CLOWN STATE
with Trygve Wakenshaw
An Introduction to Clowning
5-week course

Clown State

 

This 5-week playground is a chance to explore the “clown state”, the idiotic part of ourselves which we usually try to hide because we are functional human beings. The clown state spills out impulsively when we try hard and fail. 

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Over these five weeks we will leap around and play impossible games, slowly touching little moments of clown and becoming more comfortable with our own idiotic self. 

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Learn from the very best! Trygve is a world acclaimed performer working at the very highest levels in his craft. This is a rare opportunity to train with one of the very best! 

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Suitable for those with no experience as well as improvisers, actors and comedians looking to incorporate clown-work into their own performances.

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About Trygve Wakenshaw:

The New Zealand born Trygve (pronounced Trig-vee ) is a physical comedy performer who studied at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, the prestigious Paris clown school with alumni including Sasha Baron-Cohen and Emma Thompson. Wakenshaw's unique style combines mime, physical theater and cheeky idiocy - he is mad, risqué and uniquely eccentric. The critically acclaimed, award-winning clown presents his beautifully strange stream-of-consciousness idiocy in three different shows. His hilarious and fun hit physical comedies SQUIDBOY, KRAKEN,  and NAUTILUS  have been known to sell out at festivals around the world. He is also touring is his award winning DIFFERENT PARTY with best friend and collaborator Barnie Duncan.

Trygve is currently touring his latest show SILLY LITTLE THINGS, as well as NAUTILUS, and his kids show with Toboso Theatre MONSTERRR.

learn more about Trygve and his shows here

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