2022
EVENT
CALENDAR

VARIATIONS ON BOUFFONS

Friday, AUGUST 19th at 7:30 pm
Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St, Boulder, CO 80301

Welcome to the last act of a three-week intensive training program led by Giovanni Fusetti. 
The participants have explored the world of Bouffons and their grotesque language.
A troupe of 14 performers will present a series of acts, in which bouffons will mock the world in which we live, with their ruthless and ferocious instinct to expose the collective games that humans like to play.
The word Bouffon has its roots in a latin verb: buffare, to puff, to fill the cheeks with air. It seems to be a very old practice of humans. To deform oneself, to swell in order to mimic our fellow humans, and to provoke laughter.  In fact, bouffons are direct descendants of the satyrs of ancient greek Satyric Drama.
The actual word Bouffons comes from the French bouffon, and it entered the English theatrical language through the work of Jacques Lecoq.The essence of Bouffon is to mock: it’s a specific role, existing in all human societies. The Bouffons represent elements of the society in an amplified, distorted, exaggerated way, therefore provoking laughter and outrage. Their essence is in being an amplified mirror of the society, revealing its contradictions, its ambiguity, its hidden agendas and, finally, its underlying folly.

The duration of the evening will be approximately one and a half hours, with a brief intermission. 

Entrance is free and a donation at the door will be welcome.
The performance will contain adult language, explicit sexual material, and provocative subject matter, so it is not suitable for a young audience.
Please reserve your place by email, writing to giovanni.fusetti@helikos.com

COVID SAFETY
We kindly require the audience to wear a face-mask during the evening. The whole cast has been tested daily during the training, will test on the morning of the performance and will perform without wearing a face-mask. 

See you on Friday !
Giovanni Fusetti

PADOVA, ITALY

Tuesday June 7th / Martedi 7 Giugno
Wednesday June 8th / Mercoledi 9 Giugno
Thursday June 9th / Giovedi 9 Giugno

RED NOSES

A Clown Variety Show

Varietà Comico per Clowns

La presentazione finale degli allievi del Corso Internazionale sul Clown Teatrale
diretto da Giovanni Fusetti

The Final Presentation of THE RED NOSE INTENSIVE
led by Giovanni Fusetti

con

Clara Setti (Italia)
Ellen Withshire (Australia)
Iika Hartikainen (Finland)
Lena Natus (Germany)
Lia Tamborra (USA)
Lily Fish (Australia)
Raphael Bantle (Germany)
Rosa Maria Autio (Finland)
Sandra Lange (Estonia)
Sean Gittins (UK)
Steve Day (Canada)
Tuba Keles (Turkey – Denmark)

Questa serata è l’ultima tappa del Laboratorio Internazionale sul CLOWN TEATRALE diretto a Padova da Giovanni Fusetti. Gli allievi hanno incontrato la più piccola maschera del teatro, il NASO ROSSO, esplorando il mondo della propria comicità individuale. Prima di diventare un personaggio teatrale, il clown è uno stato di presenza e vitalità scenica, dove l’attore esplora la sua più unica e personalissima stupidità e la trasforma in comicità.
Una troupe internazionale di 12 allieve e allievi presenterà uno spettacolo di varietà costituito da una serie di numeri, routines e atti comici creati durante il corso. Celebreranno la propria ingenuità e poetica stupidità, in una serata di virtuosismi ridicoli, sublimi fiaschi con canzoni, musica e catastrofi varie. 

Non è uno spettacolo per bambini, ma la serata è adatta a qualsiasi pubblico.

This performance is the last act of a four week intensive training program on THEATRE CLOWN led in Padova by Giovanni Fusetti. The participants have encountered the smallest mask in theater , THE RED NOSE, exploring 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, an international group of 12 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.

This is not a children show but it is suitable for all ages.

Where/Dove: HELIKOS STUDIO, Via Monte Solarolo 16, 35141 PADOVA – ITALY
When/Orario: 7:30 PM / 19:30
Admission: free admissions, donations are welcome. Ingresso Libero, una donazione è benvenuta.
For information and reservations / Per informazioni e prenotazioni:

scuola@helikos.com

Intelligence is limited, stupidity is infinite.

L’intelligenza è limitata, la stupidià è infinita.

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PAST EVENTS

2021

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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

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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.

THE PANDEMIC TIME

Lockdown at the Helikos Studio, December 2020

And then the pandemic came
the world took a big breath
and could not exhale any more

And all classes went silent
all theatres were empty
all workshops were epitaphs

And the streets were full of fear
and the fear was full of masks
but not the ones we like to play

We hung our smiles on Zoom
waiting for the virus to go
and the bodies to return

This calendar is still empty
except for some survival gatherings
in our fluorescent boxes

Behind the bars of a digital prison
we look for a laughter a gesture a face
that will dim our craving for play

and remind us how much we love
the arts that we are missing
and the people we are longing for

When you will find this page
full of live events again
please drink a glass of joy to us all

PREVIOUS EVENTS
2020 and before