First Year

Acting : personnal training. Improvisation is the core of this year work. The aim is to become capable of approaching the requirements of a clown

Techniques required :
  • Body musicality : rythm, tempo, silences.
  • Acting clarity : stillness, clear identification of intentions, the way you look and what you look at.
  • Attention to the partner : where the focus is, major / minor tones
  • The variety of emotions
Play and re-play :
  • Playing openly to the public
  • Masked, neutral, embryonic, expressive play
  • Characters built from the re-play of characters taken from everyday-life, from animals, or from the sporting world.
Highlighting the clown's first moments : how to project each student's "world" : his/her sensitivity, his/her attitude to others (sociable, solitary, pleasant, awful, familiar or far-away, one of ours or from elsewhere, down to earth or not, intellectual or sporting, wonderfully sly or terribly candid . . .) ; his/her physique : rhythm, behavior, look ; the reactions to the flop.

The clown's assets :
  • Music : theory, instruments, band
  • Circus techniques
  • Slapping and various hitting techniques
  • How to handle objects
  • Writing workshop : for short performances only

2009/2010

Main classes (2 days per week)
- clown
- circus
- music
- writing
- movement
- clown's asset (mask, slapping, falling)

Optional
- Singing, tap dance, text, dance and music
- Burlesque, bouffon

Band
- classes, workshop, reharsals and parades