Workshops and Lecture
How To Be A Stupid
or The Clown's Intelligence
with Angela de Castro
BAC - Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TF
Thu 8 to Sun 18 Jan 9.30am-6.30pm
Bookings:
Email whynotinstitute@aol.com
Phone: 44 (20) 7739 8363
‘How To Be A Stupid’ is a unique workshop, a full time full-on course exploring the state of clown - an intense, inspiring, challenging and
transformatory journey, with laughs and play along the way.
For Angela de Castro, clowning is not a technique but a ‘state’. Through practical exercises and games, this energetic workshop helps you find your clown persona and experience it in this ‘state’. It gives truthfulness and depth to your clowning, embracing the tragic as much as the comic. For actors and other performers, it helps make performance more real, individual and joyful. For beginners, it is a
journey of discovery.
Angela de Castro is one of the most loved women clowns. She has been awarded fellowships with Nesta Dreamtime, the Arts Foundation and the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She is well known for creating the Green Clown in Slava’s Snowshow.
www.thewhynotinstitute.com
Viva La Commedia -
The Pillars of Physical Theatre
with Didi Hopkins and
Ninian Kinnear-Wilson
The Blue Room, Spirit Level,
Southbank Centre
Sat 17 to Sun 18 Jan 10am-6pm
£85 for the 2 days
Bookings: 0871 663 2527
Further information:
didi@dell-arte.co.uk
Explore the DNA and nuts and bolts of physical theatre with director Didi Hopkins and mask-maker Ninian Kinnear-Wilson. Discover the actor's role as author/ editor/ performer, how to play an audience, and what makes theatre work. Open to all who are interested in serious fun and need their energy and spirit ignited, this two day workshop goes deep into the world of commedia. It looks at masks, characters, archetypes and comic scenarios – the roots and routes that make commedia a vital and important foundation of contemporary theatre. Suitable for all levels of experience. Participants must be over 18.
Creating Theatre and Performance
led by thomas Prattki
LISPA
the old Lab, three Mills Studios,
three Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU
Sat 24 - Sun 25 Jan 10am > 5pm
£100 for the two days
Further information by email only:
welcome@lispa.co.uk
A new generation of performing
artists is changing the landscape
of modern theatre. What began a
few decades ago as an avant-garde
movement has changed the vision
of mainstream theatre as well. the
idea of the performer as a creator
of her/his own work is no longer a
fringe phenomenon, but reflects the
broad desire of an entire generation
of performers to develop their very
own artistic voice and to take creative
responsibility in shaping their vision of
life.
Led by thomas Prattki, founder and
director of the London International
School of Performing Arts (LISPA) this
two-day physical and improvisational
workshop will give an insight into the
teachings of the school and its unique
vision of an integral theatre pedagogy
for the performing arts. Suitable for
performers, dancers, actors, directors
and teachers in the field of the
performing arts with an interest in the
idea of creating original work.
www.lispa.co.uk
2009 LIMF Lecture: Dick McCaw
The actor - a reluctant mover
ICA theatre
Sat 24 Jan, 2.30pm
All seats £5
tickets: 020 7930 3647
Dick McCaw’s talk for LIMF09
examines the importance of movement
to the actor’s art. With reference to
the work of Lecoq, Decroux and other
20th century masters it focuses on the
work of Geraldine Stephenson, his own
movement mentor (and coach to such
well-known actors as Leonard Rossiter
and Maureen Lipman) and in turn on
her teacher – the legendary pioneer of
movement and dance – Rudolf Laban.
Dick McCaw co-founded Actor’s
touring Company with John Retallack
in 1978, and the Medieval Players with
Carl Heap in 1981.
From 1993-2001 he was artistic
director of the International
Workshop Festival, programming
an annual series of practical
workshops with leading figures
in the performing arts
including Jacques Lecoq, Lev
Dodin, Keith Johnstone, Katie
Mitchell and Phelim McDermott.
He is currently Senior Lecturer in
Drama at Royal Holloway,
University of London, a qualified
Feldenkrais practitioner and is
working on the Routledge
Companion to Laban as well as
the Complete Laban toolkit for
Nick Hern Books.
Dick McCaw will also chair most of this year's after show discussions
After-show Discussions
Usually the first performances to sell-out, this is your chance to chat to the artists about their work and ask them any questions. We try to keep these discussions as informal as possible - they will be led by Dr. Dick McCaw, except RedCape Theatre on 24 Jan, which will be led by Andrew Dawson.
Post-show Meet the Artist Dates:
Sun 11 Jan Collectif Petit Travers, Purcell Room
Mon 12 Jan Figurentheater Tübingen, ICA Theatre
Wed 14 Jan Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes, The Pit, Barbican Centre
Thu 15 Jan Theatre of Silence/Ex-Machina Athens, Purcell Room
Fri 16 Jan Aurélien Bory, Barbican Theatre
Mon 19 Jan Akhe, ICA Theatre
Tue 20 Jan Circus Klezmer, Purcell Room
Wed 21 Jan Les Apostrophés, The Pit, Barbican Centre
Wed 21 Jan Familie Floez, Corn Exchange, Newbury
Thu 22 Jan Sharmanka (after 7.15pm performance), Shunt Vaults
Thu 22 Jan Faulty Optic, Shunt Vaults
Fri 23 Jan Tomas Kubinek, Purcell Room
Sat 24 Jan RedCape Theatre, ICA Theatre
Sat 24 Jan Familie Floez, Queen Elizabeth Hall
