Clown as Performance - Melbourne (4 Days)

Name: Clown as Performance - Melbourne (4 Days)
Start: 2024-10-28T10:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-31T14:00:00+10:00
Location: Victorian Trades Hall

Schedule

Mon Oct 28 2024 at 10:00 am to Thu Oct 31 2024 at 02:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Victorian Trades Hall | Melbourne, VI

Session times 11am-5pm daily (Venue TBC)
This workshop is for people with some performance experience; as a clown, actor, improviser or comedian. It helps if you have had some clown training but not essential. We will build on all the core learning areas of the ‘Intro to Clown’ workshop (Looking to the Laugh, Repeating the Funny, Learning to Love the Flop, Saving your Mate, Doing Something vs Doing Nothing) and I will begin to provoke you as the ‘Boss Clown’ to help you find the ridiculous. We will source costumes and start to play around with the red nose. The workshop will finish by looking at ways to create clown scenes and I will run you through how to build a show (although this may still be some way off for you).

Focus:
Provoking the Idiot
Finding the Game
Clowns in Scripted Scenes
Creating Original Clown Material/Scenes

INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Damien Warren-Smith (A.K.A. Garry Starr) is a performer whose solo work has played festivals all over the world, picking up numerous awards along the way. Having trained and worked as an actor for over 15 years he re-trained as a clown with Philippe Gaulier before forming the clown troupe A Plague of Idiots. His solo shows have played to packed houses in Melbourne, London, Oslo, Berlin, LA and Las Vegas. He has taught workshops across the UK, Australia and Japan. He currently lives out of a suitcase and goes where the wind takes him.