clownin 2015
Workshop 1 (Beginners)
PHYSICAL COMEDY
Teacher: HILARY CHAPLAIN Clown, Actress, Director from New York City, USA
Saturday 11/28 & Sunday 22/29 | 10am-6pm Workshop-Location: Theater Heuschreck, 1070 Wien
Price: € 150,-- (without food) for both days (2x6 hours)
Number of participants: min. 10, max. 20 (open for women and men)
Registration via email: office@clownin.at
BIC: OPSKATWW
IBAN: AT896000000510035607
The workshop is held in English and is for adults who are interested in Physical Comedy. Beginners are welcome.
This class will explore physical comedy from a clown point of view to expand your physical vocabulary and develop your comic sensibilities.
Workshop 2 (Advanced)
Advanced PHYSICAL COMEDY
Teacher: HILARY CHAPLAIN Clown, Actress, Director from New York City, USA
Saturday 12/5: 12-4 pm, Sunday 12/6: 12-7 pm & Monday 12/7: 12-7 pm Workshop-Location: IsH – Internationale Schule für Humor, 1170 Wien
Price: € 200,-- (without food) for all three days (16 hours altogether)
Number of participants: min. 8, max. 16 (open for women and men)
Registration via email: office@clownin.at
BIC: OPSKATWW
IBAN: AT896000000510035607
The workshop is held in English, previous knowledge necessary.
This class is for experienced performers of any genre, with a concentration in clown. We will cover many areas of physical comedy techniques and will apply them in creating short numbers looking at both the simplicity and the complexity of what it means to incorporate physical comedy into our work.
Discourse
Humor in the Crisis
Clown organizations working in crisis and war regions
Talks and Panel discussion
Monday 11/30/15 (7 pm)
At KosmosTheater
Organizations like Clowns without Borders and Red Noses Clowndoctors often carry out missions in regions of war and crisis, as well as in refugee camps in their own countries. For a short time they bring laughter into the lives of people who are suffering due to traumatic experiences and coping with a daily life in which there is no place for humor.
The work of these organizations will be presented in brief talks, and the speakers will explore what kind of social and artistic benefits can emerge from this work.
Speakers:
Annette Grömminger (AUT): Founder of Clowns without Borders Austria
Karola Sakotnik (AUT): Emergency Smile (RED NOSES International)
Hilary Chaplain (USA): The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Hospital Program
Karin Bergstrand (SWE): Member of Clowns without Borders Sweden
Moderation: Marty Huber (AUT): Queer-feminist activist and performance theorist
Free admission!
In English!
Tickets
Ticket reservation via karten@kosmostheater.at, resp. by thelephone (+43 (0)1 523 12 26) and starting on September 7th on www.kosmostheater.at!
Price: € 19,- | reduced € 16,- / € 15,- € 14,-/ € 11,- | savings package € 84,-
Advanced sale: € 2,- cheaper per ticket (regular/reduced tickets), if collected until 1 day prior performance
Discourse and Closing Party are free of charge!
Press support
GAMUEKL | Gabriele Müller-Klomfar
T +43 (0)699 / 19131411
service@gamuekl.org
www.gamuekl.org
Festivalleitung: Gaby Pflügl (theater super.nova), Pamela Schartner (theater super.nova), Barbara Klein (KosmosTheater)
Organisation & Production: Gaby Pflügl, Pamela Schartner
Production assistant: Teresa Kögler
Press: Gaby Müller-Klomfar
Video: Anna Konrath, Sarah Glück
Photo: Carolina Frank
Technics: Helen Farnik, Susanne Tauber, Tom Barcal, Steffi Kohlross, Philipp Diesenreiter, Johannes Fally
Organisation KosmosTheater: Katharina Koch, Johanna-Helen Dohnal
Communication KosmosTheater: Julia Grani, Regina Laschan
Vera Abud (Pelo Cano), BRA
Heather Marie Annis (Morro & Jasp), CAN
Neslihan Arol (Süper), TUR
Karin Bergstrand (Dotterbolaget), SWE
Isabel Blumenschein (Chabela Poderosa), AUT
Amelia Cadwallader (Maple Staplegun), AUS
Claudia Cantone, ITA
Hilary Chaplain, USA
Lily Curcio (Seres de Luz Teatro), ARG/BRA
Anna Dekonskaia (Clown Trio Klavy), RUS
Ekaterina Dorichenko (Clown Trio Klavy), RUS
Susanne Draxler, AUT
Hélène Gustin (Colette Gomette), FRA
Helga Jud (Tris), AUT
Teresa Kögler, AUT
Olga Kozionova (Clown Trio Klavy), RUS
Martha Laschkolnig (Martha Labil), AUT
Paola Musatti (Pelo Cano), BRA
Camilla Perssonn (Dotterbolaget), SWE
Rachel Ponsonby, BGR/BEL/
Tanja Rainalter (Tris), AUT
Elke Maria Riedmann (Brenda Feuerle), AUT
Gina Segura (Gina Napina), ESP
Tanja Simma (Anna de Lirium), AUT
Silvi Spechtenhauser, AUT
Vandereia Will (Seres de Luz Teatro), BRA
Yanomi (Shoshinz), JAP
Süper (Turkey)
Sa, 11/28 | 9 pm
"İdeal Kadın" (Ideal Woman)
Non-verbal
Austrian Premiere
By and with: Neslihan Arol | Lighting and video: Orkan Bayram
The clown “Süper” considers herself a super hero who has solved a major problem. And this is something she can be really proud of – she has discovered how to be the perfect woman! Everything is easy for Süper: She performs her skits on an empty stage with a few odds and ends, like in a general store. And the most important thing: She has a hat full of images of women. The audience can pull a piece of paper out of the hat and Süper transforms into the ideal bitch, ideal mother, or idea feminist.
Of course you can’t take it too seriously. Smiles and laughter about the stereotypical images of women that we all have in our minds are very welcome. The skit playfully demonstrates how we can deconstruct expectations. It is a critique of the idealization of being a woman, it holds up a mirror for us, and also teaches us that laughter can be a mighty social power.
Neslihan Arol was born in Istanbul, completed her master’s in film and acting at the Kadir Has University in Istanbul and is currently writing her doctoral thesis in Berlin. During her studies she attended numerous workshops, including some for clowns, which was the inspiration behind her master’s thesis "Clown as a Possibility for Women’s Theatre", which then led to the creation of her show “The Perfect Woman.” The show premiered in Istanbul and can now be seen for the first time outside of Turkey.
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