Angela de Castro (Brasil)

The Clowns Intelligence – The Inner Monologue

Pris 2000
Sted Oslo
Startdato 31/10/2023
Sluttdato 01/11/2023
Starttidspunkt 10:00
Sluttidspunkt 17:00

Søknadsfrist: 29. okt 2023 Løpende opptak

Kursbeskrivelsen er på engelsk, da kursets arbeidsspråk er engelsk.

When we allow the clown to think, it is amazing what they come up with!

In a clown’s world, many problems arise. Problems arise that in our world might be easily solved. But clowns have a different intelligence, which might generate many other problems until it solves the task (or not). Clowns encounter a lot of failure. Failure sustains problems. Problems become intriguing and, quite often in the clown world, funny.

Audiences love to follow clowns’ thoughts; to see clowns thinking and finding their own solutions for tasks and problems. Angela de Castro focuses this workshop on maintaining the state of clown by training the mechanism of the clown’s thoughts.

The clown’s thoughts may run between lines of text for speaking clowns (similar to an actor’s ‘sub-text’) or, for silent clowns, the text is their line of thought. Often harder than anticipated, maintaining the clown’s inner monologue allows us not to ‘drop’ the clown state.

Workshop participants will be challenged not to let their own thoughts interrupt or come before the clown’s thoughts. In a series of games and exercises participants will deconstruct the mechanism of thoughts, create space for their clown persona to think, and fill their mind with the clown’s loud voice, leaving no space for any other thoughts.

Often harder than anticipated, maintaining the clown’s inner monologue allows us to develop a true clown’s intelligence!

The workshop is suitable both for silent and speaking clowns.

The participants are asked to bring:

The participants clown’s costume and nose ( if they use noses)
Loose clothes for warm up
Props: A cup, a book, a tie, a deck of playing cards, shoes and socks

«The focus on the technical aspects of clowning was really highlighted in this workshop. I felt like I learnt new things but also consolidated knowledge I already had. I walked away with a tool kit of useful exercises and techniques.»

-Shae Rooke, actor/clown

«Angela de Castro is, in my opinion, the world’s leading researcher and pedagogue in theatre clowning, and an outstanding performer in her own right. UK theatre and theatre training is the richer for having her as a resident in this country. She has worked with major companies including the National Theatre Scotland, and makes major contribution to the training of emerging artists across the UK. Without her work, British theatre would be greatly impoverished.»

-Prof. Maggie Kinloch FHEA FRSA, former Vice Principal, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland

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Angela de Castro – Clown in Charge and Artistic Director, The Why Not Institute
Angela de Castro has been performing since she was 17 years old, beginning in her native Brazil where she was a well-known actress in theatre, film and television and director of her own theatre company. She was a member of the original cast of the ground-breaking show ‘Macunaima’ (1977-1980), which changed the face of Brazilian theatre and played to an audience of over half a million people in Brazil alone, as well as touring internationally for over two years.
In 1986 Angela de Castro moved to London to pursue her dream to study, perform and reclaim theatre clowning as a modern art form. She has toured the UK and internationally with the major contemporary theatre and circus companies and is well known as a teacher of her master class ‘How To Be A Stupid’.
Angela de Castro is one of the most loved women clowns. She is a leading theatre practitioner, actor, teacher, director and speaker. Her performances and methodology have been well recognised in the UK and abroad, awarding her, among a few, a Lawrence Olivier Award (UK), the Golden Nose Award (Spain), the Nesta Dreamtime Fellowship, an Arts Foundation Fellowship and an International Fellowship by Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama for her contribution on the art of clowning. Angela de Castro has been teaching her master classes extensively all over the world. The blend of actress work and theatre clown work makes de Castro a bold and complete actress/clown. For her, the combination of the work of the actor and the clown is of vital importance as it creates a new way of performing.
Angela de Castro has been recently performing and could be seen in ‘Treasure Island’ by Robert Louis Stevenson, (National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, London, England), ‘Under Glass’, by the Clod Ensemble 3 ‘Laughing Matters’, work in progress, , ‘Luz Nas Trevas’ feature length film (Brazil), ‘Ionesco’s ‘The New Tenant’ for the Young Vic Theatre and is well known for her clown Rough, the green clown, in the award winning Slava’s ‘Snowshow’. She creates and tours her own shows under her own company Contemporary Clowning Projects. Her shows include ‘The Gift’ , ‘My Life Is Like A Yo Yo’, ‘only fools (no horses)’ a show about the Shakespearean Fools. ‘Laughing Matters’, ‘Foreigners’ and ‘Alone: All+One’, are projects in development.

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