L´Escola de Clown de Barcelona strongly recommends these courses:

Workshop: Clown
Teacher: Jon Davison
6th-11th July, 6 days, 6 hours/day
200€ - course
210€ - food and accommodation
(we offer a discount of 120eu if you take this course together with the Devising Clown course the following week)

How can we get to the clown-state in the most direct way possible? This course will use radically simple exercises to help you experience clown at an honest, immediate and gut level. It is suited both to those with no previous experience and to those who are looking to focus on the essentials of their clowning.

Jon Davison has more than two decades of experience as a clown and clown teacher, and helped found the Escola de Clown. He is now leading the International Clown Research Project at CSSD (London University), investigating new methods in clown teaching. His last show, “Jontxu...to be” (2008), was pure improvisation based on techniques of clown presence.


Workshop: Devising Clown: 1001 ways to create clown numbers
Teacher: Jon Davison
13th-18th July, 6 days, 6 hours/day
200€ - course
210€ - food and accommodation
(we offer a discount of 120eu if you take this course together with the Clown course the previous week)

Have you begun to discover clown and want to start making your own material? Have you been working on numbers for a while, but would like to improve your creative process? Do you want to create clown material that works, for you and your audience? Do you want to perform rehearsed numbers without losing the freshness of clown?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, then this is a course for you. We will look at “1001 ways” to devise gags and numbers. As sources of inspiration we shall draw not only on your own clown but also on the knowledge of gag construction that we have inherited from past and present masters of clowning.
By the end of this workshop everyone should have enough material to be able to continue working on their own clown numbers.

Jon Davison has more than two decades of experience as a clown and clown teacher, and helped found the Escola de Clown. He is now leading the International Clown Research Project at CSSD (London University), investigating new methods in clown teaching. This year he is working on a new show, “The Encyclopaedia of Clowning”, a demonstration of clown dramaturgy.