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Summer Weekend Workshop Suitable for complete beginners and experienced performers To Book About the Workshop This workshop course will lead you toward the discovery and emergence of your own unique clown. We use the concept of 'mask' (the red nose being the smallest of all masks) to build a personal clown mythology, and then learn how to express that through the traditional clown 'turn'. http://www.barnabyking.com/workshopscourses.html
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"What we need is a clown for our time, a clown that gives us a lerger sense of the God in each of us, that celebrates our humanness, our animlaness, and the times we can touch each other in a moment of laughter."
(Richard Pohinko, creator of 'Clown Through Mask)
"Clown is here to remind us of our extreme nature. Clowns are by nature anarchists. To teach clown is to guide people towards a new experience of themselves, how to relinquish control and embrace chaos"
(Sue Morrison, co-creator of 'Clown Through Mask' and master clown teacher)
A note on clowning:
Clowning is not just a style of performance, but a philosophy and approach to life, which can help anyone engage more fully with the world around them, open up and explore personal issues, be more open to what every moment has to offer, and laugh at their own ridiculous nature. In Native American culture, clowns often have shamanic status, and do not just perform their role in public events, but do their work of transforming, healing, intervening, educating in all spheres of life, private and public.
But clowning is of course innately performative, and we learn to clown best by spending time in front of audiences. This approach draws on European clown and mask technique, Native American concepts of shamanic clown, leading us through inward exploration and outward presentation, to guide us towards the discovery of our own personal clown.About Barnaby King:
Barnaby King is a performer, director and teacher based in Portland, Oregon and is the Artistic Director of Flawed Genius Clowning which produces diverse theatre projects in the US and internationally. In 1996 he completed a Masters in Theatre Studies at Leeds University and went on to be Associate Director with the Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah for five years, directing and performing in plays for young audiences. During this period he also began working with Sue Morrison, first in the UK in 1999, then taking the full Clown Through Mask workshop in Toronto in 2001.
In 2003 he won an Arts Council of England grant to make a show with Sue which became 'Flawed Genius'. Since then he has toured extensively with the show around the UK, Canada, USA, Colombia and Peru (South America). Barnaby is a highly sough-after clown teacher both in the US and internationally.
What students have said about Barnaby:
"Barnaby encouraged me to be more of who I am. I was truly touched by this experience."
"The clown workshop was engaging and fun, but what I appreciated most is that it challenged me, as an actor and a human being, in profound ways.You are a brilliant teacher!"