To take this course, you will need to have done either this year's Level 1 (see the RSI week one course "Courage to Be—A Clowning Course") or a similar course.
 
This Level 2 course continues the Level 1 work offering further practice of clowning with the focus on structure and relationship. The more demanding aspects of this level come from a need to practice responsiveness to, and awareness of, your partner on stage, your audience and the images, stories and characters that emerge during improvisation.
 
Our work will bring greater insights into the techniques of improvisation and performance and it will be a step toward Social Clowning and the Facilitator's Training planned for 2011. For more information please visit, nosetonose.info.
Class size is limited, please register early.

VIVIAN GLADWELL

VIVIAN GLADWELL lives and works in France as a modern day Court Jester and facilitator with various businesses and teaches clowning with the Bataclown. Vivian discovered clowning in 1978 and founded Nose to Nose in 1990 to promote a new approach to teaching this work in the UK and elsewhere. He regularly gives workshops at Emerson College, the Blackthorn Trust Medical Centre in the UK, and at a number of Waldorf teacher training institutes in Germany, places inspired by the teachings and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.

LAURA GEILEN

LAURA GEILEN teaches dance, Spacial Dynamics®, circus arts, therapeutic movement, acro-yoga and clowning to kids, adults, and special needs groups in Waldorf schools, Camphill and privately. Laura is a facilitator with Nose to Nose of North America, is a workshop leader with Walking The Dog Theater and a member of OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble.  Her mission is to spread the grace of finding our own love-filled inner resource, our inner clown, to accompany us on the joy and sorrow-filled roads of life.