We proudly present the Poetic Comedy-A Clown Research workshop held in Agora
Clown is a contemporary stage discipline that intersects with many different stage arts, inviting both the performer and the audience to a funny and poetic journey with their own unique tools.
Its philosophy is based on losing and accepting everything, not success. It is a compliment to failure. It explores the limits of falling and losing.
Asking the player to surrender himself completely to the game; It is a style that provides the discovery and acceptance of the player’s own naive world, his own unique game material, where truth, openness and vulnerability are indispensable.
Targeted in the workshop; Based on Jacques Lecoq pedagogy and examining different clown pedagogies, the basic working methods of physical theater and clown discipline are shared with the participants.
During the workshop, we will focus on acting techniques masked through the “red nose”, which we can define as the smallest mask in the world, and the final goal will be to have a solo performance that each participant can perform on stage and to create a clown character.
Questions to be Answered by the Workshop;
-How are the physical elements of the Narrative constructed with the body and the vocal instrument?
How to become a qualified playmaker?
-What do we laugh at, how do we laugh?
– How is a game produced from the perspective of the writer, director and designer?
-How does each participant build their own Clown character through psychosomatic analysis, Neutral Mask, Larval Masks and Red Nose mask?
-How are solo, duo and choral plays set up, staged and performed?
-How does the player bring his unique game material to the game person? How to establish the link between the personal and the playful?
-How do the player’s game skills and intuition develop through masks and by using the ‘red nose’ mask in this workshop? How does the funny come out?
While the basic principles of physical theater will be conveyed throughout the workshop, these studies will be supported by examples from Lecoq 20 Movements and movement studies inspired by different movement systems. The workshop will end with a Clown performance open to the audience