with Sarah French & Vivian Gladwell
October 3 to 6, 2024
This workshop aims to explore the clown’s relationship to emptiness.
We will play with silence & stillness, spaciousness, invisibility & our yearning for certainty.
What happens when we resist the temptation to be busy, meaningful & purposeful?
How can we be present to the anxiety & fear that emptiness brings?
In shifting our attention from what we are doing to how we are doing it, we open a space for poetry, relationship & love.
All welcome!
The group is limited to 12.
Facilitators:
Sarah French
For as long as she remembers, Sarah has been interested in how people play. She had set out as a practicing psychotherapist when she stumbled into the paradoxical world of Clown, which set her on an enlivening path, despite her hesitations & fears. She has collaborated with Vivian Gladwell of Nose to Nose since 2012. Sarah considers that she has many teachers, including the spinner dolphins of Hawaii, who are the clowns of the sea.
In 2021, Sarah founded Fool Tree, a small center for the playful arts in Ghent, NY, where she continues to facilitate clowning workshops & community events.
Vivian Gladwell
Vivian is the founder and director of Nose to Nose & has given hundreds of workshops around the world. He lives both in the UK and France where he started clowning in 1978. He speaks French and English fluently.
Vivian began teaching in 1988 as part of the Lifeways Festival at Emerson College – UK. He trained as a facilitator with the Bataclown in 1990 & joined their team in 1991 also working as a modern day Court Jester (Clownanalyst).
He created Nose to Nose UK in 1990, Nose to Nose of North America in 2006 & Fool View, the Social Clowning group & has trained facilitators in the UK, the USA, Germany and Italy – view history.
He continues his role as ambassador for the work by researching the applications of clowning in the context of teacher training, medicine, conflict management, ecology & intercultural work in many countries (South Africa, USA, Senegal, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, Italy, Germany, Norway…)
Dates
October 3 to 6, 2024
Times
9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. each day
Course fee: $525
Deposit: $180
Venue Ghent, NY
Accommodation: We can provide you with a list of possible accommodation options in proximity to the venue.
Meals:
Bring-your-own communal lunches.
For enquiries please email Sarah: sarahfrench@nosetonose.info
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