- WORKSHOP
This formation is directed to all persons who have interest in learning emotional experiences and corporal languages for personal as professional growth & adapted for professionals of psychology, education, social work, socio-cultural animation and groups’ coordination.
CONTENTS OF THE WORKSHOP:
a) Warming up: based on breathing, stretching and relaxing techniques.
b) Dynamic awakening: walking, running, getting rid of tensions by letting our body searching its own movements and impulses, rhythms and sounds, discovering its physical and mental characteristics.
c) Technical work on looking at the public, looking at partners, looking at surrendering.
d) Improvisation: how to enter on the stage, discover it, discover the space, the public, oneself and other people in this situation.
e) The
f) The interpretation: to be listening to oneself, the other one and the world around; to amplify our emotions, expressions and intentions.
g) To let oneself be surprised by itself and by the partner(s).
h) To install a situation and the space for it.
i) To develop perceptions of ourselves, partners and public by listening them with all our senses, without analysing, just expressing and playing like a child with what it makes us feel.
j) To catch the laughs and to feel how does it work & what does it makes.>….EL DUENDE!!!!!!!
THE PEDAGOGY OF THE WORSHOP
The most important is to love to be playing on stage or in the street, to love meeting and playing with oneself, the partner(s) and the public. Thus is born the expression, for ex : < I am playing in a very nice theatre creation.>.Never loose the comical notion of those activities……we are not here to be in a bad mood!!!! or we have to play with this bad mood…. n`est-ce pas???????????????????? The rigour exists but, I think, the role of a teacher is not to use of a certain authority which will put him in a relation of force towards the others, but on the opposite, to use his energy, his no-judging, his patience, his observation sense, his presence and his techniques, to transmit his passion for this kind of activity.
"DEVELOPMENT OF A WORKSHOP SEANCE"
First part:
↔ An opening ritual = to pass from the daily reality to the workshop reality. = to greet partners and recognize them.
↔ A time of relaxation = to relax with breathing. = to empty oneself from outside tensions and parasite thoughts.
↔ A warm-up for the body = to awake physical energy = to be warm not to hurt oneself. = to soften muscles and keep them softened. = to get in the right physical
↔ A warm-up for the voice = to warm up the vocal cords. = to be prepared to use different noise levels and to
↔ Work on the necessary and different basic techniques for scenic art = to manage the scenic space, to develop our trust and our listening to the other, the others…in duo, trio or more or all, developing with exercises our five senses, concentration, imagination, fantasy and memory to succeed during the improvisations.
Second part:
↔ Improvisations using techniques seen during the first part of the workshop.
↔ A closing ritual.
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PRESENTATION OF THE TEACHER
CHRISTINE EON
Is born in Paris (France). In love with street theatre, music, clown and life in general. She has been working for several years in three French Street-Theatre Companies: "La Salamandre", "L’Oboubambulle" and "Saxidromus" - eveloping this way versatility in artistic and scenic knowledge. In Saxidromus, a street brass band, she incarnates a character
Since few years, she gives theatre/clown basic workshops for actors, teachers, amateurs and street children in France, Spain, Netherlands, Albania, Cap Verdean Islands, Central Africa, Mali and Brazil. Actually living in Amsterdam, she gives a weekly "Clown Laboratory" workshop at Overtoom 301 (Amsterdam), organized by Monika Stepak (Power vs Power, World Wide Circus).
"A diversified and serious formation"
1991/1993
France (Besancon) Starts learning stage techniques by going to different theater workshops. Studies sculpture in the Besançon School of Beaux Arts. Follows regularly classical & contemporaneous African dance classes.
1994/1995/1996
Continuous formation of Classical Theater with Line Hardgrave, (Limogne). Continuous formation of Contemporaneous Theater with Enrico Clarelli, (Cahors).
1996/1997
Three intensive Clown workshops < with nose >, < clown & dance>, (School Bataclown, Toulouse) with Miriam Andreoletti. Course of Clown < without nose > with Michel Dalaire and Pierre Pilate, (Les Hommes en Noir).
1998
Clown course with Laura Hertz, (Figeac). “Scenic disposition & Ambulation of a group” course with Pierre Maurice Nouvelle, (Toulouse).
1999/2000
Three intensive workshops of “Theatre Pauvre”, (Grotowski / Stanislavski School) with Jao, (Toulouse). Work on the body, its impulsions and its improvisations. Work on rituals with masks. Together with the “Fanfare Saxidromus” intensive workshop about “searching for personages and establishing their relation to the stage”, with Nini, company. Tou' Sambal, (Forcalquier). Technical course on the “The glance of the clown” with Delphine Chevery, (Lorient).
2001
Together with the “Fanfare Saxidromus” intensive workshop on “Personage attitudes & “Scenographie””, with Tof', Cie. Okupamobil, with the aim to create a fixed performance for the street as well as for theaters, (Toulouse). International course of “Theatre Pauvre” with J.Knab, (Lorient).
2002
“Theatre Pauvre” workshop with Jao, (Toulouse). "A rich and Atypical Route" 1973
From her youth practices the theater and sings. Interrupts her studies to travel in Europe and North Africa, looking for new cultural and artistic forms.
1980
Takes residence in Granada, Spain. There gets impregnated with flamenco atmosphere and gypsy world. Teaches French and English languages. Works as a model for a famous Japanese painter, (Toshima Yasumasa - 1934-2007).
1991
Back to France. Besançon: works as Public Relations for “La Salamandre” Street & Popular Theater Cie.
1993
Takes residence in the Lot, province near Toulouse. Her encounter with the Cie. “L' Oboubambulle” during the Festival of Annonay is decisive. She works in different performances of this Cie. & in various Street Theaters Festivals, incarnating different personages and using techniques of stage fireworks being at the same time a kind of “machinist” in the Cie. Has been working with the Cie. Oboubambulle until 2004.
1995/2003
Tours all summers with the Cies. L' Oboubambulle and Saxidromus. After an intensive “without nose clown” workshop, meets the band of saxophones “Saxidromus” with whom she starts playing different percussions (huiro, maracas, tamborino, cimbales and matamosca). She gives Life to her clown “Georgette”, a tender & comical personage … playing with “What reality?” With Saxidromus records two CDs. Starts giving, as an Educational in interpretation, a regular workshop of “Discovering your own clown starting without nose” and techniques of “Street & Popular Theater” for children & adults beginners.
1998 (March)
Old Habana, Cuba. Acts in the work of Irving, “The Rose and the Student”, directed by D.Rolando, director of the oldest theater in old Habana: “La Casa de la Comedia”. 1999 (November)
Bamako, Mali. Acts in “Les Blancs” performance created between Cie. “Acte 7”, (Mali) & Cie “L’Oboubambulle” employing actors, musicians and technicians from the African Cie. “Acte 7” & from the National School of Arts of Bamako. Performance directed by P.Janvier, director of “L' Oboubambulle”& Adama Traore, Director of “Acte 7”; this performance was produced & played for the inauguration of the Festival “Theatre des Realites” and in several districts of Bamako.
1999/2000 (December/January)
Oulad Driss, Morocco. Interprets
2000 (October)
Lujnia, Albania. Gives a course of theater for young students in an UNICEF center. Participates in a project of cultural interchange with musicians. Arranges different meetings with political people in charge of cultural life.
2001 (January/May)
Cajarc, Lot, France. With Oboubambulle, creates a street performance, burlesque and medieval, interpreted by children of different ages from the State school of Cajarc. (October)
Lujnia, Albania Gives a clown workshop in collaboration with two musicians in the center of UNICEF of this city.
2001/2002 (December/March)
Mindelo, Island of San Vicente, Cap Verdian Islands.
With the help of the “French Alliance” and the “Cultural Service of the Council of Mindelo”,(ask for letters of gratefulness), organizes a formative course of Theater & Clown during three months destined to young people already initiated to stage-work; Organizes at the same time a free & similar course with a group of adolescent children with difficulties, especially girls from Social Center “Nho Djunga”; after three months work the course finished by the public representation of humorous modules created by the girls themselves; this course was thought with the desire to obtain a consciousness about the preoccupations of those teenagers like: drug addiction, alcoholism, contraception & all kind of family problems. This work obtains positive & therapeutic effects on them, (ask for letters of gratefulness).
2002
Annonay, La Flèche, Aurillac, France. Summertime
Interprets together with 1 actor & 2 actresses but in duo the work of Carlos.Liscano: “Les Nigauds”; “Absurd Theater” presented in the festivals mentioned above. Limogne, Lot. Gives an intensive “Clown” workshop. Creates an” Experimental Clown & Theatre” course during 1 year.
2003/2004(December/March)
Republic of Central Africa
Invited by the V.Manbachaka, director of the Cultural Center of Bangui organizes & gives a “Theater /Clown” course destined to the Center African actors. Organizes & gives a similar course for the “Street children” with the aim of presenting to public a performance created and played by these children. This performance was presented in many places of Center Africa, (ask for “Bilan tournee Piriri”). Organizes & gives several similar courses in different structures such as “SOS Enfant Village”, “Protestant Solidarity” “La Voie du Coeur” & other catholic organizations, (ask for letters of gratefulness).
(June/August)
Brazil
Organizes & gives Spanish classes using “Stage techniques”, a method she imagined and proved with the collaboration of the Association of Neighbors of Olivenca (Baya).
(September/October)
France
Acts in the first Theater & “Black” Clown scenario written by Stephanie Benson: “Jours de pluie” directed by Serge Added and presented to public in Périgueux and Reims.
2005(January/May)
France, Limogne
Organizes & gives Theater/Clown workshops for adults and children in Lugagnac (Lot). Organizes free evenings of “Improvisations” for people to meet & have a good time.
(June)
Pau
Gives an international Clown workshop in collaboration with L' Oboubambulle & the “Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture Berlioz ». Course in French, English and Spanish simultaneously; those workshops are parts of an International Street Theatre course, ending up by the creation of a Spectacular Parade: “Reve de Ville”. (August).
Verfeil/ Seye
Festival “Des Croches Et la Lune”. In collaboration with Garence Prevost, plastic artist & on concepts from Pascal Gautier, musician imagines & build an animated place like a “Fantastic Kiosk” making natural & fruity ice-creams. Limogne (October until March 2007)
Organizes & gives a Theater/Clown course for adults. Takes part in different children workshops during their “Green classes” (Lorières, Aveyron), in diverse schools (Martel, Cajarc, Lot) and in courses organized by Houses of Culture (Pradines, Pau).
2006
France, Italy, Belgium, Spain (October, November, December).
Tours with L’ Oboubambulle.
(February).
Bamako, Mali
Organizes and gives free Theater/Clown course to a group of fourteen young people from Dogodouman, (outskirts of Bamako).
(all the year).
Limogne, France,
Organizes & gives weekly Theater/Clown workshops for adults and children. Organizes free & open afternoons of
(April, May, June).
Pau/Zaragoza, Spain
Gives three intensive “Clown and Dietetic “workshops in collaboration with G.Prevost in the House of Culture Berlioz. These courses were requested by the District Women Association with the goal to prepare healthy food and serve it as “Clowns” during the Festival Rệve de Ville. Gives a Clown course in French, English & Spanish simultaneously, this course is part of an International Street Theatre course, organized by the House of Culture & L' Oboubambulle for the creation of the Festival < Rệve de Ville >.
2007(February/March).
Amsterdam
Gives an intensive course of Clown organized by Monika Stepak, coordinator of “Worldwidecirkus Association”.
(April).
Zaragoza, Spain
Gives an intensive course of Clown with two other Spanish professionals of the subject, Antonio Palomares & Antonio Pablo. This course was developed during the first Clowns Festival of Zaragoza, organized by T.Zarranlaga, coordinator of “Entrepayasaos Association “.
(from May to today)
Ayamonte, Spain
With Pascal Gautier, saxophonist / clarinetist & Carlota Alonso Arana, actress, creates a Theater Company, “Lola Menta Productions”. Together they create a Comical/Musical & Theatre show: “Where is my Place?” one hour of sketches based on texts of Chekhov, Alonso, and Pavlovski. They present “Where is my Place” in several bars & cultural centers of Ayamonte such as:” The Library”, “the Alcaravan”, during the “Gastronomical Festival of the Guadiana” as well as the “Andeva Festival” of Calañas, (Huelva). Animates the ANTI-TOXICOLOGIA DAY organized by ASPREATO, Ayamonte. Organizes & gives the first intensive Clown workshop in Ayamonte.
Netherlands-Amsterdam (October)
Gives a second intensive Clown workshop organized by Monika Stepak in the structure “World Wide Circus” (Amsterdam).
2008 (February)
Spain
Organizes & gives second Clown workshop in Ayamonte. Gives a Clown course for professors within a project of “Circus in the school”, organized by the Council of Provincial Education of Huelva (CEP of Aracena).
(March)
Holland,(Amsterdam).
Gives a third intensive Clown workshop for “Worldwide circus”
(April)
France,(Lot).
Gives an intensive Clown workshop in the structure “L' Usine a Croquettes’”. Gives a two weeks Theater course for young people from difficult districts in a state center of Villefranche,(Aveyron) during the “Green Classes” with the purpose of presenting a small play studied previously with their teachers.
(May)
Spain
Gives three workshops of “Theatre Techniques as keys for “Teaching French language to children”, for French professors from Aracena, (Huelva) within “the Days for the Didactics of the Foreign Language”, organized by the Council of Provincial Education of Huelva (CEP of Aracena).
(June)
Netherlands-Amsterdam
Gives the fourth intensive Clown workshop for “World Wide Circus”.
(September/October)
Spain
Participates in the formation of a “Batucada” & a collective,( C.A.C) for the development of the culture in Ayamonte.
(November)
Netherlands-Amsterdam
Gives the fifth Clown workshop for Worldwide circus and With “Rebel act Clowns’ participates to an ANTIKAPITALISMO Street performance.
(final 08 / February 09)
Spain
With a French saxophonist /clarinetist, (Pascal Gautier) and a Spanish violinist, (Andrea Pallero) creates a trio “CALLEVUELVA59', with a repertoire mixing Klezmer / Celtic/ de valse and Capverdian rhythms; they play in several places of the Coast of the Light and in the Algarve (Portugal).
(February / March)
Netherlands-Amsterdam
Gives the sixth Clown workshop organized by Worldwide circus. Teaches Theater techniques in a Clown Laboratory workshop every Thursday in Overtoom 301.
