Winter
Clown Workshop
HOW TO BE A STUPID
clown workshop with Angela de Castro
THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS
with Barry & Joan Grantham
I LIKE TO SING IN THE BATH with
Juliet Hill
Mon 12 – Sun 25 Jan
Mon - Fri 9.30am-6pm
Choir performance dates: Sat 24 & Sun 25 Jan
Course fee £350
Venue: Lavender Hill, London SW11
Bookings: The Why Not Institute 020 7739 8363
Led by Angela de Castro, Founder/Director of The Why Not Institute,
with guest teachers Juliet Hill and Barry & Joan Grantham,
this is an opportunity to learn clowning, group singing and eccentric
dancing, putting them all together into an exciting performance
of The Why Not Institute’s clown choir, the HaHarmonics,
at BAC.
How To Be A Stupid is a practical clowning and performance
craft workshop about the profound search for the clown within.
Clowning is not a technique but a state and the aim is to encourage
participants to find their path to this state. As an introduction
to de Castro’s method, the workshop builds trust, confidence
and a common vocabulary among the participants. It works as a
process of discovery for beginners and reassurance for those who
are already clowning and need a burst of energy and focus. This
workshop is inspiring, emotional, reassuring, energetic and not
for the faint-hearted. Be ready to work hard, have homework, think,
be challenged and laugh!
There’s No Business Like Show Business is led by Barry
& Joan Grantham. In this workshop there will be a chance to
learn time-honoured Show Biz routines, as well as eccentric steps
made famous by performers like Max Wall, Little Tich, Rubberneck
Jackley, and Snakehips Johnson!
I Like To Sing In The Bath is led by Juliet Hill. This
workshop is for everyone who wants to develop their rhythm and
pitch, develop a better ear, and learn to sing more confidently
with others and on their own. If you like singing in the bath,
if you’ve ever wanted to put singing into your performing
but never felt confident enough to do it, then this workshop is
for you!
To book: Contact The Why Not Institute for a booking form
and for any queries on 020 7739 8363 The Why Not Institute, People
Show Studios, Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
E-mail: whynotinstitute@aol.com
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"This
is a wonderful self-contained course which we ran very successfully
in Edinburgh in summer 2003. The singing and dancing act as
supporting disciplines to the clowning, giving students a
great chance to put it all together immediately in a performance
at the end of the school." Angela
de Castro
Since
moving to England from her native Brazil 17 years ago, de
Castro has developed an international reputation as a master
clown teacher, performer and director. De Castro is a Nesta
(National Endowment for Science Technology & the Arts)
Dream Time Fellow and a 2003 Arts Foundation Awardee. She
toured with groundbreaking contemporary circus groups and
is well known for her clown ‘Rough’ in the award-
winning Slava’s Snowshow. She has extensively
toured her own shows, The Gift and My Life Is Like
A Yo Yo and currently has a show about Shakespeare’s
fools, only fools no horses, and a Clown Opera in development.
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