Clowning for Adults led by Marcus Bale in Kinsale, Co. Cork

Clowning for Adults led by Marcus Bale in Kinsale, Co. Cork
Explore your Comedic Potential in this Weekend Course

Details:
Starts: Saturday, 20 March 2010 at 10:00
Ends: Sunday, 21 March 2010 at 16:00
Times: 10am-5pm each day
Fee: This course is offered at €120 for two days. Bring a packed lunch
or take a sandwich break in Kinsale.
Location: Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre, Ballinacurra, Kinsale, Co Cork

Throughout this workshop you will learn about your comedic potential.
We will explore it and develop it.

We will regain the pleasure of ‘Play’ with yourself and others.

Finding your clown will help you hugely to increase self-confidence
and the use of your body language. For actors and non-actors, you can
guarantee you will discover a lot about yourself. The level of the
workshop will be set according to the participants experience.

Based on tecniques coming from Jacques LeCoq, Phillip Gaullier, and
other teachers of Clowning, together with basic exercises from
Commedia dell’Arte and Improvisation, we will attempt to understand
the underlying principles of clowning:

– Do not act, just react
– A Clown is only a clown with an audience
– A Clown occurs in the audience’s mind
– Find the pleasure in everything
– Find the Game in everything
– Take your audience in the Journey

More information available on request.

About the facilitator:
Marcus Bale trained in Buenos Aires for seven years in different
Actors Studios. He also studied Improvisation, Clown, Circus, Mime,
Physical, Mask and Anthropological Theatre. In Ireland he performed
and directed a multitude of plays. Since 2002 he has been giving
workshops on Improvisation, Clowning, Commedia dell’ Arte, & the
Techniques of Jerzi Grotowski, Eugenio Barba & Augusto Boal’s Theatre
of the Oppressed, always emphasising the physical aspect of theatre.
He has taught in Ireland, Germany, Italy, Canada & Argentina. In 2001
he co-founded BYOB Productions. The same year he co-founded Cyclone
Comedy Improv Troupe. In 2002 he was co-founder of the Snatch Comedy
Improv Troupe with whom he performs all over Ireland. In 2003 he
became Teacher for the Gaiety School of Acting in Cork teaching
adults, children & teenagers. He also teaches "The Spirit of Sign",
Cork Deaf Community Drama group & is also guest teacher at the Theatre
Courses in Kinsale College of Further Education & KCAT Drama Course in
Callan, Kilkenny.

How to book?: Call 0879696901 or email (adrianwistreich@gmail.com)
your booking. A €50 deposit will be required at least 7 days before
the course dates. It is also possible to pay the deposit (or the
totality of the course) online via PayPal. In order to do this, please
go to: http://www.kinsaleceramics.com/Payments.html

More information: If you want more information or if you have any
queries, you can contact me:

Email: marcusbale@gmail.com
Phone: 0863173543

Best wishes,

Marcus
—
Marcus Bale Cornally
Snatch Comedy Improv Troupe
http://www.snatchcomedy.com

60 Abbeyview, Kinsale,
Co. Cork, Ireland
Phone: 00353214772190
Mobile: 00353863173543
Email: marcusbale@gmail.com