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Presents

2010 CLOWN WORSHOPS

A NOSE OF HER OWN

&

CLOWNING AS AN INNER JOURNEY

“A clown is a poet in action. He is the story which he enacts.

The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves.
Joy is like a river: it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this is the message which the clown is trying to convey to us, that we should participate through the ceaseless flow and movement, that we should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music. This is the gift of surrender, and the clown makes it symbolically."

~ Henry Miller "The smile at the Foot of the Ladder"

Winter Clown Workshop
for Women!

Photograph: Peter Bruno

Read article about Walking the dog Theater's clown work,
published 2009 in LILIPOH Magazine

A NOSE OF HER OWN...
Winter Clown Workshop
for Women!
Presented in collaboration with
CLAIMING OUR VOICES of Berkshire County

Saturday, January 30, 2010
10 am to 5 pm
&
Sunday, January 31, 2010
1 pm - 5 pm

This workshop is for you!

Whether you are a super woman, a secretary, a mother, a daughter, a goddess, a feminist, a CEO, a wife, an artist, a muse, straight, or gay, a cheer leader, a teacher... or any or all of the above. Come celebrate and have fun!

Through learning to deepen presence and by connecting to our playful spirit we can develop and sustain the heart to be who we truly are - to trust life, each other and ourselves.

It's not about clown routines, tricks or gags. No acting or clowning experience needed. You're invited on a safe personal journey that lets our challenges become opportunities, our mistakes celebrations, and our confusions states of enlightenment. In clowning we delight in life's paradoxes.

Where?
At the Friends Meeting House
280 State Road
Great Barrington, MA

With Laura Geilen & Benedicta Bertau
Cost: $150.00
Call 518. 929. 5392 for registration - or email Laura at laura@wtdtheater.org.

Download Registration Form Great Barrington

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people"
- Victor Borge

2010 Clown Workshops:

A NOSE OF HER OWN

Winter Clown Workshop for Women
January 30 &31, 2010
Friends Meeting House
280 State Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

Download Registration Form Great Barrington

CLOWNING AS AN INNER JOURNEY

Clowning in Brooklyn!
February 27 & 28, 2010
Dance Theatre Etcetera
480 Van Brunt Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Download Registration Form Brooklyn

Clown Workshop

Photograph: Peter Bruno

The Facilitators: Laura Geilen trained in dance at the Boston Conservatory of Music, has a BA in Human Services from Lesley University, and is a graduate of the Spacial Dynamics™ Institute and the Camphill Social Therapy Training. Besides being the mother of four she’s a coach with Kaleidoscope Circus Programs www.berkcirque.com and teaches dance, Spacial DynamicsTM, circus arts, therapeutic movement, acro-yoga and clowning to kids, adults, and special needs groups in schools and privately throughout the Berkshire-Taconic area. Laura is a member of Walking the dog Theater's OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble, and trains with the North American Nose to Nose Clown Facilitator team. www.nosetonose.info	Photograph: Daniel Region

Benedicta Bertau, director, actor, clown and Producing Artistic Director/Outreach Director for Walking the dog Theater, Benedicta Bertau was born in Germany into a French/German family. She received her Waldorf teacher Training Certificate from Emerson College, England, in 1996 and her B.A. in Dance/Eurythmy from Helicon College in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2000. Benedicta Bertau trained in Physical Theater in Chile, the Chekhov Acting Method in Berlin, Germany, and Clowning in the Netherlands with Marjolein Baars of tiny hero productions.
	Photograph: Christian McManus