BOUFFON - BAD, BOLD AND BRILLIANT workshop with Jaime Mears

Name: BOUFFON - BAD, BOLD AND BRILLIANT workshop with Jaime Mears
Start: 2025-10-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-19T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Kobbelvænget 65, 2700 Brønshøj

Schedule

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 03:00 pm to Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Kobbelvænget 65, 2700 Brønshøj | Herlev, SK

BOUFFON - BAD, BOLD AND BRILLIANT 3 days of fun
Harnessing the power of the Jungian Shadow to find your Bouffon
Come and join Jaime Mears for a weekend-workshop in bouffon and the Jungian Shadow!
"Jaime's fusion of Jung shadow with Bouffon exercises is a powerful prompt to create pieces that are at once personal and universal"
- Eric Davis (RED BASTARD)
Workshop Overview
In this workshop, we will playfully explore the Jungian ‘Shadow’—the ‘unsafe’ or ‘undesirable’ parts of our personality banished from our social persona. Much like the Bouffon, who have been outcast to the ‘Swamps of the Unwanted,’ these parts of ourselves pop up at inopportune moments to shake up our lives and reveal our hypocrisies. Bouffons are uniquely positioned to mock everything and everyone, joyfully disrupting the status quo. Why not start with ourselves?
Never tried Bouffon?
We’ll cover foundational techniques to give you a taste of this mad and deliciously wicked genre of performance and training.
Familiar with Bouffon?
Experience its explosiveness and intensity in a different way.
"If you have any interest in Bouffon, give Jaime a try, she is terrific!!!"
— Hilary Chaplin – Clown, Performer, Queen NY
Workshop Details
In this three-day practical workshop, you will:
- Liberate reserves of energy through play and pushing boundaries.
- Mine your personal shadow for Bouffon material.
- Work with levels of parody from the subtle to the extreme.
- Revel in the pleasure of mockery.
- Experiment in Bouffon chorus.
- Understand how physical transformation and the power of disguise allow exploration of the shadow aspect of our artistic expression.
- Create a body mask.
- Practice using sophisticated rhythms, manipulation, and surprise to empower your Bouffon.
- Try out storytelling and devising in a Bouffon chorus.
Schedule:
- Friday: 15 - 20
- Saturday and Sunday: 10 -16

Location:
The Commedia School studio, Kobbelvænget 65, 2700 Brønshøj
About Jaime Mears
Jaime Mears is an internationally acclaimed actress and workshop facilitator for various theatre modalities since 2001. Read more about Jaime www.jaimemears.com
Early bird (before Sep. 1st): 275 Euro
Regular price: 300 Euro
There is only 8 spots. Your spot is reserved once Commedia School receive your payment.
Submission and contact Information
[email protected]