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Clowning for Adults led by Marcus Bale in Kinsale, Co. Cork. Explore your Comedic Potential in this Weekend Course
Details:
- Starts: Saturday, 20 March 2010 at 10:00
- Ends: Sunday, 21 March 2010 at 16:00
- Times: 10am-5pm each day
- Fee: This course is offered at €120 for two days. Bring a packed lunch
- or take a sandwich break in Kinsale.
- Location: Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre, Ballinacurra, Kinsale, Co Cork
Throughout this workshop you will learn about your comedic potential. We will explore it and develop it.
We will regain the pleasure of ‘Play’ with yourself and others.
Finding your clown will help you hugely to increase self-confidence and the use of your body language. For actors and non-actors, you can guarantee you will discover a lot about yourself. The level of the workshop will be set according to the participants experience.
Based on tecniques coming from Jacques LeCoq, Phillip Gaullier, and other teachers of Clowning, together with basic exercises from Commedia dell’Arte and Improvisation, we will attempt to understand the underlying principles of clowning:
- Do not act, just react
- A Clown is only a clown with an audience
- A Clown occurs in the audience’s mind
- Find the pleasure in everything
- Find the Game in everything
- Take your audience in the Journey
More information available on request.
About the facilitator:
Marcus Bale trained in Buenos Aires for seven years in different Actors Studios. He also studied Improvisation, Clown, Circus, Mime, Physical, Mask and Anthropological Theatre. In Ireland he performed and directed a multitude of plays. Since 2002 he has been giving workshops on Improvisation, Clowning, Commedia dell’ Arte, & the Techniques of Jerzi Grotowski, Eugenio Barba & Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, always emphasising the physical aspect of theatre.
He has taught in Ireland, Germany, Italy, Canada & Argentina. In 2001 he co-founded BYOB Productions. The same year he co-founded Cyclone Comedy Improv Troupe. In 2002 he was co-founder of the Snatch Comedy Improv Troupe with whom he performs all over Ireland. In 2003 he became Teacher for the Gaiety School of Acting in Cork teaching adults, children & teenagers. He also teaches “The Spirit of Sign”, Cork Deaf Community Drama group & is also guest teacher at the Theatre Courses in Kinsale College of Further Education & KCAT Drama Course in
Callan, Kilkenny.
How to book?: Call 0879696901 or email (adrianwistreich@gmail.com)your booking. A €50 deposit will be required at least 7 days before the course dates. It is also possible to pay the deposit (or the totality of the course) online via PayPal. In order to do this, please go to: http://www.kinsaleceramics.com/Payments.html
More information: If you want more information or if you have any queries, you can contact me:
Email: marcusbale@gmail.com
Phone: 0863173543