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Elizabeth will be teaching this summer in California (Bay Area), Kansas City, MO and Boulder, CO. For more information, please email: LaLaTheater@gmail.com
An Introduction to Red Nose Theater Clown
(yours, that is)
with Elizabeth Baron
Friday - Sunday, February 5th - 7th, 2010
at the Boulder Circus Center
The focus of this weekend intensive workshop is on giving birth to your clown. The clown is based on you – your body, your movement, and many elements of you as yet unnoticed and/or un-celebrated. The tools we use to help you discover and begin to play as your clown are drawn from myriad Mask and Movement-Theater techniques and traditions. By identifying and learning to glory in what is uniquely and inherently stupid about each of us, we begin to know and embody our clowns. Ironically, these qualities, which we often are unaware of and/or struggle to keep hidden from those around us, are in fact the gateways to hysterically funny, profound and sublimely simple work.
This approach to clown is rigorous in terms of physicality and specificity. Participants will be asked to listen to themselves and to the reactions of the ‘audience’ (the rest of the class) with the intense curiosity of a scientist. Through the workshop, participants will gain the skills and insight to create in the moment, based on this ‘listening.’ They will also laugh a lot, quite hard, and probably be moved to tears by the other clowns. This blend of rigorous technique and laughter combines to birth and nurture the first days of play in the lives of each participant's clown.
TO REGISTER, please contact Liz: LaLaTheater@gmail.com
Times: Friday 7pm - 9:30pm / Sat and Sunday 10:30am - 4:30pm
Cost: $185
- @ the Boulder Circus Center - 4747 N. 26th St, Boulder, CO 80301
- Ages: 16 and Older
- Class Size: Max. 10 / Min. 6
- Clothing: Clothes you can move in - not too baggy
- Color of clothes: Black preferred, or gray
ELIZABETH BARON has been creating and performing theater for 8/9th’s of her life and teaching for 10 years. She holds an MFA in Actor-Created Physical Theater/ Lecoq from Naropa University/ London International School of the Performing Arts (LISPA.) She acted professionally in NYC, performing in Off-Broadway and Regional Theater productions, before leaving the bright lights of the city for Boulder’s Rocky Peaks. She now works in collaboration with various theater companies and universities, locally and internationally. Elizabeth has been studying and performing Red Nose since 2003, and she is pedagogic assistant to GIOVANNI FUSETTI, world-renowned teacher of Mask and Clown. From September to December of 2009, she studied full time with Giovanni as part of: The Pedagogic Journey - Advanced training in theater pedagogy, with 9 other Lecoq trained artists from all over the world.
Elizabeth's most recent local projects include her highly acclaimed production of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, (LaLa Theater, June 2009, Dairy Center) and acting in Buskerfly Productions’ film: Buskers Bounty, which was just selected by the Levante International Film Festival! Most recent directing: Bobby Dart's Requiem for a Snowflake (LaLa Theater, BIFF 2009), Gemma Wilcox Productions’ 52 PickUp, (Best of Fest, BIFF 2008.) In 2010, she joins the faculty of Giovanni Fusetti's international theater school – Helikos: Scuola Internazionale Di Creazione Teatrale, in Florence, Italy.
She is known for her compassionate, humor-filled teaching style, and her deep love of and belief in the power of the Red Nose to unlock our hidden, delightful selves. Liz sees this work as an invaluable tool for the artist, connecting us to an endless source of creativity and poetry, and providing a treasure trove of insight and inspiration. All while being very stupid.
Elizabeth's most recent local projects include her highly acclaimed production of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, (LaLa Theater, June 2009, Dairy Center) and acting in Buskerfly Productions’ film: Buskers Bounty, which was just selected by the Levante International Film Festival! Most recent directing: Bobby Dart's Requiem for a Snowflake (LaLa Theater, BIFF 2009), Gemma Wilcox Productions’ 52 PickUp, (Best of Fest, BIFF 2008.) In 2010, she joins the faculty of Giovanni Fusetti's international theater school – Helikos: Scuola Internazionale Di Creazione Teatrale, in Florence, Italy.
She is known for her compassionate, humor-filled teaching style, and her deep love of and belief in the power of the Red Nose to unlock our hidden, delightful selves. Liz sees this work as an invaluable tool for the artist, connecting us to an endless source of creativity and poetry, and providing a treasure trove of insight and inspiration. All while being very stupid.
Liz is a generous and committed artist and a sensitive, hearted and insightful teacher. Her clown, Mowanna, taught me about vulnerability and the openness of the clown heart. I am delighted to recommend her as a clown teacher: she will joyfully cast the spell of the red nose onto you. (--- Giovanni Fusetti)
Sublime Stupidity Banner Credit: Alex Miles Younger Photography
Student Testimonials
I loved the Red Nose Workshop with Liz Baron! I have never taken a Red Nose workshop before nor have I had much theater experience but Liz's teaching style made the work extremely accessible to even the novice actor like myself. Liz has a remarkable ability of creating a safe space for the exploration of one's material to emerge while also encouraging you to dive deeper and fully embody the process. I highly recommend this workshop and can't wait to and can't wait to attend more with Liz in the future! (--- Brie Anderson-Feldman)
Liz is a powerful, insightful, compassionate and incredibly keen warrior. A true teacher. I love her. (--- Tory Capron)
Thank you again for leading us through this most amazing work. I've never had this much fun learning so intensely. You are gifted in recognizing and encouraging the playful aspects of each person and in getting the group to engage meaningfully with each other. I experienced insights into myself and my relationships that astonished and explained so much – much more than therapy or any other method of self-exploration! I can't thank you enough for bringing your wisdom and compassion to bear on the human vulnerability we all share. (--- Katie McElroy)
Having attended much longer red-nose workshops, I was curious to see how much Liz could do with a weekend. Wow! Liz guided us into some stirring and playful time in just a few hours. Everyone had the opportunity to explore their clown. What impresses me most about Liz's teaching is her keen clown-vision. What she sees in someone is often so penetrating and clear, and it always provokes learning. Liz also has the grace to allow herself to not get locked into a particular idea with someone's clown. Her insights seem at once precise and open, as perhaps parents can know their children and continue to know them more as they grow. Aside from her knowledge and passion for evoking clown, Liz practiced great time-management skills, good reading of and response to group-energy, and she provided a safe, well-guardianed learning/playing environment.(--- Jeffry Buechler)
Elizabeth's luminous energy, her compassionate and incisive guidance, and her delight in the process were hugely important to me. She taught me to feel and use my fears, instead of denying and blocking them. This work changed my experience of myself. (--- Margaret Pierce)
Her freshness, curiosity for people, dedication to the students and understanding of humanity make the perfect combination when I am looking for a Clown teacher. I have to say, I really love her laugh. (--- Mery Miguez)
Taking a Red Nose workshop with Elizabeth Baron was a great Odyssey... We explored our inner clowns individually and collectively. We rediscovered all the spectrum of human emotions through them. Liz's gift to help you shape your clown's birth through body movement is amazing. Yep, it was like being pregnant and having a great midwife at your side, someone without judgment and very supportive. (--- Cecile Kyriakos)
