Nose to Nose of North America --- Clown workshops

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Clowning workshops
Created in 1990, Nose to Nose brings together our diverse experiences in the fields of theatre, community building, teaching, storytelling, play therapy, counselling, Special Needs and organisational consultancy.

COURAGE TO BE- KIMBERTON, PA

2012-01-20T16:45:00.000-08:00

Towards Performance- A 5 weekend workshop Series

2011-12-18T19:09:00.000-08:00

Social Clowning Spring Valley, NY July 22-26 2012

2011-12-17T12:05:00.000-08:00

SOCIAL CLOWNING

Redeeming the Fool

and the Court Jester

This week offers a practical exploration of the clown's take on personal, social and political issues.

From the third day onwards, you will be practising those skills in real life situations within meetings, conferences or during visits to different businesses and institutions - just you and your clown in front of your hosts.

The course is intense and invites you to explore rules around transgression and its limits. What is the right way for a clown to reflect, comment and play with the issues and problems they perceive in the world? Unlike the buffoon (a close cousin of the clown but with an attitude problem), the clown transgresses to reclaim and celebrate life's paradoxes. By fearlessly juggling with social, symbolic and archetypal references, the clown stumbles on and exposes those lies and truths others dare not or cannot speak out.

The ridiculous mirror image (of ourselves and of the world) that the clown offers us puts the human heart back at the very centre of our institutions. In parodying the games of knowledge, power, truth and religion, we reveal not only the light and the shadows of our world but also affirm and celebrate our humanity.

The group is limited to 12

Facilitator: Vivian Gladwell

To book please click here and write to us

Clown 2 March 17-21 2012 Near Philidelpia

2011-12-14T19:17:00.000-08:00

March Clown 2

2011-12-14T19:13:00.000-08:00

NY State/The Berkshires - March 2 to 6, 2012

2011-10-14T10:05:00.000-07:00

The Courage to Be

An Introduction to Clowning

ONE-WEEK INTENSIVE in the Berkshires

at The Spencertown Academy
Spencertown NY

with Vivian Gladwell and Laura Geilen

4 SESSIONS PER DAY

9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00

(Beginning Friday at 9:30am and ending Tuesday at 2:30pm)

Encumbered by the expectations of ourselves and others, how do we find the strength to shake off the limitations and fears that isolate us and prevent us from feeling free? How do we responsibly summon the Courage to BE?

Clowning is a state of playfulness that allows us to experience a child-like, naïve and vulnerable state of being ... and paradoxically we learn, grow, and are strengthened through reconnecting playfully with what makes us most vulnerable. This approach to clowning is not a technique (tricks, gags and routines), but a personal journey towards finding one’s unique way of being - by listening and being receptive, essential skills for any creative and imaginative endeavor. It is only in letting go of control that we begin to be surprised by the depth of that which is around us and within us.

The word “courage” comes from a root that means “heart.” Through clowning and connecting to our naturally playful and creative spirit, we can develop and sustain, in ourselves and in each other, the heart to be who we truly are, to trust life and ourselves. “Taking heart” is a profoundly inward process, and is an invitation for overcoming the fears that block us and keep us from being fully present in the here and now.

This course establishes the foundation for all our work and is an essential first step before going on to more advanced courses such as Social Clowning and the Facilitators Training. Class size is limited to 12.

Please register early.

Course fee - $490***

***The first three bookings get a reduction of $90, the next three, a reduction of $60 and the next three, a reduction $30.

Please note

You receive a $50 reduction on the tuition, if you do this course as part of the two-year clown training.

Let us know if you need accommodation - we can put you in touch with participants offering accommodation.

To reserve your place or write to us - click here

Vivian Gladwell

His particular interest has been into how to apply the insights of clowning to different professional field such as medicine, teaching and business practice. Vivian creates an atmosphere in his workshops that enable all participants – from whatever walk of life – to enter into unfamiliar and challenging exercises. Having completed Vivian's workshops, previous participants have felt an enhanced openness and attentiveness, a heightened sense of empathy, a higher degree of presence, increased improvisational skills and a confidence to apply these across all areas of their life. Vivian's students say that the course gave them 'permission to be playful again,' and 'an understanding that every little incident has significance.

Laura Geilen

Laura Geilen teaches dance, Spacial Dynamics, circus arts, therapeutic movement, acro-yoga and clowning to children, adults, and special needs groups in schools, workplaces, institutions and privately. Laura is a member of Walking the dog Theater's OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble, and is a facilitator with Nose to Nose. She believes in clowning as a personal practice and journey towards greater truth, freedom and aliveness and also as a social art that can re-connect us to the world and bring healing to our relationships.

Booking for Spring Valley - Summer 2011

2011-05-08T16:36:00.000-07:00

ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS

We advise you to wait for confirmation of your course before you book accommodation. However, you can check availability and prices through the following link.

Click here to book accommodation

Choices for meals are cafe, health food store and local restaurant. Please check this link http://www.threefold.org/threefold_cafe/index.aspx

Clown Level 3 - Spring Valley NY - 10 - 14 July 2011

2011-03-28T16:06:00.001-07:00

THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTION
clown level III

4 SESSIONS PER DAY
9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00
(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

Clowning is the art of making mistakes and there is an art to paying attention to the unexpected, to accidents and those unintended things we do. Sometimes our striving for perfection blinds us to what the world is trying to tell us. Great wisdom can be found in making peace with our shadows and our shortcomings and clowning celebrates all our humanity even those part of it we are desperately trying not to be.

This level III course brings a fresh new way of looking at impros by focusing on the many strategies we use for avoiding mistakes. The course gives a greater focus on theatrical and improvisational techniques and will feel very different from previous levels. For example, impros are repeated to bring actors to work in less familiar and/or comfortable areas.

Level 3 moves the work one step closer to performance and is an ideal preliminary to Towards Performance and/or Social Clowning.

Course fee - $560

To book this course - click here

To pay see below

For further details click here

Vivian Gladwell

You can read some testimonials about Vivian's courses below:

“From the very first minute of Vivian’s presence one had the feeling of being accompanied by a good spirit. So all the exercises we did – although they required us to overcome certain inner obstacles – were a step on the way to free oneself from hesitation and inner burdens. L.B. English Week 2004 (f)”

“I must say Vivian did very well and made us all feel very comfortable in the group and in doing these strange things we had to do. I would never have believed someone could make me play a square or a toy sword or whatever, but in the right setting I was able to do so. C. B. English Fortnight 2000 (f)”

“I found it remarkable how quickly Vivian managed to create an atmosphere for all the participants in which one not only felt well, but also safe enough to try things out that one wouldn’t normally trust oneself to do. For me as a person and a teacher it was an extraordinary valuable experience to see how one can wholly captivate an “audience” when one is fully present. [vollkommen bei sich]. M.B. English Week 2005 (f)”

Other comments from previous course participants:

Dr Deon van Zyl

This was the single most transformative and life-changing programme I have ever attended.

Sharon Olivier

The most refreshing insight was learning how to relax, tune in and respond to the moment. The facilitation was top class! I gained so many insights and skills that will benefit my training and speaking career.

Clown Level 2 - Spring Valley NY -July 15-19 2012

2011-03-28T16:05:00.001-07:00

EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED
clown level 2

Spring Valley NY

co-facilitated by Angie Foster and Ann Willcutt

4 SESSIONS PER DAY
9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00
(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

This course continues the Level 1 work, offering further practice of clowning with the focus on structure and relationship. The more demanding aspects of this level come from a need to practice responsiveness to, and awareness of, your partner on stage, your audience and the images, stories and characters that emerge during improvisation. Our work will bring greater insights into the techniques of improvisation and performance.

Level II is a pre-requisite for Clown 3 - The Wisdom of Imperfection

Course fee - $490***

To book please click here and write to us

Please note

You will receive a $50 reduction, if you do this course as part of the two-year clown training. For further details click here

Angie Foster

Angie is on the team of Nose to Nose of North America clowning facilitators, where she has been leading workshops in the Philadelphia area. This form of clowning combines her passion for improvisation and theatre and her quest for self-discovery. Angie is a professional actress; she has performed on Broadway, and in regional theatres. She has also been directing plays at Kimberton Waldorf School for 12 years. Her training includes the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project, vocal work with Kristen Linklater, gestalt therapy training, Spacial Dynamics with Jaimen McMillan, and 25 years of yoga. You can email her at 4angiefoster@gmail.com

Ann Willcutt

Since 2003, Ann has worked with Avner Eisenberg, Julie Goell, Keith Johnstone, Karen Montanero, Ruth Zaporah, and most recently, Vivian Gladwell—to affirm her inner clown.

Ann holds workshops and teaches improvisation in Santa Fe NM.

annbowill@comcast.net 505-438-2487

Clown Level 1 - Montreal July 8-12 2012

2011-03-28T16:04:00.000-07:00

The Courage to Be
An Introduction to Clowning - ONE-WEEK INTENSIVE Montreal July 8-12 2012

Co-facilitated in French and English by Vivian Gladwell and Blondine Maurice

4 SESSIONS PER DAY
9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00
(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

Clowning is a state of playfulness that allows us to experience a child-like, naive and vulnerable state of being ... and paradoxically we grow, learn and are strengthened through playfully reconnecting with what makes us most vulnerable. This approach to clowning is not a technique (tricks, gags, and routines) but a personal journey towards finding one's unique way of being a clown, by listening and being receptive, essential skills for any creative and imaginative expression. This course is about freeing ourselves from the "shoulds" and "should nots" that constrain our natural capacity to be playful and free.

This course establishes the foundation for all our work and is an essential first step before going on to more advanced courses such as Social Clowning and the Facilitators Training planned for 2011. Class size is limited to 12.
Please register early.

Course fee - $490

To book this course - click here

Please note

You will receive a $50 reduction, if you do this course as part of the two-year clown training. For further details click here

Vivian Gladwell

You can read some testimonials about Vivian's courses below:

Other comments from previous course participants:

Dr Deon van Zyl

This was the single most transformative and life-changing programme I have ever attended.

Sharon Olivier

Since 1969 the film of Jean Louis Barrault, Les enfants du Paradis, the theme of the Fool has refused to leave her heart. Blondine has trained with world class international talents in clowning.
1977: Finding her personal clown (one of them anyway) with Kaf Warman in California
1999 onwards: There is No Turning back, inspired by...
* Cheryl Cashman see Pocninko, Nelson
* Grindl, clown and dancer, Toronto
* Ian Wallace aka Nion, Vancouver
* Facilitator Training with Vivian Gladwell founder of Nose to Nose, Europe

Blondine has raised 7 children and been a Waldorf Early Childhood teacher since 1980. These experiences granted her many opportunities to find the humor in everyday life.

Assisting for 5 years in various transformative workshops and Body Mind Therapy training has helped Blondine to develop ease in holding space, listening and creating a safe environement for emerging clowns, all the while creating a lifetime journey towards her business: The Heart Nose and the healing power of laughter.

Clowning As An Inner Journey-An Introductory Weekend

2011-03-09T08:23:00.000-08:00

In collaboration with Walking the dog Theater, Hudson NY

Facilitated by Laura Geilen of Nose to Nose and Benedicta Bertau of Walking the dog Theater

March 19 & 20, 2011

at Spencertown Academy

in Spencertown, New York

The clown experiences everything intensely: joy and sorrow, curiosity and hubris, courage and fear. But no matter what challenge life throws in clown's way - YES! is her/his answer. We fail with delight. We triumph in tiny achievements.

This workshop is not about clown routines, tricks or gags. No acting or clowning experience is needed. You're invited on a safe personal journey that lets our challenges become opportunities, our mistakes celebrations, and our confusions states of enlightenment. In clowning we delight in life's paradoxes.

Through learning to deepen presence and by connecting to our playful spirit we can develop and sustain the heart to be who we truly are.

Fees start at $150 for one, $275 for two.

Scholarships may be available.

Bring more friends and save more - contact us for more details.

For more information contact Laura Geilen at laura@nosetonose.info

Embracing the Unexpected - Clown 2 - March 23rd - 27th, 2011

2011-01-01T11:32:00.000-08:00

Embracing the Unexpected

An Exploration in Clowning

Wednesday March 23rd - Sunday March 27th, 2011

Facilitated by Angie Stonorov Foster and Kristin Spaeth Crowley

Kimberton Waldorf School - Kimberton, PA

Wednesday - Saturday 9am-6pm

Sunday 9am-1pm

$490 ($400 if registered before February 15th)

Call (610)935-0637 to register...

or write to 4angiefoster@gmail.com

Embracing the Unexpected is open to those who have completed The Courage to Be or its equivalent, and continues the work, offering further practice in clowning with a focus on structure and relationship.

The more demanding aspects of this work come from a need to practice responsiveness to and awareness of your partner on stage, your audience, and the images, stories, and characters that emerge during improvisation.

Our work will be a step toward more advanced work such as Social Clowning and the Facilitators Training.

Limited to 12 participants. Please register early.

Angie Foster is on the team of Nose to Nose of North America clowning facilitators, where she has been leading workshops in the Philadelphia area. She is a professional actress and has performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in regional theatres. She has been directing plays at Kimberton Waldorf High School for 13 years. Her training includes the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project, vocal work with Kristen Linklater, Gestalt therapy training, Spacial Dynamics with Jaimen McMillan, and 20 years of yoga. This form of clowning combines her passion for improvisation and theatre and her quest for self-discovery.

She is interested in presences and possibilities. The mistakes she makes; the limitations she must overcome; the struggles she faces in being and becoming; the gifts she has been given; and her sense of wonder, reverence, and gratitude inform and guide her in her work with others.

She works with individuals, companies, institutions, agencies, and organizations. She still struggles and falls down.

For more information on Clowning, the Two-Year Clown Training, and the upcoming

Facilitation Training with Nose to Nose and Nose to Nose of North America, please visit www.nosetonose.info or http://naclownworkshops.blogspot.com/.

Clown 1 -Spring Valley, NY July 8-12 2012

2010-12-29T12:08:00.001-08:00

The Courage to Be

An Introduction to Clowning

ONE-WEEK INTENSIVE in Spring Valley NY

co-facilitated by Kirstin Crowley and Laura Geilen

4 SESSIONS PER DAY

9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00

(Beginning Monday at 9:30am and ending Friday at 2:30pm)

Course fee - $490

To book please click here and write to us

Please note

You receive a $50 reduction on the tuition, if you do this course as part of the two-year clown training.

Kristin Spaeth Crowley did not come to clowning by choice, but was forced into it by wiser others who knew where she belonged. Her work as a clown and facilitator led her to the fumbling discovery and recovery of a language she knows inwardly, loves, and could have lost. Her specialties include weeping, falling in love, making mischief, and the invisible.

She is grateful for the inspiration and example of those brilliant, talented and generous people she has been privileged to work with or been touched by - artists, musicians, athletes, educators, poets, seekers, thinkers, healers, and other “ordinary” fearful and courageous spirits willing to risk and dare.

She is amazed and astonished by her family, her parents and siblings, her children, and those she has claimed unjustly as her own; by those braver than she, facing the ordinary challenges connected with being alive; and by forgiveness.
She is interested in presences and possibilities.
She is informed by life and living, by beauty, ugliness, music, laughter, poetry, nature, stillness, cruelty, and compassion, by brave souls and tender hearts … by the struggle to realize the impulse that initiated a wish to be, and by the work she has to do.
The mistakes she makes: the limitations she must overcome; the struggles she faces in being and becoming; the gifts she has been given; and her sense of wonder, reverence, and gratitude inform and guide her in her work with others.
She works with individuals, companies, institutions, agencies, and organizations. She still struggles and falls down.

Laura Geilen

Discover the Clown Within - A One Day Workshop - 22 Jan 2011

2010-12-07T15:48:00.000-08:00

Clowning is a state of playfulness that allows us to experience a child-like and vulnerable state of
being--and paradoxically we grow, learn and are strengthened.
This approach to clowning is not a technique (tricks, gags, and routines) but a personal journey
towards finding one’s unique way of being--by listening and being receptive, essential skills for
any creative and imaginative endeavor. It is only in letting go of control that we begin to be
surprised by the depth of that which is around us and within us.
In search of the authentic playful self.....
in all its messy and hilarious beauty.

To register or for more information:4angiefoster@gmail.com
610-935-0637

Date and Time: Saturday, January 22nd 2011
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: Kimberton Waldorf School
(Lower School Theatre)

Cost: $75

Limit: 12 participants

The facilitator: Angie Foster is an actress, director, and clowning facilitator based in the Philadelphia area. She trained
first as a classical actress, performing on Broadway, off-Broadway, in experimental theatre and repertory around the U.S. This form of clowning combines her passion for improvisation and theatre and her quest for self-discovery.

santa fe feb 2012

2010-11-19T12:20:00.000-08:00

Sunday 21 Nov 2010

2010-09-13T08:36:00.000-07:00

A conference, a workshop and a show at the Anthroposophical Society in New York City.

13:00 – 14:30
Conference on clowning with Vivian Gladwell from Nose to Nose, UK
15:00 – 16:30
A fun and light-hearted introduction to our work with the Nose to Nose team.
19:00 – 20:30
An evening of improvisation performed by the Nose to Nose team.

There is a small fee for this event.

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Atelier de clown avec Johanne 2010-11

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Vivian Gladwell

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Since 1988, Vivian has worked internationally as a modern day Court Jester and facilitator. He performs at business events and conferences. He is the founding member of Nose to Nose (see www.nosetonose.info) and Fool View, the Social Clowning group. His teaching has introduced many to discover the transformative power of play and humour.
His particular interest has been into how to apply the insights of clowning to different professional field such as medicine, teaching and business practice. Vivian creates an atmosphere in his workshops that enable all participants – from whatever walk of life – to enter into unfamiliar and challenging exercises. Having completed Vivian's workshops, previous participants have felt an enhanced openness and attentiveness, a heightened sense of empathy, a higher degree of presence, increased improvisational skills and a confidence to apply these across all areas of their life. Vivian's students say that the course gave them 'permission to be playful again,' and 'an understanding that every little incident has significance.

You can read some testimonials about Vivian's courses below:

“From the very first minute of Vivian’s presence one had the feeling of being accompanied by a good spirit. So all the exercises we did – although they required us to overcome certain inner obstacles – were a step on the way to free oneself from hesitation and inner burdens. L.B. English Week 2004 (f)”

“I must say Vivian did very well and made us all feel very comfortable in the group and in doing these strange things we had to do. I would never have believed someone could make me play a square or a toy sword or whatever, but in the right setting I was able to do so. C. B. English Fortnight 2000 (f)”

“I found it remarkable how quickly Vivian managed to create an atmosphere for all the participants in which one not only felt well, but also safe enough to try things out that one wouldn’t normally trust oneself to do. For me as a person and a teacher it was an extraordinary valuable experience to see how one can wholly captivate an “audience” when one is fully present. [vollkommen bei sich]. M.B. English Week 2005 (f)”

Other comments from previous course participants:

Dr Deon van Zyl
This was the single most transformative and life-changing programme I have ever attended.

Sharon Olivier
The most refreshing insight was learning how to relax, tune in and respond to the moment. The facilitation was top class! I gained so many insights and skills that will benefit my training and speaking career.

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OUR APPROACH
As facilitators, we believe we stay true to the spirit of clowning when we flow with the creative process of each person, when we nurture its emotional expression and the emergence of the imagination and when we facilitate and free actors to find their own clown, unique and grounded in their relationship to the audience.
It is our belief that by focusing on the individual we are, in fact, going straight to the heart of clowning which is the search for authenticity both in the social or personal dimensions of our lives.
The approach to clowning we have developed over the years has important echoes both in the fields of personal growth with our Clown Within workshops - and in the fields of social mediation with our Court Jester Group. In our workshops we have people from a wide range of professional and social backgrounds, of all ages, with or without previous experience of the theatre.
Many continue working with us because they find the freedom and playfulness of the work becomes vital for them.

What happens in a workshop
We work in a group of no more than 12 people. We start warming up with games, vocal and physical exercises. We then proceed with improvisations on a stage (alone or with others). Each improvisation is discussed to identify and bring out the positive and important aspects of our clown (and how it lives in us).

This is done with care and respect for each individual and within a framework of rules that ensures a secure and protective environment.

The Clown Within

The clown’s nose, the smallest mask in the world, is the mask that unmasks. Through the clown we can rediscover inner qualities of openness, spontaneity and play. The clown allows our imagination to soar, whilst keeping our feet firmly on the ground. Working with warm-ups, games and on the empty stage, we will find our inner clowns through improvisation, play and welcoming everything that emerges.

Watch a film about us

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PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

Clown 1 - Three weekend workshops - Sept 24 - 25 / Oct 15 - 16 / Nov 19 - 20
Clown 3 - The Wisdom of Imperfection - Nov 5 to 9, 2011

Clown 3 - The Wisdom of Imperfection - Spring Valley - NY July 10 to 14 2011

Clown 1 - Courage to Be - Toronto - May 16 to 20 2011

Clown 2 - Embracing the unexpected - Philadelphia - 23-27 March 2011

One day introduction - Philadelphia - 22 Jan 2011

Clown 1 - New York City - 15-19 November 2010 Clown 1 - Spencertown NY- 16-20 August 2010 Clown 2 - Spencertown NY - 17-21 Oct 2010

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The Courage to Be

An Introduction to Clowning

ONE-WEEK INTENSIVE: NOVEMBER 15-19

co-facilitated by Vivian Gladwell and Kristin Crowley

Venue - TheaterLab, 137 West Fourteenth Street, New York
4 SESSIONS PER DAY

9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00

(Beginning Monday at 2:30pm and ending Friday at 2:30pm)

This course establishes the foundation for of all our work and is an essential first step before going on to more advanced courses such as Social Clowning and the Facilitators Training planned for 2011. Class size is limited to 12.
Please register early.

Course fee - $490***

Please note

You receive a $50 reduction on the tuition, if you do this course as part of the two-year clown training.

Let us know if you need accommodation - we can put you in touch with participants offering accommodation.

Vivian Gladwell

You can read some testimonials about Vivian's courses below:

Other comments from previous course participants:

Dr Deon van Zyl

This was the single most transformative and life-changing programme I have ever attended.

Sharon Olivier

Kristin Spaeth Crowley did not come to clowning by choice, but was forced into it by wiser others who knew where she belonged. Her work as a clown and facilitator led her to the fumbling discovery and recovery of a language she knows inwardly, loves, and could have lost. Her specialties include weeping, falling in love, making mischief, and the invisible.

She is grateful for the inspiration and example of those brilliant, talented and generous people she has been privileged to work with or been touched by - artists, musicians, athletes, educators, poets, seekers, thinkers, healers, and other “ordinary” fearful and courageous spirits willing to risk and dare.

She is amazed and astonished by her family, her parents and siblings, her children, and those she has claimed unjustly as her own; by those braver than she, facing the ordinary challenges connected with being alive; and by forgiveness.

She is interested in presences and possibilities.

She is informed by life and living, by beauty, ugliness, music, laughter, poetry, nature, stillness, cruelty, and compassion, by brave souls and tender hearts … by the struggle to realize the impulse that initiated a wish to be, and by the work she has to do.

The mistakes she makes: the limitations she must overcome; the struggles she faces in being and becoming; the gifts she has been given; and her sense of wonder, reverence, and gratitude inform and guide her in her work with others.

She works with individuals, companies, institutions, agencies, and organizations. She still struggles and falls down.

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Calendar

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Two-year clown training

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Summer 2010 at the Rudolf Steiner Institute

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Please join us at the Rudolf Steiner Institute this summer!

The Courage to Be: An Introduction to Clowning
co-facilitated by Ann Willcutt and Vivian Gladwell
July 11-17

Clowning Level II: Embracing the Unexpected
co-facilitated by Laura Geilen and Vivian Gladwell
July 18-24

Class size is limited. Please register early.

For more information: http://www.steinerinstitute.org/index.aspx

Social Clowning and the Facilitators training are planned for 2011

Canada

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Blondine Maurice lives in Montreal, Québec and Johanne Talbot in Kingston, Ontario. If you do not find dates or places that suit you, we are happy to organize workshops in your area. Please contact us.

workshops with Blondine

2010-02-24T14:12:00.000-08:00

Join Blondine on an Inner Clown adventure as you peel away the layers with laughter, all the while wearing the smaller mask in the world-the clown's nose

http://www.theheartnose.com

Clowning intensive in Pennsylvania

2010-02-21T21:20:00.000-08:00

Discover the Clown Within
an intensive co-facilitated by
Vivian Gladwell and Angie Foster
April 14th - April 18th 2010

Come find that free, fun, spontaneous and playful part of you that copes with life without being concerned about getting it right or being clever all the time.Our approach to clowning is not a technique (tricks,
gags or routines) but a personal journey towards finding your own unique way of bein
g a clown.

Through play, games and short improvisations we will learn to let go of our control over things and be surprised by what reveals itself to us.

Connect to your spirit of play and joy
Rediscover your openness and spontaneity
Build confidence
Improve health and well-being
Laugh and have fun!

The workshop will be held at People's Light and Theatre Company, Malvern, Pennsylvania

Limited to 12 participants. Adults only. No experience necessary.

$490 (We will be asking for a deposit Mid-March to secure a place.)

To reserve a space: Click here to book

How we work

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Angie Foster

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Louise Hill

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Louise Hill is President of the Rudolf Steiner Institute and volunteers as a "healing" clown and storyteller. A student of Nose to Nose, she teaches the healing art of clowning in Minnesota. Louise is a graduate of the Sacred Service of the School of Spiritual Psychology, and has a degree in Women's Studies.

Laura Geilen

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Laura Geilen

Laura Geilen teaches dance, Spacial Dynamics, circus arts, therapeutic movement, acro-yoga and clowning to children, adults, and special needs groups in schools, collegial settings and privately. Laura is a member of Walking the dog Theater's OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble, and is a facilitator with Nose to Nose. She believes in clowning as a personal journey towards greater truth, freedom and aliveness and also as a social art that can re-connect us to the world and bring healing to our relationships.

For more of her story please go to:

http://www.circusyoga.com/site/Laura_Geilen.html

Blondine Maurice

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http://www.theheartnose.com/

Since 1969 the film of Jean Louis Barrault, Les enfants du Paradis, the theme of the Fool has refused to leave her heart. Blondine has trained with world class international talents in clowning.
1977: Finding her personal clown (one of them anyway) with Kaf Warman in California
1999 onwards: There is No Turning back, inspired by...
* Cheryl Cashman see Pocninko, Nelson
* Grindl, clown and dancer, Toronto
* Ian Wallace aka Nion, Vancouver
* Facilitator Training with Vivian Gladwell founder of Nose to Nose, Europe

Blondine has raised 7 children and been a Waldorf Early Childhood teacher since 1980. These experiences granted her many opportunities to find the humor in everyday life.

Assisting for 5 years in various transformative workshops and Body Mind Therapy training has helped Blondine to develop ease in holding space, listening and creating a safe environement for emerging clowns, all the while creating a lifetime journey towards her business: The Heart Nose and the healing power of laughter.

How we work

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As facilitators, we believe we stay true to the spirit of clowning when we flow with the creative process of each person, when we nurture its emotional expression and the emergence of the imagination and when we facilitate and free actors to find their own clown, unique and grounded in their relationship to the audience. It is our belief that by focusing on the individual we are, in fact, going straight to the heart of clowning which is the search for authenticity both in the social or personal dimensions of our lives.
The approach to clowning we have developed over the years has important echoes both in the fields of personal growth with our Clown Withinworkshops - and in the fields of social mediation. In our workshops we have people from a wide range of professional and social backgrounds, of all ages, with or withoutprevious experience of the theatre. Many continue working with us because they find the freedom and playfulness of the work becomes vital for them.

What happens in a workshop
We work in a group of no more than 12 people. We start warming up with games, vocal and physical exercises. We then proceed with improvisations on a stage (alone or with others). Each improvisation is discussed to identify and bring out the positive and important aspects of our clown (and how it lives in us).

This is done with care and respect for each individual and within a framework of rules that ensures a secure and protective environment.

The Clown Within
The clown’s nose, the smallest mask in the world, is the mask that unmasks. Through the clown we can rediscover inner qualities of openness, spontaneity and play. The clown allows our imagination to soar, whilst keeping our feet firmly on the ground. Working with warm-ups, games and on the empty stage, we will find our inner clowns through improvisation, play and welcoming everything that emerges.

Ann Willcutt

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Ann has been facilitating Inner Clown Workshops—“Fools That We Are”—since 2007 while completing the Clown Facilitator Training with Nose to Nose UK. She has 33 years of teaching experience in Waldorf and public schools including teaching Biography to adults and mentoring teachers. She holds an MA in Speech and Theatre from Indiana University.

Since 2003, Ann has worked with Avner Eisenberg, Julie Goell, Keith Johnstone, Karen Montanero, Ruth Zaporah, and most recently, Vivian Gladwell—to affirm her inner clown.

Ann holds workshops and teaches improvisation in Santa Fe NM. annbowill@comcast.net (505) 438-2487

Where are we?

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Nose to Nose of North America --- Clown workshops

COURAGE TO BE- KIMBERTON, PA

Towards Performance- A 5 weekend workshop Series

Social Clowning Spring Valley, NY July 22-26 2012

SOCIAL CLOWNING

Redeeming the Fool

and the Court Jester

Clown 2 March 17-21 2012 Near Philidelpia

March Clown 2

NY State/The Berkshires - March 2 to 6, 2012

Booking for Spring Valley - Summer 2011

Clown Level 3 - Spring Valley NY - 10 - 14 July 2011

THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTIONclown level III

4 SESSIONS PER DAY9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

Clown Level 2 - Spring Valley NY -July 15-19 2012

EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTEDclown level 2

Spring Valley NYco-facilitated by Angie Foster and Ann Willcutt

4 SESSIONS PER DAY9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

Clown Level 1 - Montreal July 8-12 2012

The Courage to BeAn Introduction to Clowning - ONE-WEEK INTENSIVE Montreal July 8-12 2012Co-facilitated in French and English by Vivian Gladwell and Blondine Maurice

4 SESSIONS PER DAY9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

Clowning As An Inner Journey-An Introductory Weekend

Embracing the Unexpected - Clown 2 - March 23rd - 27th, 2011

Clown 1 -Spring Valley, NY July 8-12 2012

Discover the Clown Within - A One Day Workshop - 22 Jan 2011

santa fe feb 2012

Sunday 21 Nov 2010

Atelier de clown avec Johanne 2010-11

Clown workshop with Johanne-2010-11

Vivian Gladwell

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Two-year clown training

Summer 2010 at the Rudolf Steiner Institute

Canada

workshops with Blondine

Clowning intensive in Pennsylvania

How we work

Angie Foster

Louise Hill

Laura Geilen

Blondine Maurice

How we work

Ann Willcutt

Where are we?

THE WISDOM OF IMPERFECTION
clown level III

4 SESSIONS PER DAY
9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00
(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED
clown level 2

Spring Valley NY

co-facilitated by Angie Foster and Ann Willcutt

4 SESSIONS PER DAY
9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00
(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)

The Courage to Be
An Introduction to Clowning - ONE-WEEK INTENSIVE Montreal July 8-12 2012

Co-facilitated in French and English by Vivian Gladwell and Blondine Maurice

4 SESSIONS PER DAY
9:30-11:00 11:30–1:00 2:30–3:45 4:15–6:00
(Beginning Sunday at 9:30am and ending Thursday at 2:30pm)