"CLOWN ACTING"
with PEPA PLANA (CAT)
The present course will try to show to its students its characteristic clown philosophy. There are 10 clown thoughts:
- It is no clown manner. Each clown is the only one and she grows in her own particularities and characteristics.
- How you respond to the situation makes it funny or interesting, but not the situation itself is funny or interesting.
- Create your own gestures and common practices in order to react to happy or sad situations.
- Clown needs the audience abetment and permission to create.
- Emotions are easy obvious, produced by the situation.
- Clowns have problems with everything, mainly with simple things.
- Logic of clown: clown world is very logic in its structure.
- Clown is optimistic; she always thinks that she can solve even the worst problems.
- Clown always thinks what she does is nice.
- Each one has, at least, two persons inside: the one who everybody sees and the one that we believe that we are. This is a secret person and it is the person in our dreams where the clown lives.
Notice: participants must come with clothes (dress, hats, bags...) and objects to play and share
Classroom language: English/Spanish - with translator!
Pepa Plana is Bachelor of Dramatic Art in the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (1989) and she completed her education with Ariane Mnouchkine, Avner Eisenberg or Ángela de Castro, among more professionals. She created her own company, Pepa Plana, after 10 years in comic theatre inside the company called Pretèrit Perfecte - she was founder member too.
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