17-21 September/Medi, 9am - 5.30pm
£350 (£300)
Maximum 12 places
World-renowned Angela de Castro, one of the most loved female clowns, joins us this September for a unique full-time, full-on workshop exploring the state of clown. It'll be an intense, inspiring, challenging and transformatory journey, with laughs and play along the way. This workshop is a rare opportunity to work discover the secrets of the clown in a supportive environment at NoFit State in the centre of Cardiff’s cultural quarter.
For beginners and those who just want an experience of personal development, the course will take you on a transformatory journey of discovery. For those who are already clowns, this process will help you find truthfulness and depth in your clowning, encompassing the tragic as much as the comic. For actors and other performers, this process will help make your performing more real, more individual and more joyful.
Angela de Castro’s methodology has been well recognised in the UK and abroad, awarding her NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship, an Arts Foundation Fellowship and an International Fellowship by Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama for her contribution on research, performing, teaching and promotion of the art of clowning.
Come prepared for challenges and change. Changes on your approach on your work and your life, as the state of clowning/ imagination is the starting point for the creative process in any field and for the development of your creative intelligence. This workshop is demanding, intense, inspiring and emotional, with lots to discover for beginners in clowning and reassurance for those who are already clowning and need a burst of energy an inspiration to take their work further.
“I expected it to be very difficult. The truth was that the clown state was difficult for everyone, actors included. The emotions they convey are yours and they’re about you, no one else. You have to be brave to do that. The clown state is also incredibly fragile: you come out of it very easily. De Castro explained that she had discovered a few years ago that teaching was as much part of her mission as being a clown. We never once doubted how serious she was about this. She only showed a technique to help us understand, never as an opportunity to show off. But boy is she talented! I don’t think I have the ability to turn the clown state into a performance per se. Who knows… meanwhile I can see that the single most important factor behind my sweetest moments so far is flashes of courage. Let’s have more!”
Workshop Participant
For more information and an application form, please email whynotinstitute@aol.com (Angela de Castro).
