Emotional Hygiene for the Clown

No, this isn’t therapy. One of the clown’s main tools is their elastic control over emotion and ability to share it with others. In this workshop we will focus on our emotional shapes, i.e. the gestures of our emotions, while playing with levels of intensity. Let’s ring out the damp towel of our emotions together. Through gameplay. Again, not therapy. Also not “method” so please don’t traumatize yourself here. We’ll work from an outside-in approach.

This 3-hour workshop is open to all. A basis of clown is helpful but not necessary. This work will be firmly rooted in the world of theatrical red nose clown but has wide ranging application.

$35+HST

July 8th, 6:30-9:30pm

@ Sweet Action Theatre

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This is the second of three drop-in workshops Red Nose Remedy is offering this summer to focus on practicing the performance tools of the clown. Each workshop happens on the 2nd Monday of the summer months. The dates & topics are:

• June 10th: Soft Skills for the Clown
• July 8th: Emotional Hygiene
• August 12th: Simplicity & the Mundane

Andrew Gaboury has been clowning for a decade, studying closely with Helen Donnelly and performing at festivals and on stage nationally (World Stage Design 2022, Calgary) and internationally (Ei! Marionetas, Portugal). As a collaborating artist with Frog in Hand, Andrew leads the Summer Company in clown training and performance. Andrew’s clown projects have performed for thousands of audience members at events and festivals across the GTA. Andrew is also acting executive director of and a therapeutic clown practitioner with Red Nose Remedy, a therapeutic clowning not-for-profit that brings the art of clown to people in healthcare settings through compassionate connection, lightness and joy.