Visionary Clown & Circus Fundamentals Workshop with Carolina Duncan
Schedule
Sun Mar 01 2026 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
2400 Bayshore Blvd, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94134 | San Francisco, CA
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PART I: VISIONARY CLOWN (3 Hours)
Developed and Facilitated by Carolina Duncan
Where inner experience becomes shared meaning through ritual, movement, and play.
What if clown isn’t something you perform… but something you enter?
Visionary Clown is an embodied, contemporary approach to clowning in which play becomes a doorway to presence, imagination, and the quiet intelligence of your body. It blends movement, ritual, storytelling, and physical comedy with the language of dreams, symbolism, and inner journeys. You’ll explore how a feeling becomes a gesture, how an image becomes an action, how a small “mistake” becomes a moment of truth.
Visionary Clown arrives at the Church of Clown in the space between the sacred and the silly, welcoming tenderness, surprise, failure, recovery, and real connection. This workshop lives in that spirit.
This is a soft container for beginners:
no pressure to perform
no forced sharing
no “be funny” requirements
just curiosity, listening, and permission to be human
Together we move through a ritual arc—Arrival → Opening → Exploration → Discovery → Integration → Return—using simple writing prompts, elemental movement exploration, and gentle improvisation. White face paint is optional, offered as a threshold tool (not costume), so you can feel what shifts when you cross into clown attention.
You’ll leave with:
a lived experience of Visionary Clown
tools for embodied storytelling + improvisation
a sense of safety, curiosity, and play
worksheets you can return to (like a small ritual kit)
Come as you are. Bring a notebook. Wear clothes you can move in. Let the ritual open. Let the clown transform.
PART II: Circus FUNdamentals & Play (3 hours)
A playful and accessible circus lab where skills support presence, confidence, and authentic expression.
We’ll work with:
Juggling props: spinning plates, bean bags, scarves, clubs
Flow tools: flower sticks
Acrobatics: basics + partner awareness
Taught with curiosity, patience, and adaptable progressions—supporting coordination, rhythm, courage, and embodied play.
Who It’s For
Clowns, performers, artists, movers, educators, facilitators, and curious humans.No experience needed. Come as you are.
What to Bring
Comfortable movement clothes • Water bottle • Pen + paper • Willingness to play
Instructor Bio
Carolina Duncan (Coicoi) is a former Ringling Bros. clown and a Cirque du Monde–certified Instructor of Instructors. She has performed with Clowns Without Borders, has worked directing children’s theater for Pinecones and Portals, directs a nonprofit circus arts education program in Colombia, and teaches with a playful, trauma-informed, bilingual (EN/ES) approach.
Visionary Clown and Circus FUNdamentals
with Carolina Duncan (Coicoi)
Sunday, March 1
10am-5pm
6 hour workshop: $200
Early Bird: $175 (purchase by February 15!)
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Where is it happening?
2400 Bayshore Blvd, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94134Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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