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"LAUGHTER - THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF DICTATORS"
with HELEN&HENRI BRUGAT (A/F)


For pros who love the theatre and for ambitious laymen who want to grow with laughter!
On your own you will work on your personal presence in front of the group. While working on the three points entrance, presentation and exit the participants realize with the help of their mirror = environment = group of other participants, who they are and what effect they have on others. Helen and Henri Brugat will never tell people how they should be. They always try to harmonize the inner picture of a person with the external picture, the environment has got from him/her. By moving through the group each person gets a feeling for the group, learns to notice things without really watching and to act without assessing. Through noticing the handicaps of other participants it is easier to laugh at one's own weakness and finally to love and appreciate it. Laughter takes away fear, opens the heart and allows us to meet our fellow human beings honestly, fearlessly and openly. It gives us the possibility to get to know the creation of our own very personal clown. The first part of the workshop concentrates on the person and his/her appearance, the second part works on creating a person. In the third part a story will be developed on stage using speech. Whatever happens, whatever you show us it will not, be assessed, nobody is good or bad, nobody a loser, nobody a star. Working with Helen and Henri Brugat you try to watch human characteristics with a wink, you try to love them and to be able to laugh at them. There a several ways to inner balance, Henri and Helen Brugat's way is laughter.

Classroom language: German/French/English

Helen Brugat

Actress and former member of the "Actor-Studios" in Vienna, performances in different theater productions, movies and TV.

Henri Brugat

Born as a clown, he comes from La Rochelle in France. He has been in this metier for 20 years, had a circus of his own and was amongst other things co-founder of the clown company "Die Schockerlinge".
Since 1988 they have been running several theatre seminars and they have set up the children theater "Pipifax" together. Comedy production: "La More" directed by Jango Edwards.

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