NEW RESIDENTIAL COURSES

AT "CAL CLOWN"
     
 

Hospital Clowning

 Teacher:Núria Pereto

  

 

30th April – 3rd May 2010
4 days, 6 hours per day  

Time of arrival: 29th April at 8pm, you will be picked up at Figueres train station.
Time of departure: 3rd May at 7pm. We will take you to Figueres train station.

 

€300
cost of tuition, accomodation and all meals from the evening of 29th April until lunch on 3rd May

It is scientifically proven that laughter has an unlimited therapeutic effect, and for many years clowns have visited hospitals, since it has been shown that the happiness that is produced leads to a speedier recovery.

Through games and improvisatios, we will learn how to behave as a clown in a hospital. We will learn what a clown can and can’t do in a hospital setting, which resources to use in different areas of a hospital and with different illnesses. No previous experience is required.

The course includes a visit to a hospital and a children’s centre. On Saturday 1st May we have the pleasure of seeing the performance of Circ Petit, “Can Res Més”, at 6pm.


 

 

Núria Pereto  has been a clown since 2003 and is president and founder of the Hospital Clown Association “Salut i Clowns”. She works regularly in a variety of hospitals, and trained with Pilar Peran (Pallapupas), Mercè Candó (Hospiclown), Sergi Claramunt (Pallassosospital), Fernando Córdoba (Médicos de la Risa) and Veronica Macedo (Saniclown).
 

 

  
     
 

Creating Clown Numbers

 Teacher: Jon Davison

 

 

10th-14th May 2010
5 days, 6 hours/day

Time of arrival: 9th May at 8pm, you will be picked up at Figueres train station.
Time of departure: 14th May at midnight. (Students may leave then or spend the night at Cal Clown ad leave by noon on the 15th). We will take you to Figueres train station.

 

€350
cost of tuition, accomodation and all meals from the evening of 9th May until breakfast on 15th May

 

Have you begun to discover clown and want to start making your own material? Have you been working on numbers for a while, but would like to improve your creative process? Do you want to create clown material that works, for you and your audience? Do you want to perform rehearsed numbers without losing the freshness of clown?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, then this is a course for you. We will look at “1001 ways” to devise gags and numbers. As sources of inspiration we shall draw not only on your own clown but also on the knowledge of gag construction that we have inherited from past and present masters of clowning.
By the end of this workshop everyone should have enough material to be able to continue working on their own clown numbers.

The course includes a performance by the students on 4th May at 10pm at “El Local” in Figueres.


 

Jon Davisonhas more than 25 years experience a clown and clown teacher. Former teacher at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, he is now leading the International Clown Research Project at CSSD (London University), investigating new methods in clown teaching. He trained at L’École Philippe Gaulier y Fool Time Circus School (Bristol).

www.jondavison.net
     
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

    
 

How to get there:
By car: take the motorway AP7 and leave by Exit 5 (direction L’Escala). Continue towards Bàscara, and once you have passed through Bàscara stay on the N-II towards Figueres. Turn left at the sign “Pontós 3” at km744. Follow this road (GI-5216) until you reach a track to your left at km3, with a sign to “Cal Clown”, and from there follow the signs which will bring you to the house.
By train: take the train to Figueres and we will pick you up from the station.
 
When to get there:
For all courses you should arrive the evening before the first day. We will arrange car-sharing from Barcelona, and so if you have a vehicle we would be grateful if you could let us know.

How to register for a course:

Please send us an email indicating which course you are interested in. We will let you know if there are places available. To reserve your place, please pay the course cost into the school’s account: 2038-8919-20-3000047202 (Caja Madrid). Please include your name and the name of the course as a reference. If you are paying from a non-Spanish account, please ask us to send you details for international transactions.