We invite you to five-day clowning masterclasses for professional and emerging performing artists, regardless of their field. If you are involved in circus, performance or acting and want to develop your stage practice, these workshops are for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n How can we create a character that is truly ours? How can you capture the audience’s attention, build suspense and surprise them? Clown training is not only about learning to make people laugh, but also about using it as a tool to develop stage presence, discover one’s own language and explore new ways of expression.<\/p>\n During the workshop, through improvisation, movement and working with emotions, we will explore the clown as a creator who can laugh at themselves, take risks and draw inspiration from their own world.<\/p>\n We won’t be creating characters from scratch. We will look within ourselves for that part of us that wants to play, experiment and create here and now. We will examine how our stories, weaknesses, insecurities and imperfections can become a source of humour and stage truth.<\/p>\n We will create a space for free experimentation, making mistakes and thinking outside the box. We will dance, sing, exaggerate, dramatise and turn small things into big ones as we seek inspiration to create characters and performances.<\/p>\n \u2018Creative Fool\u2019 is an invitation to explore, not to act. To develop stage courage, authenticity and creative freedom \u2013 regardless of whether the starting point is circus technique, movement, words or a personal story.<\/p>\n Cl\u00e9mence Caillouel<\/strong> \u2013 a performer, clown, director and theatre educator who works between Barcelona, Berlin and Normandy on a daily basis. In her work, she combines experimental theatre, performance and dark clowning. Her work is personal and sensitive, but it can also be extreme and grotesque \u2013 often humorous, tragic and decidedly unconventional. In 2016, she founded La Volada Production, under which she creates and produces her theatre and clown performances, including \u2018Paulina\u2019 (2016), \u2018Le Chevreuil et Dalida\u2019 (2021) and \u2018The Requiem of Sophie Withman\u2019 (2023). She also appears in projects by other artists and groups, including Tucan Riot (\u2018No Way Out\u2019), OfW (\u2018\u2207\u2013 Tour\u2019), CircOliva (\u2018Vermut Acrob\u00e0tic\u2019) and Compa\u00f1\u00eda Laboratorio Teatro (\u2018Shakespeare y compa\u00f1\u00eda\u2019, \u2018Allende\u2019).<\/p>\n The artist is known to Polish audiences from this year’s edition of the Carnaval Sztukmistrz\u00f3w, during which she presented the performance \u2018The Requiem of Sophie Withman\u2019.<\/p>\n When: Where:<\/strong> Workshops of Culture in Lublin, Grodzka 5a, auditorium, 2nd floorAbout the instructor<\/h2>\n
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<\/strong>by 15 November 2026 | applications<\/strong>
by 20 November 2026 | selection results<\/strong>
8-12 December 2026 | five-day workshops<\/strong> | 10:00-16:00 (with a lunch break)<\/p>\n
For:<\/strong> professional and emerging performing artists, regardless of their field
Registration: via the online form<\/a><\/strong>
Free of charge<\/strong>, places are limited<\/p>\nAccessibility<\/h2>\n
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