building OF A PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY
deepening clown
WORKSHOP PROPORSAL
This initiatory journey will be composed of several dynamics inspired in the training of the sacred clowns of native American cultures, designed in the form of vision quests to gather information from our own experience. Validate our own journeys without judgment, letting the knowledge circulate through the circle of the community.
This process aims to the construction of an acting vocabulary for clown, which seeks a deep contact with our emotions without resorting to our emotional memory. Instead, the access to deep and true emotions will be by resorting to experiences that each participant will experience in the course that will constitute their personal mythology and source of access to their emotions.
In this way, the mythological plane is considered as a way to access deep emotions, keeping distance from our content / personal history, to facilitate access to them.
WORK STAGES
In a first stage, dynamics will be worked on to:
●Build a safe space
●Awaken the states of play, vulnerability and listening
●Help each participant to detect where and how they are searching at the present moment
●Enable in each participant the possibility of living experiences without judging them, validating them and being able to share them with the group
●Work with personal material to honor it and raise awareness that in the following stages it will not be necessary.
In a second stage, the construction of personal mythology will be addressed through the use of masks that each participant will create and wear, in order to obtain emotional / energetic states that will constitute the personal vocabulary of each actor / actress.
The third stage will be focused on each participant becoming familiar with their recently acquired acting vocabulary through group dynamics and individual scenic excersices.
WORKING TIME
The workshop takes place in a minimum process of ten days of six hours each day.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
Minimum 6, maximum 12
SPACE NEEDS
Enough space for 12 participants to lie on the floor and move around comfortably. Ideally it is good to have more than one workspace and one of them is an open space.
MATERIALS
6 poles of 1m long
Stereo
1/2 Kg of Clay per participant
Newsprint
Glue
Acrylic paintings
Brushes
Elastic
Blank sheets
Calendar 2021
INDIA
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Kalimpong: Buddha Pada | 20th to 26th of March
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Bir: Deer Park Institute | 26th of July to 5th of August
Calendar 2022
INDIA
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Arambol, Goa: Samata Retreat Center | 15th to 25th of February
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Shilaroo: The Shilaroo Project | 8th to 25th of May
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Auroville: Adishakti Theatre | 30th to 8th of August
Calendar 2023
INDIA
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Arambol, Goa: The space within | 2nd to 17th of March