clownin 2015

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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.

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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.

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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!

 

Financial support:

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

Colette Gomette (France)

Mi, 12/2 | 7:30 pm

„Colette Gomette Présidente”
Non-verbal – with little French
Austrian Premiere


© Renata Pires

Colette Gomette: Hélène Gustin | Written and directed by: Ami Hattab und Hélène Gustin | Stage design: Charles Rios | Costume: Martha Romèro | Lighting: Jocelyn Pras | Assistant: Odile Grippon

„Vote for Colette Gomette!“
Hired as security for the new French presidential candidate, she unfortunately knocks out the candidate and slips into her role in order to cover up the mistake. Tough luck. The question is for whom.

The feisty, unrefined, animalistic, and fierce Colette Gomette suddenly finds herself in her element. She hops and jumps, races and listens, she whines and snorts, she discovers the world of politics with passion. Totally wired, she entrances her listeners and enjoys her power, maybe even too much. The world – full of arrogance, megalomania, intolerance, unfairness, and extortion – stops at nothing, not even a clown, or did we misunderstand something?
Colette Gomette invents a poetic clown, who is above our world and offends everyone in our code-filled society. A skit with profound humor evoking hearty laughter.

Hélène Gustin aka Colette Gomette, has been pursuing her clown career since 1996, primarily on stage but also on the street and at all kinds of events. She also works as a clown doctor in a hospital with the French organization Rire Médecin.
Colette Gomette is one-of-a-kind; after her training with Jacques Lecoq, she acted in several plays, put five clown shows on stage, and went on a number of world tours. She also runs workshops, is a trained jazz dancer, burlesque artist, and founded BEC (Brigade d’Ecriture Clownesque) in 2012. As the artistic director she runs seminars in which participants are taught to write clown skits and put them on stage.

colette.gomette.free.fr