Meet Clown! - Physical Theater with Peter Sweet | 14-16 March, 2025

14 - 16 March, 2025

Friday 17:00-21:00

Saturday and Sunday 10:00-18:00

Register Here: https://forms.gle/FY6sfh8kSPk32qeF7

Meet Clown!

“The sublime stupidity of the clown is the enduring openness to life and to the present moment, despite the radical imperfection of human nature.” -Giovanni Fusetti

In this 3 day workshop you will learn the fundamentals of theatrical clowning and explore what it is about you that moves people to laughter. By playing together we will enter a naive state of discovery. You will practice sharing your honest, spontaneous reactions with the audience through the theatrical form of your individual clown. This is a brave and playful act of comic poetry. It opens the door to true presence on stage and a freedom to play with everything that happens to you.

Each of us has an individual way of moving that expresses something essential about who we are. Through close observation of the body moving in theatrical space we can learn to recognise our own somatic patterns and amplify them with the help of what Jacques Lecoq called “the smallest mask in the world”: the red nose. This process reveals the unique clown of each person, with its own physicality, voice, costume and comedic timing.

Skills Covered:

Play!

Discovering your clown

Entering and exiting the “clown state”

Playing with space

Making actions clear through articulation

Techniques for sharing your clown’s experience with the audience

This workshop is open to all levels. No prior experience needed.

This workshop uses a donation sliding scale system between 135€- 250€

Register here: https://forms.gle/FY6sfh8kSPk32qeF7

If you have questions please send an email to Peter Sweet: info@petersweet.com

This event is organised in cooperation with Coraggio - Die kulturanstifter e.V.

For more info about workshops, visit https://www.coraggio.de/projekt/coraggio-lab/

About the teacher:

Peter Sweet’s approach to clown combines the madness of play with the rigor of technique. He teaches the most effective tools that he has used in his 20+ years of performing and directing clown, physical theatre, and circus. Peter first discovered clown in a workshop with Avner "The Eccentric" Eisenberg in 2003 and has developed his practice of clowning and clown pedagogy through his long mentorship with Giovanni Fusetti, founding director of the Helikos International School of Theater Creation. His unique approach has been further enriched by his experience as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, Wutao breath-work, and a wide range of somatic and martial arts.

Professionally, Peter's solo and duo shows: Meet Pete Sweet (Clown developed with Avner "The Eccentric" Eisenberg), Swinging High (directed by Giovanni Fusetti), BOOM! (directed by Matteo Destro) and Foolish Doom (directed by Matteo Destro) have toured in over 20 countries.

Peter served as the director of performance in the circus department at Die Etage Berlin for 4 years. He is a thesis advisor and coach at Fonty’s Netherlands masters program in choreography and has been a guest teacher at the Stockholm University of Dance and Circus, Zurich University of the Arts and the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich.

Peter  studied physical theatre at the Helikos International School  of Theatre  Creation in Florence, contemporary and classical dance at  the Salzburg  Experimental Academy of Dance in Salzburg and circus at  Ecole du Cirque  Zofy in Sion (CH). He is a certified teacher of both  the Alexander  Technique and Wutao, a French movement art based on  breath and  undulation.

Peter is currently based in Berlin (DE), where he directs professional companies, teaches workshops and creates new works of inspired madness. In his free time he reads, drums, flies kites, and watches Muppet show re-runs.