Sun February 21, 2016
Creation Out of Nothing: A Workshop in Clown with Ellen and Steve Levine
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at Mountain Home Studio
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This workshop is part of Friends of Tamalpa ArtCorps, a series of workshops featuring very special guests and which benefit ArtCorps, Tamalpa's social engagement program. We are honored to welcome the renowned Ellen and Steve Levine this year!
"For something new to arise, we need to find the empty space from which dreams and imagination can come. In this workshop, we will explore that space through the physical theatre modality of clown.
We begin with playing together. Play is the foundation of clown work and also of all forms of art-making. Play helps us to let go of our pre-conceptions and inhibitions, and to be willing to use our imaginations while connecting with each other. Clowns love to play and they love to have play-mates.
To help ourselves play together, we wear a red nose. The red nose is a little ridiculous, but so are we! The clown nose helps us enjoy being ridiculous together. We stop trying to be perfect and begin to love ourselves with all our difficulties and problems. Clowns are people with problems, and when they try to help each other, they just make the problems worse – but they have fun doing it!
We hope you will have fun in our workshop, and we hope we will too."
Ellen and Steve Levine are leaders in the field of expressive arts. Co-founders of ISIS Canada in Toronto, they are also principal teachers in the Expressive Arts programs at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. They are the authors and editors of many books that focus on the artistic basis of therapeutic work, including, with Paolo Knill, "Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Towards a Therapeutic Aesthetics". Ellen and Steve have taught Clown in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. They perform together as “Max and Sadie,” the crazy but loveable old Jewish couple that they sometimes think they really are.
Proceeds benefit Tamalpa ArtCorps, watch the new ArtCorps video here
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"For something new to arise, we need to find the empty space from which dreams and imagination can come. In this workshop, we will explore that space through the physical theatre modality of clown.
We begin with playing together. Play is the foundation of clown work and also of all forms of art-making. Play helps us to let go of our pre-conceptions and inhibitions, and to be willing to use our imaginations while connecting with each other. Clowns love to play and they love to have play-mates.
To help ourselves play together, we wear a red nose. The red nose is a little ridiculous, but so are we! The clown nose helps us enjoy being ridiculous together. We stop trying to be perfect and begin to love ourselves with all our difficulties and problems. Clowns are people with problems, and when they try to help each other, they just make the problems worse – but they have fun doing it!
We hope you will have fun in our workshop, and we hope we will too."
Ellen and Steve Levine are leaders in the field of expressive arts. Co-founders of ISIS Canada in Toronto, they are also principal teachers in the Expressive Arts programs at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. They are the authors and editors of many books that focus on the artistic basis of therapeutic work, including, with Paolo Knill, "Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Towards a Therapeutic Aesthetics". Ellen and Steve have taught Clown in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. They perform together as “Max and Sadie,” the crazy but loveable old Jewish couple that they sometimes think they really are.
Proceeds benefit Tamalpa ArtCorps, watch the new ArtCorps video here
This workshop is part of Friends of Tamalpa ArtCorps, a series of workshops featuring very special guests and which benefit ArtCorps, Tamalpa's social engagement program. We are honored to welcome the renowned Ellen and Steve Levine this year!
"For something new to arise, we need to find the empty space from which dreams and imagination can come. In this workshop, we will explore that space through the physical theatre modality of clown.
We begin with playing together. Play is the foundation of clown work and also of all forms of art-making. Play helps us to let go of our pre-conceptions and inhibitions, and to be willing to use our imaginations while connecting with each other. Clowns love to play and they love to have play-mates.
To help ourselves play together, we wear a red nose. The red nose is a little ridiculous, but so are we! The clown nose helps us enjoy being ridiculous together. We stop trying to be perfect and begin to love ourselves with all our difficulties and problems. Clowns are people with problems, and when they try to help each other, they just make the problems worse – but they have fun doing it!
We hope you will have fun in our workshop, and we hope we will too."
Ellen and Steve Levine are leaders in the field of expressive arts. Co-founders of ISIS Canada in Toronto, they are also principal teachers in the Expressive Arts programs at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. They are the authors and editors of many books that focus on the artistic basis of therapeutic work, including, with Paolo Knill, "Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Towards a Therapeutic Aesthetics". Ellen and Steve have taught Clown in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. They perform together as “Max and Sadie,” the crazy but loveable old Jewish couple that they sometimes think they really are.
Proceeds benefit Tamalpa ArtCorps, watch the new ArtCorps video here
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"For something new to arise, we need to find the empty space from which dreams and imagination can come. In this workshop, we will explore that space through the physical theatre modality of clown.
We begin with playing together. Play is the foundation of clown work and also of all forms of art-making. Play helps us to let go of our pre-conceptions and inhibitions, and to be willing to use our imaginations while connecting with each other. Clowns love to play and they love to have play-mates.
To help ourselves play together, we wear a red nose. The red nose is a little ridiculous, but so are we! The clown nose helps us enjoy being ridiculous together. We stop trying to be perfect and begin to love ourselves with all our difficulties and problems. Clowns are people with problems, and when they try to help each other, they just make the problems worse – but they have fun doing it!
We hope you will have fun in our workshop, and we hope we will too."
Ellen and Steve Levine are leaders in the field of expressive arts. Co-founders of ISIS Canada in Toronto, they are also principal teachers in the Expressive Arts programs at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. They are the authors and editors of many books that focus on the artistic basis of therapeutic work, including, with Paolo Knill, "Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Towards a Therapeutic Aesthetics". Ellen and Steve have taught Clown in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. They perform together as “Max and Sadie,” the crazy but loveable old Jewish couple that they sometimes think they really are.
Proceeds benefit Tamalpa ArtCorps, watch the new ArtCorps video here
show less
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