Clowning Research - An open workshop at Central

Monday July 22nd 2pm – 5pm

We invite you to spend the afternoon with us engaging in experimental clown training practice as research.

We are in the midst of an Arts Council-funded R&D project investigating the relationship between performer training and live performance.

Our main questions are around how to reproduce on public stages some of the biggest impact outcomes which occur in the training studio. We have been working with performers, trainers, researchers and other practitioners with an interest in engaging with our ever-expanding list of questions, by participating in some of our ongoing experiments in transferring training to performance.

Some of our questions currently are: - How can we navigate from the studio to the stage? - How is training useful? - What are we training to do? - How can training exercises be redesigned for clown purposes? - What are ‘clown choices’ in performance? - How can we cause imbalance or uncertainty such that the unexpected might occur? - How do we learn clown?

The session will take place in RR6 and is open to all RCSSD staff, students and alumni

If you’d like to know more, please contact Dr. Jon Davison jon.davison@cssd.ac.uk

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