Timeline of practical research projects
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Clowndance  for Clowns Summer Intensive
July 2024 - DMU, Leicester

A three day intensive offering material from the Clowndance syllabus to artists working in clown, theatre and stand-up comedy.

Read The Project Report:

• Introduction
• Tuesday: Playing Together
• Wednesday: Duets
• Thursday: Solos

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University of Derby/East Midlands Dance Artists' Network Clowndance Intensive
May 2024 - Déda, Derby

​A two day intensive course introducing the Clowndance syllabus on the MA Dance and Choreography, in collaboration with EMDAN.

Read the Project Report:

• Introduction
• Monday: Playing Together
• Tuesday: Playing with the Audience

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Rambert School Clowndance Intensive
October/November 2023 - Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, London

​A four day intensive course introducing the Clowndance syllabus to a group of third year vocational dance students.

Read the Project Report:

• Introduction
• Monday: Play
• Tuesday: Audience
• Wednesday: Solos
• Friday: Duets

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Workshops
Various dates and locations

A range of short Clowndance workshops, each lasting around two hours, with different groups of students and practitioners.

​Read the Project Reports:

• Eastlab Dance Company - 12/06/23
• DMU: Bodies (Re)Searching Bodies - 11/05/23
• Rambert School: BA Yr 1 - 27/03/23
• Rambert School: MA Dance Research - 24/02/23
• University of Derby - 10/10/22

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MA Performance Practices Project: The Capitalist Self Care Club
Autumn 2022 - DMU, Leicester

A collaborative devising project, with myself as lead artist, for the MA in Performance Practices at De Montfort University.

Read the Project Report:

• Introduction
• Provocations
• Devising
• Rehearsal and Performance

Read the Blog Post:

• Clowndance: Process or Genre?

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Clowndance Summer Course
July 2022 - DMU, Leicester

​​A four-day intensive course, exploring clown principles, games and exercises reinterpreted for dance artists.

​Read the Project Report:

• Introduction
• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday

Read the Blog Posts:

• Bubbling With Pleasure: Part 1
• Bubbling with Pleasure: Part 2
• ​Clowndance Questions

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Clowndance Introductory Workshop
May 2022 - DMU, Leicester

​A planned two-hour workshop, which evolved, due to a lack of participants, into a clowndance improvisation to camera.

Watch the video: Where Are You?

Read the Blog Posts:

• ​On Failure and Perfectionism, Part One
• On Failure and Perfectionism, Part Two

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Mark and the Marked
March 2022 - Box Clever Theatre, London

​Reflective observation of my own rehearsal process, directing Box Clever Theatre's Mark and the Marked, a clown theatre performance for young audiences.

Read the Project Report:

• Introduction
• Week One
• Week Two

​Read the Blog Post: Bonding, Needs and Boss Clowns