Clowns

April has been busy and creatively very satisfying. At the start of the month I directed a piece for the Wave If You’re Really There event at St Leonards Church in Shoreditch organised by Mercy and the Wave Machines. I have done five of these events so far and working with Mercy is a wonderful experience – what lovely people and what amazing events. Each event has a theme and this event was Baptism. I explored the story of John the Baptist looking particularly at different versions of Salome. I also sent information to the actors about rituals with water. It was the rituals that were the most interesting for me – hopefully I will get some pictures up here soon to show what we created.

After working at this event I went straight to Coventry to do five days of Clown and Dark Clown training. The very nature of training in performance is that you have your ups and downs, but what an incredible experience. The Clown process is fascinating and incredibly sophistcated. I can’t get enough of it – I have just finished a weekend of Clown and Mask! Good job as I have three weekends of training in it in June.

Very excited about my solo practice at the moment. I have just been accepted to perform at Emergency Poolside where I will perform the first version of Scream Away my new piece. Really glad that I have taken the time out to make sure that my work is honest as I feel like I can take it in really interesting directions.

Probably need to write more on this, this week…

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