Bouffon Intensive with Adam Lazarus
and guest instructors
This workshop is designed for both non-performers as well as professional and pre-professional actors, dancers, writers, critical thinkers and physical performers to increase their performance palette. Working in the tradition of French Master Teachers Philippe Gaulier and Jacques Lecoq, the forefathers of physical theatre, this course challenges students to take risks, hone their improvisational skills and push through performance inhibitions to find the pleasure of being present, space, rhythm, fixed point, complicity, focus, flop and play.
Why is this pleasure so important? It is with the performer's pleasure to move, to sing, to cry, to dance, to speak, that the audience is drawn in and the performer's beauty is pushed out.
Introduction to Bouffon
Monday Nov. 1, to Friday Nov. 5, 10am – 2:30pm
An introductory class. Games and exercises are used to discover students’ pleasure to mock social hypocrisies while simultaneously making audiences love you. Historically and culturally, the Bouffon traveled in groups or gangs. They stuck together and sat on the outside, in their ghettos, their swamps, looking in at the mainstream world. They watched human hypocrisies and laughed. Every now and then, they came back to do a play for the hypocrites. No subject, person or institution was spared their mockery.
Bouffon creation techniques are extremely useful for performers in all disciplines, especially those with a sense of humour. Through Jeu, students will re-discover their mental and physical agility, sensitivity, stillness and complicity in a group. The Bouffon allows the actor to be a big person in a small body and to refine their awareness of the world around them. Students are encouraged to embrace this awareness and the power of being seen and listened to.
Fees
$325 for 23 hours of instruction over 1 week ($260 for Union or previous students)
Payment plans available
Required deposit of $100 to hold a place, refundable up to one week before the workshop.
Please make cheques or money orders payable to Adam Lazarus
551 Concord Ave. #1
Toronto, ON, M4R 2R2
Pre-registration & payment is required, space is limited
(416)821-3833 OR thebouffon(at)rogers.com
Why is this pleasure so important? It is with the performer's pleasure to move, to sing, to cry, to dance, to speak, that the audience is drawn in and the performer's beauty is pushed out.
Introduction to Bouffon
Monday Nov. 1, to Friday Nov. 5, 10am – 2:30pm
An introductory class. Games and exercises are used to discover students’ pleasure to mock social hypocrisies while simultaneously making audiences love you. Historically and culturally, the Bouffon traveled in groups or gangs. They stuck together and sat on the outside, in their ghettos, their swamps, looking in at the mainstream world. They watched human hypocrisies and laughed. Every now and then, they came back to do a play for the hypocrites. No subject, person or institution was spared their mockery.
Bouffon creation techniques are extremely useful for performers in all disciplines, especially those with a sense of humour. Through Jeu, students will re-discover their mental and physical agility, sensitivity, stillness and complicity in a group. The Bouffon allows the actor to be a big person in a small body and to refine their awareness of the world around them. Students are encouraged to embrace this awareness and the power of being seen and listened to.
Fees
$325 for 23 hours of instruction over 1 week ($260 for Union or previous students)
Payment plans available
Required deposit of $100 to hold a place, refundable up to one week before the workshop.
Please make cheques or money orders payable to Adam Lazarus
551 Concord Ave. #1
Toronto, ON, M4R 2R2
Pre-registration & payment is required, space is limited
(416)821-3833 OR thebouffon(at)rogers.com
