Acting : Jon davison /// workshop tomorrow! by Ursula Campbell

Come play tomorrow! TRANSMISSION /// a workshop for actors, writers + directors www.transmissionworkshop.com UPCOMING /// MON. MARCH. 12TH GUEST DIRECTOR /// JON DAVISON WORKSHOP /// FREEDOM OF THE CLOWN ___________________________________________________ UPCOMING /// MON. MARCH. 12TH GUEST DIRECTOR /// JON DAVISON Jon Davison has been a clown, teacher, director, actor and writer for the last 26 years. Co-founder in 1993 of Companyia d’Idiotes, he has toured festivals, theatres, tents, streets and bars throughout Europe from Sicily to the Arctic. He trained at the École Philippe Gaulier and Fool Time Circus School (Bristol). He taught clown, impro, and acting at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona from 1996-2006, and since 2006 has been co-director of studies at the Escola de Clown de Barcelona, the world’s leading centre offering comprehensive clown training programmes covering both practical and theoretical aspects of the clown arts. He is a visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where he recently completed a research fellowship. His first book, "Clown - a Reader in Theatre Practice", will be published later this year by Palgrave Macmillan. www.jondavison.net www.escoladeclown.eu WORKSHOP /// FREEDOM OF THE CLOWN This session will introduce the fundamentals of clowning, learning to feel and enjoy our own ridiculousness. Converting our habitual fear of ridicule into pleasure of laughing at ourselves, we can use it to make others laugh and experience the freedom of the clown. When you really look, most things are ridiculous: our bodies, our movements, our ideas, our emotions, our words, our relationships, the universe. The only aim in clowning is to turn failure into success, fear into laughter, suffering into joy. We don’t need to change ourselves, just look at everything from another perspective. It’s a human thing to do, so anyone can do it. Although only a few will choose to dedicate their lives to it, anyone can experience the clown.