Weekend Workshop

in Potsdam, Germany

12th-13th March 2022 

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Time: 10am-5pm Sat and Sun

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Venue: Werkstatt für Clownforschung

Lennéstr. 74/75

14471 Potsdam

 

Full details: https://www.clownforschung.de/seite/555676/weekend-clown-workshop-with-jon-davison.html

 

Costs:

Early Bird Spaces 1-6  €150

Spaces 7-12 €180

 

Booking and more info:

info@clownforschung.de

info@jondavison.net

tel. +49173/738254

 

The course will take place when at least 8 participants have signed up. If the course is cancelled due to COVID restrictions, your payment will be refunded in full.

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About the workshop:

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This workshop dives into the fundamental dynamics of clowning, how to make yourself and your friends look stupid so we will love and laugh at you.

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Converting our habitual fear of ridicule into the pleasure of laughing at ourselves, we can use it to make others laugh and experience the freedom of the clown. How do clowns do what they do, how does your stupidity make you a success, and how does the unthinkably ridiculous come about?

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When you really look, most things are ridiculous: our bodies, our movements, our ideas, our emotions, our words, our relationships, the universe. The only aim in clowning is to turn failure into success, fear into laughter, suffering into joy. We don’t need to change ourselves, just look at everything from another perspective. It’s a human thing to do, so anyone can do it.

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Clowning is sometimes shrouded in mystery but in reality it's a very simple mode of performance. This workshop uses simple exercises rooted in laughter response in order to access clowning in the most direct manner possible.