Want to Clown Around? New Workshop at Smålands

A smile is a weapon of mass construction

Clown Workshop on Friday, October 8th, 5pm till 8pm

Three hours of fun, active participation and clownish experience. Everybody is welcome, no requirements, everybody is born a clown.

What can you expect?

Through selected games, improvisational exercises and sensitivity instructions, we will find the path to our inner clown. The first unit is very practical, full of laughs, fun, emotions and entertainment. It's a slow introduction to the art and philosophy of a clown with all its taboos and limitations. You might find something what you already forgot or thought you never had. It's a opportunity to meet people in a new way with different eyes and without all common measures and judgments. This kind of art can open new paths to everybody who is open to follow it.


What is a clown?
The common image of the circus clown, who is juggling, acting silly and falling on his nose every meter is a myth, which is in my eyes only practiced by people who missed the breaking free of the commercial cliché clown into a much broader spectrum. Being a clown is mostly misunderstood and gets mixed up with being “stupid” or “foolish”. Being a clown is much more. Its a lifestyle, a philosophy, a long practised art. Juggling and doing magic tricks does not make you a clown. It's only your attitude and the relation you have to your own body and mind.

The essence of clown, in the pure sense, is a combination of innocence and maturity, a free mind and wisdom.

A clown is a mirror of society, but is not accepting their taboos and rules.

A clown is
…... is never pretending to be somebody.

…...always acting with the best intentions and always newly surprised by the moment.

…..... is not funny because they're trying to be funny, rather because they're being very serious about something or her/himself.

…...is never parodying something or somebody, he/she always really wants to be like the person he/she admires.

…..to become a clown you have to go back to the time to very early childhood before “education” started.

…..we are in the need of laughing, but at most laughing about ourselves. That’s what the clown stands for.

…......aware that there is always enough space and time for failing and falling; a clown knows the art of failure.

…...also aware that when making people laugh, you make people open to receive. So people might be laughing only watching the clown, but afterwords realizing the real message they got from it. And this can be about everything.

…....an innocent rebel, opposed to the rules and taboos of the society

Bring with you: comfortable clothes, any mood, any face and a little pinch of interest.
If you want sign up for the workshop, please write an email or call the instructor:
(for cancellation please contact me as well)

e-mail: elisabethzenz@hotmail.com
mobile: 0764089255