CLOWN WORKSHOP
with CARLO JACUCCI
in DUBLIN

On 7 and 8 January 2023 Carlo Jacucci will be in Dublin for this two-day intensive Clown Workshop at Dance House, where performers from all disciplines, novices, people with diverse backgrounds will learn how clowns work to discover their own unique talents, create together and write their shows, with a teacher who has an extensive experience in teaching performers from all over the world.

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This is a workshop about laughter and being funny. Not so much with conventional gags and routines – though we will touch on some of these – but more so with anything special, silly, foolish and free that is especially unique to you, which of course might not be enough either. Because being silly is not always funny. And being foolish is not necessarily humourous nor charming. This workshop is also about failing, and not hiding it. It is about overcoming the fear of derision, and discovering the pleasure of making people laugh through silliness; learning to be funny by chance; learning to treasure some of the most nonsensical, surprising and absurd performance ideas.

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In this workshop we will approach clown as a form of art. You will learn the pleasure of being funny in your own peculiar, unique ways. You will practise different relationships between clowns, learn to work with clown scripts, routines and skills, and discover how to exploit conflicts: how you can play with problems and use them as a fabric for creation.

You will learn to cherish mistakes: how to search for good errors, make them shine and build a scene around them, and the variety of faults, flaws, missteps, goofs, slipups, bungles, lapses, oversights, slights, stumbles, glitches, misunderstandings, misjudgements, miscues, trespasses, gaffes, and transforming them into triumphs or catastrophes.