What we’re about
This class is for improvisers, actors, clowns, comedians or anyone who wants to get to the root of funny.
Robert Rodgers from Cirque Du Soleil is teaching a weekend course on clowning. In this safe and fun environment, Robert will transform you and your clown into a whole new level of performance. Have you ever wondered why Charlie Chaplin is so watchable and still so beloved? It’s the complete sense of honesty in movement and voice.
We will work on finding the essence of you and what makes you funny. Everyone is funny in different ways. We all have a voice. Sometimes we think we know what the funny is, but if you show yourself, who you truly are, we get to the individual truth of what is funny through your eyes... A clown is someone who finds the innocence of a child or the nativity to the world while balancing the contradictions of who we are individually If you understood or grasp the notion of this, you can tackle anything and it will change your way of any artistic work that you trying to convey whether through improv, acting, clowning or even life. Through simplicity, physical grace and honesty you will set the foundation to grow in a new way.
This 12 hour workshop will be split up into two days. We will cover:
- White and Red clown roles
- Master servant roles
- Baffoonery
- Contradictions in clown character
- How you are perceived
- Finding the loser in you
- Your Lovely thing
- Physical eloquence
- Getting into trouble
- Creating chaos
- Listening to the audience
- Take this opportunity to learn the power of clown and how to apply it to improvisational work, plays, screenplays or clown routines!
Details:
This weekend workshop will be on August 6 and 7, 2022.
From 11-6 Saturday
11-4 on Sunday
The class is at FMP1, Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin
This course will be taught by me, Rob Rodgers (biography below), and costs 170 EUR, payable to:
Robert Rodgers / Berliner Sparkasse / DE13 1005 0000 1068 0212 30 / BELADEBEXXX / Finanzamt & Steuernummer: Pankow 31, 495/00 232
Please put “Clowning workshop” in the transfer note so I’m aware which workshop or workshops you’re paying for.
Also, please email scratchtheater@gmail.com to let me know you have paid, as sometimes the payment can take a couple days to go through and I want to be sure you get your spot in the course! Also, let me know if there are any questions.
I’m looking forward to meeting you!
Rob
