Day 3 of Clowns at Gaulier (stuck on Zoom due to getting Covid) Well, today, the saga of Covid continues, as one of my classmates (also my housemate) tested positive. Which is (to vastly understate it) less than ideal. I know, I know. Covid is famously a bastard. It is excessively transmissive and can move
Day 2 of Clown at Gauiler. Today was my second day locked in my room with Covid and watching the Gauiler class on Zoom. And today, I decided I was going to gather as much as possible from the classes from my restricted vantage point behind a computer screen… Part of that meant paying much
Day 1 of Clowns at Gaulier Well, this week hasn’t started off great. In fact, it’s started off badly. I went into the school in the morning, thinking that I had a mild cold following too much end-of-course partying on Friday… To discover to my horror that I tested positive for Covid (we do tests
Reflection after Bouffons course at Gaulier. If you were to ask me what I’ve learned so far over the last 4 weeks, I’d list a bunch of insights and ideas around on-stage performance skills. But an emotional theme to my experience? My top candidate is: Rejection. Why rejection? Of all the mental and emotional ups
End of Bouffons at Gaulier It’s the end of the second 2-week course. Just one more course to go. For many people, Bouffons has been very confusing. So many people this week have said, “I still don’t really get what ‘Bouffons’ is.” Myself, I feel like I have a good idea of it. Not a
Day 9 of Bouffons at Gaulier. One thing I’ve learned about myself in these past couple of weeks is that I am not comfortable with uncertainty. I’d go further than that. I’d say I function extremely badly with uncertainty. The more uncertain things are, the worse I function. When I know what’s going on, I
Day 7 of Bouffons at Gaulier I’ve gone a bit off the rails with my summaries of the learning this past week. I’m not going to lie– I mean, why would I lie? I never do, I’m compulsively honest… something that is actually an issue here at Gaulier where lying is “part of the game”
End of week 1 Bouffon at Gaulier. This week has gone extremely quickly. By which I mean, I’ve not written up my experiences at the end of each day. A lot has happened since my past post a few days ago. I’ll write a proper summary of the week over the weekend, but the overriding
Day 2 of Bouffons at Gaulier. One thing Philippe Gaulier is famous for is “making people cry.” This is something I’d heard a few times before coming here. But what does it actually mean when someone cries (or otherwise responds with strong emotion, like anger) as a response to one of his insults? Today, we
End of day one of Bouffons at Gaulier I got a bit of a break today. Well, I say break. I took some chances today and was rewarded by some concerted stage time – a little personal workshop for a few minutes. Which, I felt, was nice of Philippe. For the first time, I felt
