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In autumn 2022, I worked with the MA Performance Practices students at DMU to create short a piece of devised theatre, which I directed and they performed. The project culminated in a public performance of The Capitalist Self Care Club, performed in a studio space at DMU’s PACE building in December 2022.
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Alongside this research project, financial necessity has meant that I have continued my professional theatre practice as a director and movement director. There have been some useful threads of thought to gather from bringing more disciplined noticing into my professional practice. I had planned to reflect on some of this work within my thesis, but in the end chose not to- a choice led partly by a desire to keep my focus on the processual act of teaching, but also because I ran out of time and words!
I wrote much of the following in my more formal academic voice, intending it for the thesis. While it didn't quite make the cut, there are some interesting ideas that I felt were worth sharing, not least because they allow me to pay homage to a most iconic Muppet...  I'm running a FREE three day Clowndance workshop intensive in Leicester in July, and I'm looking for participants to join me...
Almost all of my process comes from either dance or clown, not from traditional drama.
Is clowndance a process, not a genre? Journal entry, 06/12/22 Here's a video of my presentation for De Montfort's 2023 3 Minute Thesis event, where PhD students explain their research, logically enough, in three minutes or less. My title is Clowndance: Disrupting Perfectionism
In my last post, I talked about finding the state of play, communication with the audience and readiness for laughter that Athene Seyler in her iconic book The Craft of Comedy calls ‘bubbling with pleasure’ (Seyler and Haggard, 2013, p. 55).
‘Comedy, shall I say, is the sparkle on the water, not the depths beneath… But note, the waters must run deep underneath.’
- Athene Seyler (Seyler and Haggard, 2013, p. 26) At the start of each day of the Clowndance Summer Course 2022, I wrote a series of questions that I thought the day’s work might address. In true clown style, we failed to answer any of them!
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