2012 Workshops
The State of Clown or
The Clown’s Intelligence
Led by Angela de Castro
Dates: Mon 9 > Fri 13 Jan, 09.30 > 18.30
Venue : People Show Studios, Pollard Row,
Bethnal Green, London E2 6NB
FULLY BOOKED
A regular LIMF highlight in recent years, The
State of Clown 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
respected female 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.
A busy touring schedule keeps Angela de
Castro abroad for much of the year so this
is a rare opportunity to attend her workshop
in London. Early booking recommended. www.thewhynotinstitute.com
A Graphic Eye
Led by Iain Lanyon
Sat 14 Jan, 10:30 > 15:30
Central School of Speech & Drama
Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
£25 Bookings:workshops@mimelondon.com
A one day workshop to revolutionise
the way you communicate, rethink your
Company’s graphic identity, or just look at
the world in a different way. Bring a small
camera if you can and some graphics
you want to share. Suitable for ages 16
and over, aimed at professionals, theatre
students, and other enthusiasts.
Iain Lanyon is a graphic designer with
30 years experience of designing for the
theatre, including the Mime Festival.
The Theatrical Body
Led by Autour du Mime
Sun 15 Jan and Mon 16 Jan
10:30 > 15:30
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
FULLY BOOKED
A one-day mime workshop, exploring ways
to create a powerful, physical language,
using the body only.
Sara Mangano and Pierre-Yves Massip
both studied with Marcel Marceau,
subsequently becoming members of his
performing company. They have taught
throughout Europe, passing on original
ideas and techniques inspired by the work
of three celebrated French masters, Marcel
Marceau, Etienne Decroux and Jacques
Lecoq. Their workshop seeks to discover
the full range of body expressivity, nuances
of movement and dramatic gesture.
Ages 18+. Suitable for theatre, dance and
circus school students and professionals.
Participants should wear clothes suitable for
movement-based work.
Puppet Manipulation
Led by Liz Walker from Invisible Thread
Sat 21 Jan 10:30 > 16:00
Central School of Speech & Drama
Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
FULLY BOOKED
This workshop will concentrate on
manipulation and simple improvisation,
using two person puppets, materials
and objects. Suitable for ages 18 and
over, aimed at professionals, theatre
and puppetry students, and enthusiasts
who wish to explore puppetry and gain
more confidence in techniques, play and
observation.
The Storytelling Body
Led by Theatre Ad Infinitum
Sat 21 > Sun 22 Jan 10.30 > 16.30
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
FULLY BOOKED
This is a unique opportunity to dive
headfirst into a productive theatrical
environment that explores storytelling
via a Lecoq-style method that will push
the physical limits of the actor as a
creative theatre maker. The workshop will
explore how the actor in an empty space
can bring to life an abundant world of
characters, spaces, colours, emotions and
‘atmospheres’ with the body alone. Together
we will search for each performer’s specific
and individual storytelling style, and gestural
language. In the final part of the weekend
participants will create a short devised solo
piece for performance.
It encompasses all of the mime-style work
used in our productions, but especially
in Translunar’s flashbacks, and it’s about
uncovering each individuals gestural
language (we all have one, believe it or
not) and harnessing it in a theatrical way
through storytelling -the results are always
fascinating, rewarding and exciting.
Ages 18+. Suitable for university students,
drama school students and theatre artists.
Presented in association with Barbican Weekend
Extreme Puppetry
Led by Mark Down of Blind Summit
Sat 28 Jan 10.30 > 16.30
Central School of Speech & Drama
Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
FULLY BOOKED
Blind Summit Theatre is doing for Japanese
Bunraku Puppetry what South Park did for
cartoons: subverting and reinventing the
art-form for modern audiences. With Blind
Summit it’s not just the puppets that are
manipulated. Using their skills they create
highly inventive and engaging physical
theatre where the actors manipulate
objects, furniture, the set and each other.
This one day masterclass is an opportunity
to work with Mark Down, co-artistic director
of the company, to gain some experience
of their methods of working. It will cover
the basic concepts of breath, focus and
fixed point. Participants will learn to channel
their acting skills into an object or puppet
to bring it alive and to work closely with
two other puppeteers using Blind Summit’s
unique improvisational performance technique.
For experienced puppeteers and/or actors
with an interest in learning puppetry.
Participants should wear clothes that are
suitable for movement and soft shoes or
trainers.
Devising Theatre and Performance
Led by Thomas Prattki, Founder and
Director of LISPA
Sat 28 > Sun 29 Jan 10:00 > 16:00
London International School of Performing
Arts (LISPA) The Old Lab, 3 Mills Studios,
Three Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU
£100 for the two days
Bookings:
welcome@lispa.co.uk
or call 020 8215 3390 www.lispa.co.uk
A new generation of performing artists is
changing the landscape of today’s theatre.
What began a few decades ago as an
avant-garde movement has changed the
vision of main stream 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.
This two-day workshop taught by Thomas
Prattki, will give an introduction into
LISPA’s teachings for the devising artist. It
addresses all performers, dancers, actors,
directors and teachers in the field of the
performing arts who have an interest in the
idea of creating original work.
Booking & Access Information
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