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Artmedia - Physical Theatre News - November 2003
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Sponsor:

    CircoArts, Circus Training in Christchurch, New Zealand

 

Playspace:

    Summer School, & 2004 Clown School, Sydney, Australia

 

Features:

    Rock 'n' Roll Circus - 2004 Positions Available, Brisbane

    Red Spoon presents a 'Clown Theatre Intensive', Brisbane

    Port Fairy Folk Festival seeks Street Acts, Victoria, Australia

 

Networking:

    1st Annual New Zealand Improv Festival, Auckland

    12th New Zealand, International Juggling Festival, Taupo

    NZ International Comedy Festival, Auckland & Wellington

    Bindlestiff Family Circus seeks Vaudeville Acts, New York

    Applications to perform at San Francisco Fringe 04, USA

    Acts wanted for Bradford's Cabaret and Revue, England

    The Puppet Centre Trust announces two Bursaries, London

    Welfare State seeks participants for Multi-media Project, UK

    Current announcements on the KultNet site, Germany

    Report on the 17th World Dance Congress, Naxos, Greece,

    The International Festival of Capoeira, Bogota, Columbia

 

Campaign:

    Expanding US Clown Association Competition Categories

 

Noticeboard:

    Children's Theater Development Centre, Prishtina, Kosovo

    Amphitheatre of the Arts, UK, seeks tour of Australia

    Book Review - David Bartlett's 'The Clown Star'

 

Artmedia:

    Newsletter Subscriptions & Unsubscriptions

    Newsletter Advertising and Artmedia site promotion

 

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Artmedia News

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Welcome to the November edition of the Artmedia physical

theatre newsletter, a publication with an Australasian focus

and a global perspective.

 

First up, our apologies to those who tried to respond to last

month's issue of the newsletter, and got a bounced response,

this happened because the last issue was sent out from

Ottawa with a non-existent Canadian 'reply to address'. Some

other subscribers won't have received the last issue because

their spam filter caught it.

 

If you or your friends have suddenly stopped receiving the

newsletter, suggest that they adjust the spam filter to enable

mail from artmedia. Often the way we send the newsletter,

say from different addresses, or addressed as 'to undisclosed

recipients, is used by spam filters as triggers to try and

recognize spam, and the newsletter gets put in the junk mail.

 

I am back in Sydney, fresh from the wilds of North America,

which was of course wonderful, and we say hi to those who

have gathered in Baltimore for MotionFest this week, and also

to those here in Australia who are fresh from the RichMix

training project run by Circus Monoxide in Wollongong last

week.

 

Circus Monoxide are arguably Australia's most innovative

physical theatre company, having already spawned the very

successful director of the Australian flagship company, Circus

Oz, so catch Monoxide's new double-decker bus with its

'Swiss army knife stages' and the physical antics that goes

with it, whenever you get the opportunity.

 

This month we welcome as sponsor the CircoArts training at

the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology in New

Zealand, 'a dynamic establishment that has a great deal to offer

students working towards a Diploma in Circus Arts', and we

recommend their training program.

 

The sponsors and feature advertisers in each issue are covering

the costs of sending this newsletter to you at no cost, so please

patronize their activities, and also take the opportunity to use

future issues of this newsletter to promote your own work, at

very reasonable rates.

 

In the Features this month, one of Australia's ground-breaking

companies, Rock 'n' Roll Circus, seeks both a new member for

their troupe which is based in Brisbane, and also an Associate

Producer, while Red Spoon presents a 'Clown Theatre Intensive',

also in Brisbane, and the Port Fairy Folk Festival seeks Street

Acts for their event in Victoria.

 

While in Playspace news, I promote my Clown Summer School

in Sydney next February, and unveil a new four month Clown

School for the middle of next year.

 

In the Networking we have a New Zealand focus this month,

with information on the 1st Improv Festival in Auckland, the 12th

New Zealand International Juggling Festival to be held in Taupo,

and on the NZ International Comedy Festival, held in both

Auckland and Wellington.

 

In America we have information on the Bindlestiff Family Circus

who are seeking Vaudeville Acts in New York, and also on

applications to perform at next year's San Francisco Fringe.

 

You will have to move quickly on two of the UK items in this

issue, as interest in performing at Bradford's Cabaret and Revue

must be notified by tomorrow, and applications for the Puppet

Centre Trust Bursaries by the beginning of next week. Welfare

State International is also seeking participants for Creative

Alchemy, a multi-media storytelling project.

 

We also have some festival announcements from the KultNet site

in Germany, a report on the 17th World Dance Congress in

Naxos, Greece, and information on the International Festival of

Capoeira, which starts next week in Bogota, Columbia.

 

We conclude the clown debate that we have been running for

the past few months, by broadening the discussion to America,

and to the growth of the clown art form there. Here in Australia,

the campaign to make the curriculum at NICA more clown-friendly,

turned nasty recently, with one of the commentators in last months

issue loosing his job as a result of his post, and talk of balkanizing

the industry. It all comes out in the wash, and we did our best.

 

In the Noticeboard section, the Children's Theater Development

Centre, in Prishtina, Kosovo, seeks contacts, the Amphitheatre of

the Arts, from the UK, seeks a tour of Australia, and, for those who

have been following the clown debate, we have a review of David

Bartlett's new book 'The Clown Star'.

 

And finally, in an update on the Australian National Circus and

Physical Theatre Association, which some readers may remember

were advertising for a new Executive Officer a few months ago,

this position has now been filled, and Catherine Oddie is the new

exec, and she is based at the Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane. The

Judith Wright Centre is trying to position itself as a centre for Circus

and Physical Theatre and their office is down the hall from that of

Rock 'n' Roll Circus. Find a link to the Circus and Physical Theatre

Assn site under Resources at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

We aim to provide an avenue of communication for the growing

physical theatre community, so please send us info for inclusion in

this newsletter. Please also forward this to somebody else who

may be interested.

 

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Artmedia Site News

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  In Artmedia Site News, Sue Broadway has information on her

touring shows  www.artmedia.com.au/broadway.htm

  Impromptu Theatrix run impro classes in Sydney, specialising

in Commedia. www.artmedia.com.au/improvisation.htm

  Hemlock Mejarne is an acrobat, stilt-walker, who has a

large range of skills. www.artmedia.com.au/acronym.htm

  Got it Flaunt it! are a performance duo who specialise in event

invigoration. www.artmedia.com.au/gotitflauntit.htm

  Circus Unique offers children's workshops and tailored

entertainment packages. www.artmedia.com.au/circusunique.htm

  The Physical TV site has info on Richard James Allen and Karen

Pearlman's Dance Films. www.artmedia.com.au/physical_tv.htm

  Sydney Aerial Theatre Association have information on classes

and performance projects at  www.artmedia.com.au/aerial.htm

 

On the Artmedia site you can find a list of links to performers,

companies, resources and festivals all over the world, and you

can subscribe to this newsletter, and find a copy of the latest issue.

 

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Sponsor: CircoArts, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology,

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CircoArts at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology

(CPIT), New Zealand may not immediately spring to mind when

choosing a school for circus related performing arts, but this

dynamic establishment has a great deal to offer students working

towards a Diploma in Circus Arts.

 

It is fully dedicated to its full-time two-year programme students,

with a mutually supportive culture that encourages a group

approach to problem solving and imaginative devising, in line with

the discipline required to reach and maintain a very high standard

of skills in an individual's chosen field.  Students appreciate the

curriculum emphasis on each person being the creator of their

material and having the use of dedicated facilities and equipment to

train and practice their routines whenever they wish, outside normal

teaching hours.

 

According to Godfrey Sim, Programme Leader, CircoArts attracts

students from around the world who wish to learn their art in an

English speaking school that has accessible entry requirements -

students are chosen because they have the core ability and receive

one-on-one training within the group dynamic to develop and

strengthen their skills.

 

Students have the freedom to explore their diversity and

individuality in training. The diploma covers circus skills, devising

and performance, body training including exercise science, with

history and comparative studies adding a further dimension. There

is the opportunity for electives in year two with a course focus on

both group production and individual acts, managed training

programmes as well as business and risk management skills.

Students emerge from CircoArts with the ability to deliver both in

performance and business.

 

As part of developing a student's intelligent contribution to the

devising process a professional director is employed to facilitate

the devising and production of an ensemble theatre/circus show

during Year 2 of the course. The participation in this production

pulls together a wide range of skills accumulated by students

during the course and reinforces the supportive culture that is a

strength of CircoArts.

 

As the only school of its kind in New Zealand, CircoArts works

hard to create a supportive community focus with programmes

in recreation centres and schools, encouraging involvement in all

areas of the community. With New Zealand's flourishing festivals

being a natural source for performing there is plenty of

opportunity for practice and employment.

 

If you would like to know more about training at CircoArts,

New Zealand, take a look at our website: www.circoarts.com.

OR email us at leec@cpit.ac.nz  Note that late applications are

open until 16th Jan 2004 and audition tapes in by Fri 23rd

Jan 2004. The academic year starts Mon 23rd February 2004.

 

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Playspace - Summer School, and 2004 Clown School, Sydney

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Building on 20 years of clown teaching, Alan Clay has this year

presented this Clown Masterclass program in New Zealand,

Australia, Canada and USA. Alan will next year be offering an

intensive 4-day Summer School, and a 16-week Clown School

for those with more time to devote to training in the art.

 

Sydney 4-day Clown Summer School, Australia - February

2 to 5, 2004. Mon to Thurs, 10am to 4pm. Cost: Aus$420

(earlybird, before December 15) Aus$540 (full). This workshop

provides a physical approach to the clown art form, exploring

playfulness, irreverence, and the freedom of not knowing. Each

day starts with a yoga warm up, followed by exercises to develop

physical and emotional expression, and improvisational exercises

to develop comic timing and rapport. Enrolments and information

sydneysummer@artmedia.com.au

 

4 Month Clown School, Tuesday and Thursday, 10am to 4pm

May 11 to August 26, 2004 ( 16 weeks ).

A four month clown intensive for those who want to develop the

work over a longer period. We all grow differently, but the longer

courses give room for each students individual process, and the

opportunity to develop practices and skills to enhance the work.

This course will be a physically based exploration of the

emotionality, vulnerability and playfulness of the clown.

Earlybird, ( prior to February 11 ):  Aus$2,200

Full price, ( by May 11 ):  Aus$3,000

Installments:  Aus$700 deposit, and 8 payments of $350

Enrolments and information clownschool@artmedia.com.au

More information at www.artmedia.com.au/playspac.htm

 

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Feature - Rock 'n' Roll Circus seeks Ensemble Performer

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Rock 'n' Roll Circus in Brisbane, Australia, is seeking a new

ensemble member for 2004. The ideal candidate will have:

 

Ø High-level circus skills across a range of disciplines; ideally

including experience as an acrobatic base and an aerialist

Ø Performance experience and ability

Ø A commitment to the in-depth exploration of circus a serious

art form

Ø A desire to undertake regular training, development,

performances and touring.

 

Employment begins late January 2004 and is ongoing. Pay

will be MEAA minimum (around $700AUD/week+super

and holidays). Rock 'n' Roll Circus is an equal opportunity

employer and takes its workplace health and safety

obligations seriously. Employment is based in our purpose

built studio in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

 

If you are interested, please send your CV with an expression

of interest to Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director, Rock 'n' Roll

Circus yaron@rocknrollcircus.com or fax to + 61 7 3852 3110.

For further enquiries, contact the Rock 'n' Roll Circus office

on + 61 7 3852 3110.

 

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Feature - Rock 'n' Roll Circus seeks P/T Associate Producer

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Rock 'n' Roll Circus in Brisbane, Australia, is seeking a part

time Associate Producer as a fixed term position from February

to August, 2004 (2.5 days per week).

 

The Associate Producer will work with the Artistic Director and

the Acting General Manager to assist the Company in achieving

its artistic vision. Emphasis will be placed on maximising the

earnings of its five income centres and implementing effective

communications and sales strategies. We seek a highly motivated

and committed person who enjoys the challenge of operating

successfully within a small arts organisation. Work hours are

flexible and remuneration is $39,000 pro rata.

 

Applications close on Wednesday 3 December, 2003.

 

A position description and selection criteria can be requested

through admin@rocknrollcircus.com or calling the Rock 'n' Roll

Circus office on 07 3852 3110. Please address applications

attention to Mr. Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director/CEO, Rock 'n'

Roll Circus, PO Box 116, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006, Australia.

 

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Feature - Red Spoon presents a 'Clown Theatre Intensive'

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An opportunity to discover the incredible and tumultuous world

of the clown ! Finding ones clown is an important process for any

performers. At the heart of clown there exists a fundamental of

humanities that can be translated in any genre of performance.

Clown ignites the absurd that is in all of us and gives us greater

access to our creative impulse as actors, performers, artists and

humans.

 

Program Includes: · Slapstick Fight Choreography with Scott Witt

· Red Nose Clown, · Clown Character, · Clown Relationships,

· Movement Training

 

This intensive will be led by Brisbane based Clown specialist

Andrew Cory - Andrew has had extensive international training

and stage experience. He has studied at Ecole Philippe Gaulier

(London), Centre Selavy Mask School (France), The School For

Mime Theatre (USA) and Bont's International Clown School

(Spain). Andrew is a co-founder of The Angry Mime performance

night at The Brisbane Powerhouse.

 

Clown Theatre Intensive

2 weeks full-time Monday - Friday 10:00am to 4:00 pm / COST:

$440, Metro Arts /Brisbane, QLD. January 12-23, 2004

For further enquiries please contact Marie Rischmann

0405 212 433 or pouilly@freesurf.fr  Web: www.redspoon.com.au

 

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Feature - Street Theatre Acts wanted for Port Fairy Folk Festival

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Good Evening... Welcome to the next PFFF - March 5 - 8, 2004,

one of the country's most acclaimed festivals. We are finalising a

team of Street Theatre & Kids Folk Circus acts for 2004.

 

Street Performance is encouraged and welcomed by the festival.

There is really two main festival areas  -  the Free Festival of The

Streets and the ticketed events in The Arena.  The street area is

a very successful area for visiting street performers to work.

 

The Deal:

FEE: A set retainer fee:  $500 for three shows or $1000 for 4

shows ( Fri eve to Mon am) These scheduled shows will be in

The Arena ( no hat permitted as patrons have paid )

Apart from these scheduled shows you would be free to work

the street as you please.

Accomm: We will provide free camp site space.

 

The beautiful fishing village of Port Fairy is 3.5 hours drive west

of Melbourne. ( Take the inland road via  Mortlake).

Contact ASAP  + 61 3 5225 1232,  Fax: + 61 3 5225 1211,

Email: pfff@portfairyfolkfestival.com  With best wishes, The

Ministry of Artists PFFF

 

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Networking

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"The 1st Annual NZ Improv Festival, Nov 19 - Dec 21, Covert

Theatre, Auckland. Five weeks of the best local and international

improvised comedy. The festival kicks off with NZ's most

successful comedy act, The Improv Bandits, celebrating their 6th

birthday, followed by Bare from the USA, a two-man act with the

energy of a ten-piece rock band, and Femprov, NZ's only

all-women improv troupe, now preparing to head down to the

Wellington Fringe Festival. Visit our site for all the latest

happenings at the Covert Theatre." Find a link to the Covert

under Resources at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"12th New Zealand, International Juggling Festival will be held

February 5 - 8, 2004. This four-day event to be held at the

Iwitahi Outdoor Recreation Centre, Taupo, New Zealand,

features workshops, shows, exhibitions, and parties. Join up with

more than 100 other jugglers and new-jugglers from around New

Zealand and the world to learn, relax and party at a the festival site.

In 2004 the festival is associated with the Taupo Arts Festival, and

the festival Public Show and juggling Olympics will be part of the

opening weekend of this event. The Iwitahi Outdoor Recreation

Centre is an old forestry camp that has been converted into a fully

equipped outdoor recreation centre. It features dozens of small

cabins, flying foxes (hanging slides) through the trees, a 'wet-back'

hot water system (we'll need to chop our own wood), a huge

kitchen with a comfortable dining area, and swimming hole (with a

flying-fox over it). In addition to cabins there is a flat grassy area

for camping. The event will include live music on site, parties and

juggling through the night, workshops and play with a special

beginners to advanced ball juggling, clubs, diabolos, staff and poi,

off road uni-cycling and swimming, the Renegade Show, Juggling

Olympics, Public Show, Fire Party, and Unicyle Hockey." Find

a link to the New Zealand Juggling Festival under Festivals at

www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"Hi Alan, It is with great pleasure that the festival formally known

as LAUGH announces a name change. We are now... The NZ

International Comedy Festival. The Festival in Auckland will be

curated this year. This means that acts wishing to participate in

Auckland will have to apply to a Curatorial Panel. The Festival

has matured in the past decade, as have NZ performers. We

have been successful in providing an Umbrella platform for NZ

Comedy, but we will be better able to support and develop the

performers, shows, venues and the comedy going audiences by

creating a festival that is exceptionally good rather than big. The

Festival in Wellington will remain an open Umbrella Festival.

Applications for the 2004 Auckland Festival are due in 6 weeks,

on Friday 19 December. If you would like to discuss your show

with us, appointments are available from Monday 17 November.

To  make an appointment, just get in touch with Kylie at the

Festival Office (09 309 9241/ kylie@comedyfestival.co.nz).

NZ International Comedy Festival will take place 1 - 22 May

2004 in Auckland, Wellington and the Comedy Convoy

nationwide. Check out more information on our website, and

note that you need a password to access this site, and it is:

hahaha." Kind regards, Hilary McMillan, Festival Director.

Find a link to the new NZ International Comedy Festival site

under Festivals at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"Attention Variety Artists: jugglers, tap dancers, novelty musicians,

clowns, aerialists, rope spinners, wire walkers, sideshow marvels,

and other entertaining folks. The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is

reopening the doors of the Palace of Variety, New York's last

vaudeville house. This means that we are seeking acts and shows.

Do you want to present your show on Times Square? There are a

select number of time slots available for single night and short runs

of productions. Dates available starting December 12. Seeking

New York area and touring guest artists for weekly late night

variety show. The show will feature an international congress of

variety entertainers. Acts can send in material or present their act

at the weekly open stage cabaret audition at the Palace of Variety

on Tuesday nights. We are currently scheduling acts through

February. Send videos and promo material. Send proposals for

one hour shows." Find a link to the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus under

Circus at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"Are you interested in performing at the San Francisco Fringe

Festival in September 2004?  Applications to perform at SF Fringe

2004 are now available on our website. We begin accepting

applications on January 7, 2004 at 9am. This is the largest and most

grass roots theater festival in San Francisco. It is open to all

performers with locals selected at a public lottery and national and

international performers selected on a first-received, first-accepted

basis." Find a link to the San Francisco Fringe under Festivals at

www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"Wanted!!  Entertainers, comedians, singers, dancers, jugglers,

magicians, musicians. Grey Sheep Productions want you to show

us your act. Do you want to be part of Bradford's new cabaret

and revue, launching in 2004?  Come along and try out your

material on 4th December 2003. Grey Sheep Productions are an

independent company producing a series of 21st century Cabaret

events in Bradford in 2004. Produced in a variety of local venues

the 'Baa-Ha Club' will feature the best in local and national talent

in a cabaret of live music, comedy and other exciting live

entertainers. Hosted by our compare and accompanied by the

Baa-Ha 'House Band', performers will be part of an exciting and

new kind of entertainment, giving local audiences a great night out.

If you want to be a part of a professionally run cabaret, contact us

so you can be part of our 'Get Your Act Together' evening on

Thursday 4th December. All acts must contact us by 14th

November 2003." info@greysheep.org.uk

 

"The Puppet Centre Trust is pleased to announce two Bursaries

for professional practitioners of puppetry to extend their skills and

understanding of the medium. The Bursaries are worth UK£8500

each. The bursaries will allow two practitioners (joint applications

can be considered) of at least five years professional experience in

the performing arts to take time off to follow a course of

developmental work (e.g. the study of voice, movement,

manipulation; study with a particular artist or company at home or

abroad; practical research) for the advancement of their personal

knowledge of or skill in puppetry. Applications are welcomed from

individuals working across the arts who can demonstrate a

commitment to developing their skills in puppetry. The role of the

PCT will be to choose the two most promising applications, and to

offer practical advice and assistance in the successful candidates'

programme of action, as necessary. A small panel will interview a

shortlist of applicants, probably in early December. Applicants for

the awards are asked to send a clear and succinct proposal, with

costings and a CV by November 17th to the Chair of the PCT,

Professor Anthony Dean, Puppet Centre, BAC, Lavender Hill,

London SW11 5TN. Please contact the PCT to receive guidelines

for candidates." Find a link to the Puppet Centre Trust under

Resources at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"Creative Alchemy: A Multi-media Storytelling Project. Welfare

State International, who have established themselves as "Britain's

foremost performance and installation collective", is seeking a

small number of multi-skilled creative people to work with us to

create the armature of an unusual tour. Creative Alchemy is an

experimental story telling project, a small scale multi-media

performance journey which will explore the real and mythic links

between Cumbria and the Baltic Rim. The tour and show will

continue to grow and change through contact and exchange and

be presented in non standard, possibly outdoor, venues. We are

seeking good communicators from the areas of art and/or science

who enjoy experimentation, improvisation and open ended play.

They will be alchemists who individually bring a toolkit of skills

and experience across artforms, for example IT/digital media,

storytelling/gathering, visual arts & sculpture, music and song,

and in their working relationships with others. The team will come

together between 9th - 27th February 2004 at Lanternhouse,

WSI's home in Ulverston, Cumbria. A fee, travel and accom will

all be provided. Closing date for applications, 5th December 03.

Interviews will be held during the week of 15th December 03."

For further information and application details, contact Jay Haigh,

Programme Manager jay@welfare-state.com

 

"Dear Alan, hereby we inform you about current announcements

on the KultNet site:

  Summer Variety 2004 in Ostfildern, near Stuttgart, the summer

Variety program looks for new generation artists with commitment.

  Bielefelder Cabaret Prize 2004 new generation prize for young

cabaret artists and comedians from all German-speaking countries.

  Cabaret Kaktus in Munich, seeks groups and soloists. 35 years

with their first or second program from the ranges cabaret and

comedy, as well as cabaret beginners." Find a link to KultNet

under Resources at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"This is the final report of the 17th World Dance Congress,

"Dance in Education", Naxos, Greece, 22-26/10/2003. There

were 406 registered conferees, and 41 countries represented. 61

research reports or lecture-demonstrations, and 21 classes were

presented. 14 dance ensembles performed, totaling 240 dancers

and 31 musicians and a 457-page book of proceedings was

published. Copies of the proceedings can be ordered from the

national Dora Stratou Theater, mail@grdance.org . This congress

is strictly non-profit: none of  the organizers receives a fee. Not to

be confused with dance workshops, festivals, symposiums or open

conferences. It is the largest gathering of dance specialists ever;

with the strictest specifications and the richest program. The next

World Dance Congress will take place in October 2004." Find a

link to the World Dance Congress under Festivals and Events at

www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"Dear Friends, the Cultural Foundation Cayena will organise the

International Festival of Capoeira Angola III, from Tuesday 18

to Sunday 23 November in Bogota, Columbia. It will be one

week full of activities like workshops, samples of videos,

conferences, encounters, artistic presentations and one skill class

after another. We welcome the participation of Brazilian Masters

Jogo De Dentro and Deborah Miranda. The event is open to

children, young people, adults, instructors or not of Capoeira, that

wish to extend their knowledge or to learn this art and to the public

in general. We have two courses of Capoeira Angola with

theoretical and practical classes of history, music and movements

of this art. Each course has a duration of 20 hours and will be led

by teacher Jogo De Dentro." Kindly; Paola Andrea Ruiz, Cultural

foundation Cayena, Bogota, Colombia. For more information,

e-mail: fundacioncayena@hotmail.com

 

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Clown Categories to US Clown Association Competitions

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This month we conclude the clown debate that we have been

running for the past few months, by broadening the discussion to

America, and the growth of the art form there.

 

Here in Australia, the campaign to reform the curriculum at NICA

to make it more clown-friendly, turned nasty recently, with one of

the commentators in last months issue loosing his job as a result of

his post, and talk of 'balkanizing the industry'.

 

So, together with a lack of movement on the promised clown

forum, we see from this that the problems at NICA are endemic to

the management of the organisation, and that stronger measures

than public debate will be required to facilitate a change... It all

comes out in the wash, and we did our best.

 

The following discussion occurred on the Yahoo group 'clowns'

in the past month. "This forum is for the spreading of information

about all aspects of clowning. For sharing experiences, both bad

and good. To help each other to learn more about clowning. To

allow each of us to become better clowns." To sign up to this

yahoo group, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clowns

 

"As much as I love Ringling, there's just something special about

a genuine, canvas-covered Big Top circus. But, there can be too

much reliance on tradition. After all, gas lights, wooden stoves and

outhouses used to be traditional...as were horse-drawn carriages

and spittoons. Let's cherish the traditions but look to the future of

clowning.  EVERYONE should write their respective associations

(COAI, WCA, SECA, WCA, etc.) Today and Demand that

changes to the rules requiring "traditional" full make- up, "traditional"

clown personae, "traditional" clown costumes, etc. for competitions

and coaching sessions be changed to accommodate the spreading

popularity of the Euro clown, minimal make-up & costume image...

which has a far older basis in tradition than the bright (and beautiful)

American clown. At the very least, it should be brought to a vote of

the membership or made a dominant platform for future officer

elections." Skip the Clown. Find a link to Skip's site under Clowns

at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

"Rather than changing traditions within the organizations, I think it

would be nice to see recognition of the progression the art of

clowning has made. Looking at other disciplines like singing. The

Grammy awards did not stop offering awards for popular

categories but rather added new ones, so now there is an award

for Best Country Album or best Rap, or hip hop or gospel, or

contemporary christian or  new age. I would say that maybe the

respective associations could add a free style, European, modern,

traditional, etc categories to their competitions and coaching

sessions." Yours in Christ, Bob Smith, aka Handi the Clown,

 

"This is a good idea that ought to reach the right ears. It just

makes complete sense. Instead of trying to shove everyone in to

a pigeonhole slot, let this thing grow and do something about

advancing everyone. I know a lot of ruffled feathers that would

get smoothed with a move like this, starting with me. It wouldn't

mean abandoning tradition, it would mean advancing new changes

and giving everyone a shot to shine ... now, go make sure the

powers that be hear this !!!!" Honeybunch

 

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"Dear all, The Center for Children's Theater Development in

Prishtina, Kosovo, has a mission for developing the children's

theater in region, by focusing its educative and social role. We

would be very grateful to get in contact with similar centers, or

foundations that are interested to support these kind of projects

in our region. For more information about our Center and our

project "Theatre for children-art and education", please contact

us via e-mail, and I hope that we will hear from you soon." Best

regards, Jeton Neziraj, qavmm@yahoo.com

 

"Hello Mr Clay; our first show kathak meets circus, can be

performed with 5 to 8 performers, depending on budgets.

We have very little cargo with us, and we can adapt from street

performances under a rig, to theatres or bigtops. Our work is

very theatrical and political, it would also be appropriate for events

like the gay pride as the main story is a gay love story in the air,

although a straight love story travels parallel with it. Amphitheatre

of the Arts wishes to raise awareness of "New Circus" as an art

form whilst exploring social issues, in combination with cultural art

forms, creative circus skills and educational programmes for the

wider community. The performance is accompanied by visual

theatre, circus skills (Vertical rope solo & duo, straps, trapeze and

juggling), and contact movement. We would like to know if there

are any openings for our work to be booked in your part of the

world." best regards, JM Akkerman

amphitheatreofthearts@btopenworld.com

 

"Book Review - David Bartlett - The Clown Star - Five Points

To Guide You Toward Continual Progress -  Pub. 2003

If you have any ambition to be better clown, entertainer, or

person, this book will help you find the areas you need to work

on. David is exceptionally clear about how to become the best

you can be. He's spelled it all out. Right here. And he's right.

One of my favorite parts is the 7 Levels of Laughter. David talks

about the audience's reactions from smirks to guffaws to ... well,

you've got to read it. His explanation of how to move the

audience from one level of laughter to another is one of the best

approaches to explaining a comedy entertainment that I have

read. Warning - Reading this book will make you think. If you

are just starting out,  if you are good but want to get better, if

you are willing to do the work but are not sure what to work on,

get this book. Highly Recommended. Soft Cover, 1/2 Size,

Perfect Bound, 183 Pages." Tom Myers. Get this book from the

T. Myers Magic Web Store, and find this link under Resources

at www.artmedia.com.au/links.htm

 

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