Category: Clown Training

Let’s give credit where credit is due. Copeau and Stanislavsky changed the world of theatre and acting. Everyone else follows in their giant footsteps even if the followers were reactionary. Lecoq in his 2002 (published in English after his death) book acknowledges that he was particularly influenced by Copeau by being in the troupe of…

“Shakespeare’s Clowns” is one of my new workshops launching in 2011. “Shakespeare’s Clowns” a weekend Quantum Clown workshop will assist any actor, clown, teacher or director to expand their understanding of the true and often hidden nature of Shakespeare’s extensive use of clowns. The format in this introductory weekend has six-parts:A) BodyB) StagecraftC) Voice, text,…

Male-Female the yin/yang of Theatre – key principle in The Seidenstein Method After many years in Theatre I saw a pattern in my devised projects was about men & women and their relationship. It is known that every person has both feminine and masculine qualities. This is yin/yang, ida/shushumna, chesed/gevurah, Krishna/Radha all codifications in various…

THE SEIDENSTEIN METHOD HISTORICAL CONTEXT We are post-modern practitioners. Culturally we have experienced Robert Wilson, Robert Lepage, Butoh, Julie Taymor, Pina Bausch, Cirque Du Soleil, Batsheva Dance, Peter Stein, The Globe Theatre, Dogma Films, Arienne Mounouchkine, Marie Chouinard, Michael Clark, Marcel Marceau, The Ballet Trocodero, Taduez Kantor, Tadashi Suzuki, Katsu Ohno. We have inherited the…

Tough love. How to address the Emperor’s New Clothes in the training of Actors, Clowns, Directors? Dario Fo attempted this in his book “Tricks of the Trade”. There he had a chapter “A Master With Whom I  Disagree”. Here I am assuming that you know the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes and even understand…