The Melbourne Gestalt Centre
in collaboration with
Melbourne Physical Theatre School
presents

THE TAO OF CLOWN

A poetic Journey of Awareness through Laughter

Presenter:  GIOVANNI FUSETTI Pedagogical Director of HELIKOS International School of Theatre Creation, Padova, Italy

Date: Sunday 4 February; 10am to 4pm, with one hour lunch break between 1 and 2.

Location: Elie, Gestalt centre Training Campus, 27 Royal Parade, Parkville 

Workshop Description
Welcome to a unique adventure, in which comic poetry meets healing, movement-based theater dances with emotional awareness and your personal clown will reveal your own crazy wisdom.
The Clown exists in a state of playing in which the player has access to the key question: what is so funny about myself? And the red nose as mask has the sublime power of transforming any core emotion into comic presence.
The Clown is a very personal comic state. It exists in the fullness of the present moment: in this state of being without doing, the person touches the richness of the “here and now”. It emerges from the unique somatic nature of each person,
In this letting go of all intentions, the player touches the magical “poetry of the ridiculous”: to play with one’s uniqueness, to laugh at oneself, to laugh with oneself, transforming fragility, imperfections, wounds and contradictions into comic poetry and personal power.

Participants: minimum 8 maximum 16

Contribution:

$80.00 un-waged
$110.00 concession
$140.00 full

Scholarships: A limited amount of diversity scholarships are available to people who self identify as being under represented in the arts or therapeutic community. Please contact Kimberley on ktwiner@gmail.com about this option.

Giovanni Fusetti is an Italian multi-disciplinary fool. Natural Scientist, Theatre Artist, Pedagogue, Gestalt Therapist, he works internationally as a teacher and process facilitator, exploring theatre as a tool for artistic training, education, healing, personal awareness and political awakening. He trained in Gestalt at the Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt and in Physical Theatre at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, where he has been pedagogic assistant and Improvisation teacher. Giovanni is the founder of HELIKOS International School of Theatre Creation based in Padova, Italy. https://giovannifusetti.com/