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biography jon davison In 1993 he began working together with Clara Cenoz, performing as Companyia d’Idiotes at festivals, theatres, tents, streets and bars throughout Europe – London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Sicily, Russia... He taught clown, impro, and acting at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona from 1996-2006, as well as working regularly at the Col.legi del Teatre, El Timbal, Co and Co., etc. Since 2007 he has been co-director o studies at the Escola de Clown de Barcelona. He is currently a research fellow at Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
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past workshops... October-December 2009 We concentrated on preparing short numbers, both devised and already existing texts from Tristan Rémy's Entrées Clownesques, using what we had discovered in the first two years of the project, which means maintaining the clown whilst devising. The real exploration is about how we put all this knowledge together to make convincing clown performance. See here for full report. September 2009 Sept 24th-26th "An Encyclopaedia of Clown" at CSSD was a performance designed to test, compare and demonstrate the wide variety of forms and structures in clown performance using the long list of ways of devising we have worked on in workshops this year to create between 25 and 50 short gags. I also presented a paper "The Dramaturgy of Clown", illustrating the theoretical underpinning of this year's work on "What Clowns Do". July 2009 Workshop at CSSD, 21st-24th July. Clown Workshop at Escola de Clown de Barcelona, 6th-11th July. January - March 2009 Monday 16th - Friday 20th February 2009, 10am-1pm, workshop at CSSD, London. "What do clowns do?" We spent a week looking at a whole range of ways of creating clown material, the external work of form, structure, composition, and how it relates to the internal work of presence-through-failure. I wanted to see if we could usefully create work by drawing inspiration from Chaplin, Tati, Rowan Atkinson, Steve Martin and others. Full report will be online soon... July - September 2008 September: workshops at Escola de Clown de Barcelona. We began to ponder how our new-found freshness in being present as clowns would hold up in the face of having to perform prepared numbers. Full report online soon... July: workshops in London. We revisited the exercises we had found useful throughout the year, moulding them into a form that we could perform in front of a live audience, leading to group and solo performances at Chisenhale Dance in July, and at the Festival Of Emergent Art at CSSD in September. See performance videos here...
April - June 2008 May: Workshops in London; Mondays and Wednesdays 6.30-8.30pm; Central School of Speech and Drama. We plunged headlong into vertiginous play, in an attempt to generate a kind of play-energy that would be appropriate to clowning, i.e. one that doesn't involve rules. Report coming soon... January - March 2008 26th-30th March: Workshops at Escola de Clown de Barcelona. What kind of preparation could we use for clowning if we dispense with rule-bound games?
4th-27th Feb: Workshops in London; Mondays and Wednesdays 6.30-8.30pm; Central School of Speech and Drama. We worked on the paradox of emotional expression, i.e. how can it be that in clowning both real and fake emotions are interesting?
October - December 2007 26th Oct-21st Nov: Workshops in London; Mondays and Wednesdays 6.30-8.30pm; Central School of Speech and Drama - Studio 1 What exercises are truly useful in order to feel, understand and learn the basic state of clown? We revisited some familiar territory but with a critical eye. 12th-16th Dec: Workshops at Escola de Clown de Barcelona. Are there only a handful of truly clown exercises? What do they say about clown as a technique in itself, rather than as a function of theatrre, mask or improvisation?
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