Intro to Clown - Melbourne (2 Days)

Name: Intro to Clown - Melbourne (2 Days)
Start: 2024-10-05T11:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-06T15:00:00+10:00
Location: Victorian Trades Hall

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 11:00 am to Sun Oct 06 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Victorian Trades Hall | Melbourne, VI

Session times 11am-5pm daily (Venue TBC)
Clowns are eternally optimistic and truly come alive in failure.
In this playful workshop we will explore how to be funny without even trying. The pressure to make people laugh will be graciously taken out of your hands and we will instead be finding ways to make you look ridiculous so you can hone your skills in listening for laughter and responding accordingly.

Focus:
Looking to the Laugh
Repeating the Funny
Falling in Love with The Flop
Saving your Mates
Doing Something vs Doing Nothing

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 the likes of Mick Barnfather, Peta Lily, John Wright, Lucy Hopkins, Carlo Jacucci and 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 and he has taught workshops across the UK, Australia and Japan. He currently lives out of a suitcase and goes where the wind takes him.