PAST EVENTS
2021
VENERDI 3 DICEMBRE
Ore 20:30, Studio HELIKOS, Via Monte Solarolo 16, Padova.
SCENA APERTA SULLA CREAZIONE TEATRALE
Le residenze di creazione a Helikos sono una forma pedagogica/artistica che in cui artisti teatrali si ritrovano per sviluppare i propri pezzi, alternando prove autonome con sessioni di supervisione e regia con Giovanni Fusetti. Dopo cinque giorni di prove gli artisti vi invitano alla presentazione dei loro pezzi, per poterli provare con un pubblico reale, ricevere le vostre osservazioni e critiche e poter continuare a svilupparli.
PROGRAMMA
BE MY GUEST !
Commedia scritta, diretta e interpretata da MONIA BALDINI
con: la Presentatrice, l’Attrice tragica, L’artista, Venere, la Bestia e Me stessa
Una commedia-rituale che sviscera, davanti e con il pubblico, i dubbi e le riflessioni sul processo creativo e con esso le scelte poetiche, gli aspetti autobiografici, il metateatro, la condizione della donna, la povertà dell’attore, la psicoanalisi, il corpo e il ruolo dell’artista nella società.
Ogni ruolo che dentro di me lotta per la costruzione del proprio spettacolo e cerca il favore e l’aiuto del pubblico per realizzare i propri desideri.
Sei spettacoli in uno, nella ricerca dell’uno che riunisca il tutto.
FEMINA
di e con RAMONA KARCHER
Venite a conoscere Madame Latour du Nord. Ha lasciate la sua traccia nella storia Europea. Tutte le donne, ordinarie o eroiche, straordinarie o quotidiane, sono unite in lei. Le fa vivere con la loro forza e le loro battaglie, in un viaggio poetico che ripercorre un secolo di evoluzione dei ruoli della donna nella società.
Durata approssimativa della serata: 80 min, divisi in due atti, a cui seguirà una sessione di feedback del pubblico agli artisti. Entrambi i pezzi sono in lingua inglese.
Entrata Libera I posti sono limitati ed è necessaria la prenotazione.
Per informazioni e prenotazioni : GIOVANNI FUSETTI
2021
Online Event
FOOLS DINNERS IN LOCKDOWN
Seven evening conversations with Giovanni Fusetti
hosted by Kimberley Twiner
FOOLS DINNERS IN LOCKDOWN
Session 1, Monday February 15th: ON CLOWN
Session 2, Wednesday February 17th: ON BOUFFONS
Session 3, Sunday August 8th: THE CHORUS
Session 4, Sunday September 12th: THE ROLE OF THE FOOL IN DARK TIMES
Session 5, Sunday September 19th: THE SPIRIT OF COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE
Session 6, Monday October 11th: WHY COMEDY ?
Session 7, Monday October 18th, 2021: THE DEVISING PROCESS
Sudden changes bring sudden opportunities. In response to the very upsetting timing of this last lockdown in Melbourne, I am happy to invite you to these evening dinners, cooked with questions and answers and more questions. The conversation will be oriented by the questions sent by you before we start. Any question related to these magnificent fields of theatre practice will be welcome. It will be nice to gather, brew some good thoughts and cultivate desire. And trick back the corona. See you at the zoo-m.
How to register: Send an email to giovanni.fusetti@helikos.com
If you have a question, please send it. Only one, thanks. I don’t guarantee I will touch them all, but they will feed my cooking.
Places are limited to 30 participants. They will be given in order of reception. Please specify if you wish to attend both sessions or just one. In which case please specify which one.
Where: on ZOOM. The link will be sent to you upon reception of your registration email
When: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Melbourne Time
Open to: Anyone who have participated to any of the workshops taught by Giovanni in Melbourne between 2017 and 2020.
Fee: Free entry, BYO drinks.
2020
Giovanni Fusetti è COVIVIDO: un incrocio tra un Buffone, uno Zanni e …un Virus. In questi tempi folli di triage, distanziamento sociale e sanificazione compulsiva, Covivido non vi lascerà scampo nel rispettare le mirabolanti misure anti-contagio. Invasivo, insinuante, tachente e saltellante.
Giovanni Fusetti is COVIVIDO: a crossbreed between a Bouffon, a Zanni and…a Virus. In these crazy times of tracing, social distancing and compulsive sanification, Covivido will ruthlessly enforce the wondrous anti-infection regulations. Intrusive, pervasive, sticky and outrageously hopping.
Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, February 9th, 2020
FROM THE NEUTRAL MASK TO THE RED NOSE
A lecture-demonstration
with
Giovanni Fusetti
Where: VCA, 30 Dodds St, Southbank VIC 3006
When: 3:00pm for a 3:30pm start
Duration: two hours, including Q&A
Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/BHUCR
Admission: All are welcome, a donation bucket will be present on the day, with all donations going to fund Giovanni Fusetti’s Helikos School in Italy.
This lecture unfolds the journey from the Neutral Mask to the Red Nose, two referential masks in the world of movement theater. The exploration of the “Neutral State” is the foundation for all character work and eventually for the discovery of the idiosyncratic and personal world of the Clown.
The Neutral Mask doesn’t have any dramatic expression, and allows the actor to explore a state of fundamental presence, in the here and now of the theatrical space. The Neutral Mask has no past and no future, no impressed drama and no plans: it allows the actor to transform the body into “a white page, ready to be written on in the future dramas-“ Jacques Lecoq. Through the Neutral Mask the actor discovers a state of physical presence, calm and availability to space.
In the ” impossible” attempt to reach a neutral body, the actor becomes more aware of their own individual unique ways of being non-neutral. This leads to the discovery of the Clown through the analysis of the physical and emotional world of each actor, as revealed by her or his body in space, with the help of the Neutral Mask. The use of the smallest mask in the world, the Red Nose and the amplification and articulation of personal themes allow the actor to enter the Clown State, playing with their own unique personal stupidity. After developing the actor’s awareness of the duality between the State of Neutrality and the Clown State, the actor can explore some of the infinite possibilities of creating comic characters, based on variations from neutrality. Each character development is based in an unbalance from neutrality.
During this lecture Giovanni Fusetti will explore the key steps in the pedagogic work with the Neutral Mask and the Red Nose, as well as the story and the lineage of this practice.
Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, January 27th, 2020
BOUFFON AND THE ECSTASY OF MOCKING
A playful lecture
with
Giovanni Fusetti
Where: Body Voice Centre, 50 Wolverhampton St, Footscray VIC 3011
When: 4:00pm for a 4:30pm start
Duration: two hours, including Q&A
Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/BHUCR
Admission: All are welcome, a donation bucket will be present on the day, with all donations going to fund Giovanni Fusetti’s Helikos School in Italy.
2019
London, Saturday OCTOBER 19th 2019
THEATRE FOR THE REBELLION
A day of guided devising and brainstorming for rebellious theatre artists
by Embodied Poetic guides Amy Russell & Giovanni Fusetti
Where: LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, Saw Swee Hock Student Center, 6th Floor, Studio 1, Sheffield Str, London W2CA 2AP
FREE: all donations to benefit EXTINCTION REBELLION
to register: info@embodiedpoetics.org
Our approach will be one of a lecture demo, following by group exercises to incite participants’ imaginations as to how to theatricalize their environmental actions. The purpose is to encourage environmental activists to think and act artistically, poetically and aesthetically.
By theatricalize we mean the using embodied action for some form of identified “audience.”
We will be referencing different theatrical genres, tragedy, comedy, melodrama, to see how each one of them can serve such theatricality.
The exercises will be both group and individual, and the feedback will be collective and involve brainstorming.
Brattleboro, VT, USA – Sunday, SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
THE WAY OF THE FOOL
An Evening of Stories and Conversation
about the Healing Power and Poetry of Clowns
with
Giovanni Fusetti, Nettie Lane, Clown special guests and You!
Where : Broad Brook Community Center (Guilford Grange)3940 Guilford Center Rd, Guilford, VT 05301
When :7:30 – 9:30 PM
Free Attendance
You are warmly invited to an evening of stories and conversation about the healing power and poetry of clowns. The term ‘clown’ has been thrown around in all sorts of situations – from describing politicians to horror movie characters. But what is the real essence of the Clown? And how can the world’s smallest mask – the red nose – be a force of healing and poetry in our lives and the world?
Join special guest Giovanni Fusetti (Founder of Helikos International School of Theater Creation) Guilford resident and ‘clown mid-wife’ Nettie Lane, and a cadre of clowns in this joyful exploration. This evening is part of The Tao of Clown Workshop led by Giovanni Fusetti.
The public is warmly welcomed and encouraged to attend!
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Padova, Italy, Sunday, March 9th, 2019
INAUGURATION
of the new
HELIKOS STUDIO
And welcoming of the participants of the PEDAGOGIC TRAINING
Where: Via Monte Solarolo 16, 35141 PADOVA
When: 7 PM
Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, January 19, 2019
BOUFFON INTENSIVE PUBLIC SHOWING
The final performance of a two-week intensive training on Bouffons
led by Giovanni Fusetti
Where: Snuff Puppets Drill Hall, 395 Barkly St, Footscray, 3011
When:7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Booking: Tickets are free, but bookings are essential, there will be a donation bucket passed around at the end of the event so please bring a little cash if you think you’ll feel like donating. Suggested donation $10.00 to $10,000 – but just a smile is fine too.
BOOK HERE: You MUST reserve your seat!
Welcome to the final performance of a two-week intensive training on Bouffons led by Giovanni Fusetti in Melbourne. The participants have explored the world of Satire, Bouffons and the Grotesque. A band of 18 performers will present a series of acts, devised through improvisation during the training. In each act, Bouffons will mock themes from the world in which we live, with their ruthless and ferocious instinct to reveal the collective games that humans like to play.
The duration of the evening will be approximately one and a half hours, with a brief intermission. The performance will be followed by a Q&A session with Giovanni Fusetti and the cast.
The performance will contain adult language, explicit sexual material, and provocative subject matter, so it is not suitable for a young audience.
Meet your Bouffons: Victoria Bonte, Zya Kane, Nick O’Regan, Maria Silva, Pauline Sherlock, Rosa Campagnero, Xan Griffith, Lucy Kingsley, Jessie Ngaio, Ben Volchok, Paris Balla, Ezel Doruk, Lina Limosani, Hallie Goodman, Wes Gardner, Emma Smith, Ell Sachs and Kimberley Twiner.
Any questions? Kimberley Twiner 0468664466
Bouffons have been watching the news coming from planet Earth lately. Their eyes are shimmering with jubilation and they have decided to come for a ride Downunder. They are coming to play the hell out of us all. Watch out !
Welcome to a lecture-presentation with the Italian theatre pedagogue and fool Giovanni Fusetti. In a playful exploration of this wild field, Giovanni will guide the audience through the history and origins of this dramatic territory, from its western origins in Greek theatre to its contemporary variations, and he will explore the unique folly and the profound mythological and political power of Bouffons. The lecture will address questions like these:
Where do Bouffons come from?
Who are they?
What is their relationship with Clown and Comic Theater?
What is their poetic potential?
What is the relationship between Tragedy and Satire?
What is the political power of this genre?
The event is recommended for an adult audience.
MELBOURNE, Australia
Tuesday November 20th, Wednesday November 21st, Thursday November 22nd
RED NOSES
A Clown Variety Show
the Final Presentation of THE RED NOSE INTENSIVE led by Giovanni Fusetti
This performance is the last act of a four week intensive training program with Giovanni Fusetti. The participants have explored the world of physical comedy through the development of their individual clown: a character whose comedy is a poetic transposition of the unique stupidity of each actor. During this performance a troupe of 13 theatre clowns will present a variety show of comic acts, performing their naiveté, their stupidity and their skills, in an evening of ridiculous virtuosities, sublime fiascos (bides), singing, dancing, music and various other catastrophes.
Remember: Intelligence is limited, stupidity is infinite.
This is not a children show but it is suitable for all ages.
Where: ROSINA Auditorium, ABBOTSFORD CONVENT, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford, VIC
When: 7:00 PM
Admission: suggested donation $10 to $10.000, but just a smile is fine too.
For information and reservations: Kimberley, ktwiner@gmail.com
Boulder, Colorado, Sunday, August 12th, 2018
CLOWN’S LIFE
An evening of poetry, writings and other stories from the Clown World.
When & Where: The class showing will start at 8:00, at the Boulder Circus Center: 4747 26th St, Boulder, CO 80301
The duration of the showing will be approximately two hours, including an intermission.
Admission: We suggest a $5 donation, but any bigger or smaller amount will be gratefully accepted.
Places are limited, please email for reservations. Thanks.
Giovanni Fusetti 720 938 0752
Welcome to the open showing of selected materials from the Clown’s Life Training.
An international group of 9 performers who have studied Red Nose with Giovanni in previous trainings, has come to Boulder for this advanced workshop, in order to train further with their clown, and play and write together.
In Clown’s Life we have explored, in depth and naivety of the Red Nose, some fundamental themes of life: emotions, love, relationships, illness, death, blind dates, sex, friendship, politics, therapy and much more.
The result is an evening of short pieces that will bring you into the world as seen by the Clown: powerful, present, naive, funny, moving and paradoxically wonderful.
Come and be delighted, surprised, moved… maybe provoked or outraged, … and we’ll be very happy to see you there.
p.s. If you’re wondering if you can bring kids – please review the list of themes above (love, relationships, death, sexuality, etc.). The show will contain material addressing these themes, with some adult poetic language.
Boulder, CO, USA
Monday July 16th, Tuesday July 17th, Wednesday July 18th
RED NOSES 2018
a Clown Variety Show
The Final Presentation of the 13th Boulder International Training on Theater Clown
led by Giovanni Fusetti
This performance is the last act of a three and a half week intensive training program with Giovanni Fusetti. The participants have explored the world of physical comedy through the development of their individual clown: a character whose comedy is a direct transposition of the unique stupidity of each actor. During this performance a troupe of 9 theatre clowns will present a variety show of comic acts, performing their naiveté, their stupidity and their skills, in an evening of ridiculous virtuosities, sublime fiascos (bides), singing, music and various other catastrophes.
Remember: Intelligence is limited, stupidity is infinite.
Where: THE NOMAD PLAYHOUSE, 1410 Quince Ave. North Boulder, Co
Admission: suggested donation $7 to $700, but just a smile is fine too.
For information and reservations: 720 9380752
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