New Fall Workshop!

Clowning as an inner journey in Brooklyn

A Nose Of Her Own

Claiming Our Voices Presents:
A Nose Of Her Own
A Clown Workshop for Women
With Laura Geilen and Benedicta Bertau of Walking the dog Theater
www.wtdtheater.org 518-929-5392 to register
Jan 30+31, 2010 Sat 10-5 Sun 1-5 Friend’s Meeting House Great Barrington, MA $150.0

The clown’s nose is the small mask that gives us BIG permission. Whether you’re a super woman, a secretary, a mother, a daughter, a goddess, a feminist, a CEO, a wife, an artist, a muse, a cheerleader, straight, or gay, or all (or none) of the above, come discover your own personal guide and resource for new found sanity: your inner clown! Through learning to deepen presence and by connecting to our playful spirit we can develop and sustain the heart to be who we truly are - to trust life, each other and ourselves.

About the facilitators:

Laura Geilen teaches dance, Spacial Dynamics®, circus arts, therapeutic movement, acro-yoga and clowning to kids, adults, and special needs groups in schools and privately. Laura is a member of Walking the dog Theater's OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble, and is a facilitator with Nose to Nose of the UK www.nosetonose.info

Benedicta Bertau is a director, actor, clown and the Producing Artistic Director/Outreach Director for Walking the dog Theater. She trained in Physical Theater in Chile, the Chekhov Acting Method in Berlin, Germany, and Clowning in the Netherlands with Marjolein Baars of tiny hero productions.



“… a wonderful opportunity. The facilitators create a safe, supportive, authentic, creative, engaging, present, adventuresome, fun space in which to share, grow and learn...one really experiences oneself very clearly. I liked the variety of forces at work...the process for developing the group sense, exploring individually and together. I really learned a lot and it will be a touchstone for me as I remember it and the experience and feeling of being on stage and being viewed... and enjoying it!” -Participant, A Nose Of Her Own, 2009

Clowning As An Inner Journey: A Series of Three Weekend Workshops with Laura Geilen and Benedicta Bertau
The clown’s nose is the mask that unmasks. Through the clown we can rediscover inner qualities of openness, spontaneity and play. The clown allows our imagination to soar, while keeping our feet firmly on the ground. Working with warm-ups, games and on the empty stage, we will find our inner clowns through improvisation, play, staying present and welcoming everything that emerges.
It’s not about routines, tricks or gags. No acting or clowning experience is needed. We invite you on a safe personal journey that lets our challenges become opportunities, our mistakes celebrations, and our confusions states of enlightenment. In clowning we delight in life's paradoxes and remember our natural capacity to be playful and free. We breathe, stop resisting, let go and live more happily (even if haplessly), ever after.
Through connecting to our playful spirit we can develop and sustain, in each other and in ourselves, the heart to be who we truly are.
Join us for one or all three. Saturdays 10-5, Sundays 10-1. Oct 10/11, Oct 31/Nov 1, Nov 21/22. Cost is a sliding scale with asking rates at $150 for one, $250 for two and $350 for three. For more information or to register go to www.wtdtheater.org