Want to find out more about the clown workshops ?
We offer intensive clowning workshops with the help of improvisational theatre and Benevolent Communication inspired by NVC. These clown workshops will enable you to develop your creativity and artistic universe, do some personal development, have fun and create a quality bond with others. Changing the world starts with you!
Our workshops are aimed at clowns, artists, people interested in personal development or therapists and coaches who want to care for others in a different way.
The themes are authenticity, vulnerability, interaction and creation, and the creative clown. Thanks to theatre clowning, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, full of madness, surprises and fantasy! Discover yourself and your potential!
You can choose between 2 intensive workshops !
International intensive workshop « Interactive, authentic and vulnerable clown» (Level 1) in Lille
Reconnect with your clown self, your poetry and humour, and offer it to the audience. Let’s explore all the dimensions of your creativity and potential.
Are you ready to connect with your audience, to dare to be authentic and vulnerable so that you can touch them as you perform?
We’ll give you the tools you need to express yourself. Immerse yourself for 5 to 6 days to support your clowning.
By playing with your inner self, you’ll be able to release your emotions, share your joys and sorrows, rediscover yourself and express your emotions in a different way. You’ll come away with new artistic and interpersonal skills.Meet the actor in you and your clown, your inner child, and celebrate the joy of life with them.
Intensive workshops « Creative clown, writing and creation » (Level 2)
Do you have experience of the stage and of clowning, and would you like to improve your ability to put together a number or show and write for your clown? Then this intensive workshop is for you! Come and practice clowning through writing and creating an act or show.
We’ll help you turn your ideas into a show over 6 days.
The creative process also uses Non-Violent Communication (NVC) and Emotional Regulation.
Clown workshop : Our approach and methodology
It’s a holistic approach to the person, which is why I’ve included Non-Violent Communication and Emotional Regulation in these clown and improv workshops.
The workshops combine improvisation, clown writing, and individual and group work, so you can practise in a climate of trust and mutual support.
This year’s clowning workshop has 3 themes: authenticity, vulnerability and interactivity in clowning.
The clown’s intention is to share with others who they are, to connect with them in depth and experience them as a game.
It’s not always easy to show yourself, to dare to be authentic, to show your vulnerability, to dare to meet others.
The workshop enables clown artists to accept their limits and ‘flaws’ and play with them. Once they play with them, they are more than just their « negative » emotions, more than just their shyness or anger.
The aim is to touch the audience by accepting ourselves while we play. It’s a way of freeing ourselves and telling the audience that we too can be who we are… by playing.
.Through the clowning workshop, you get to know your own personality and develop your acting, clowning, communication and public speaking skills. Thanks to this sharing of experience and the use of Non-Violent Communication and Emotional Regulation, the audience is deeply touched and laughs out loud, because they recognise themselves so much in this transcendent humanity.
An interactive and fun teaching method with role-playing, the use of acting techniques, the Non-Violent Communication process and Emotional Regulation. For more information, please visit the dedicated pages: Benevolent Communication or NVC and Emotional Regulation.
Would you like to learn or improve your clowning and improv theatre skills? Our guarantees: fun, learning, fulfilment and creativity. Are you interested?
Clown workshop : Our approach and methodology
It’s a holistic approach to the person, which is why I’ve included Non-Violent Communication and Emotional Regulation in these clown and improv workshops.
The workshops combine improvisation, clown writing, and individual and group work, so you can practise in a climate of trust and mutual support.
This year’s clowning workshop has 3 themes: authenticity, vulnerability and interactivity in clowning.
The clown’s intention is to share with others who they are, to connect with them in depth and experience them as a game.
It’s not always easy to show yourself, to dare to be authentic, to show your vulnerability, to dare to meet others.
The workshop enables clown artists to accept their limits and ‘flaws’ and play with them. Once they play with them, they are more than just their « negative » emotions, more than just their shyness or anger.
The aim is to touch the audience by accepting ourselves while we play. It’s a way of freeing ourselves and telling the audience that we too can be who we are… by playing.
.Through the clowning workshop, you get to know your own personality and develop your acting, clowning, communication and public speaking skills. Thanks to this sharing of experience and the use of Non-Violent Communication and Emotional Regulation, the audience is deeply touched and laughs out loud, because they recognise themselves so much in this transcendent humanity.
An interactive and fun teaching method with role-playing, the use of acting techniques, the Non-Violent Communication process and Emotional Regulation. For more information, please visit the dedicated pages: Benevolent Communication or NVC and Emotional Regulation.
Would you like to learn or improve your clowning and improv theatre skills? Our guarantees: fun, learning, fulfilment and creativity. Are you interested?
From improv theatre to clowning: creative awakening and a deep connection with the audience
Improvisational theatre differs from theatre in that you don’t learn a text, but improvise from what is happening on stage, from the words given by the audience or the presenter at the start of the performance, or even from an outline. We can help by defining a place, a profession, a time. You will then interpret and get into the skin of the characters and even the objects.
In improv theatre, we develop the ability to listen to each other, creativity, spontaneity and letting go.
In clowning, we add an extra layer, i.e. the actor-improviser will share his internal experiences and emotions with the audience, with the aim of sharing what he is experiencing at the moment he is performing, in order to touch the audience in every way possible.
Clowning allows you to develop an awareness of your body and emotions, to stand back, to play with your limits and failures, to dare to show your vulnerability, to share what you’re going through and free yourself from it. The idea is to connect with the audience so that they can feel what the actor is going through, and even empathise with him or her. In this way, the audience will enjoy an immersive and total experience!
Clown workshop – The trainer and artistic coach: Istvan Van Heuverzwyn
A professional actor, Istvan has been teaching clowning for over 20 years, and conducting research into the contribution of clowning to artistic, professional and personal development. He began training in 1994 with the mime Marcel Marceau, then at the Jacques Lecoq school. In 2007, he perfected his skills at Le Samovar, then spent 6 months with Gabriel Chamez in Madrid, where he took part in a number of training courses, notably with Ami Hattab, from whom his clown’s name was born: Emir. For 12 years he devoted himself to personal development and worked as a trainer, before returning to clowning with Fred Robbe in 2020. He has staged a number of shows and clown acts, including El numéro, a clown-tango show, Un défilé de mode and, at the moment, L’incroyable aventure du roi Emir. He also worked as André Riot-Sarcey’s assistant on Les 7 clowns sur un fil and directed plays such as La Voie du thé, an initiation tale that has been performed in France and India. He is continuing his research into the rules of clowning and how clowning can support artistic and human development.
Clown workshop – The trainer and artistic coach: Istvan Van Heuverzwyn
A professional actor, Istvan has been teaching clowning for over 20 years, and conducting research into the contribution of clowning to artistic, professional and personal development. He began training in 1994 with the mime Marcel Marceau, then at the Jacques Lecoq school. In 2007, he perfected his skills at Le Samovar, then spent 6 months with Gabriel Chamez in Madrid, where he took part in a number of training courses, notably with Ami Hattab, from whom his clown’s name was born: Emir. For 12 years he devoted himself to personal development and worked as a trainer, before returning to clowning with Fred Robbe in 2020. He has staged a number of shows and clown acts, including El numéro, a clown-tango show, Un défilé de mode and, at the moment, L’incroyable aventure du roi Emir. He also worked as André Riot-Sarcey’s assistant on Les 7 clowns sur un fil and directed plays such as La Voie du thé, an initiation tale that has been performed in France and India. He is continuing his research into the rules of clowning and how clowning can support artistic and human development.