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
A reflection on the whole course of Le Jeu at Gaulier. Today, I’m heading into week 3 here at Gaulier. And that means we’re moving onto a second of the 2-week courses: Bouffons So before my brain gets blasted with a new firehose of teaching, it makes sense to reflect a little on what I’ve
A reflection after Week 2 of Le Jeu at Gaulier As I’m taking it easy following my ridiculous fall yesterday (see previous post… no, you can go and find the link to the post for yourself, I’m not your mother), I’ve been thinking about my general “social ineptness” and a concept we’ve been learning here…
Last day of Le Jeu at Gaulier. I did something a bit stupid today. Isn’t stupid a requirement for clowns? Fine. Let’s say “ill advised” then. As a result, I spent the end of one the morning lying on my back on the floor. And the afternoon class sitting at the back of the room
Day 2 of Week 2 of Le Jeu at Gaulier A comment from a fellow classmate made me wonder today: How does feeling “pleasure” on stage (a core part, if not THE core part of Gaulier’s teaching) go along with being – for want of a better word – authentic… Or as I usually think
Day 6 (Day 1 of week 2) of Le Jeu at Gaulier. I started today thinking about The Leap. The Leap is something I talk about sometimes. It’s that moment when you say “fuck it” and you just go for it… whatever it is that you are going to go for. (You know, part of
It’s my day off – the Sunday at the end of week 1 of Le Jeu at Gaulier. My intention was to write a summary of the week… but what does that mean? Should I write a beat by beat list of all the exercises we did throughout the week? That seems boring. Useful for
