHEN:
LISBON, 1-2 June 2024, 10:00-18:00
Participation fee: 200 EUR.
Limited spots, your place is only confirmed after the payment
REGISTRATION: by WhatsApp +351 937 990 470
or email: [email protected]
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Where is it happening?
Lisbon, PortugalEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
