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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

Brenda Feuerle (Austria)

Sa, 12/5 | 7:30 pm

"Brenda Feuerle im Himmel" (Brenda Feuerle in Heaven)
In German
World premiere


© Nikolaus Walter

With: Elke Maria Riedmann
Based on an idea from: Elke Maria Riedmann and Joanna Bassi | Director: Joanna Bassi
Creative development: Caroline Richards and Nereu Afonso da Silva | Music design: Rolf Aberer
Lighting: Stefan Pfeistlinger | Costume and equipment: Evelyne M. Fricker
Videos: Anneliese Penzendorfer
Production: Verein Clownerie & Bewegungstheater

The play "Brenda Feuerle in Heaven" is the continuation of the enormous success of "Treuer wie Feuer/More Faithful than Fire" (clownin 2006). After an explosion, the fire fighter Brenda Feurle wakes up – or does she?
On one hand it's lovely: Brenda always wanted to learn to fly and is there anywhere more beautiful than a world of clouds? On the other hand: What is a fire fighter supposed do in heaven? There are no fires to extinguish, no cats to rescue.
Only when she talks to the gods does she begin to understand the extent of the "catastrophe." How did she land in this bizarre company? Angels, gods, freedom, beauty, bliss – and this is supposed to be her job from now on? Doing nothing? Brenda has a few questions for the gods. She can't just sit there and watch what's happening in the world below, after all, she's a fire fighter!
A clown show with acrobatics and dance, with wit and poetry – with earthly and heavenly issues...

Elke Maria Riedmann, theatrical training at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri/CH, Desmond Jones School of Mime in London, and Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
She has performed her solo shows – "More faithful than Fire" and "Paradise on Earth" – at all the major female clown festivals in Europe and Brazil. The documentary film "Feuer und Flamme/Fire and Flame" starring Elke Maria Riedmann accompanies her on a tour through Brazil.
Along with her work as a clown, she works in a children's theater and as an actress at the Aktionstheater Martin Gruber, KosmosTheater Bregenz, and others./p> www.elkemariariedmann.at