INTRO TO CLOWN: a beginner’s workshop with Emmanuelle Delpech

Take a leap into the unknown territory of your own lunacy!

In this introductory workshop, master clown teacher and longtime Pig Iron faculty Emmanuelle Delpech explores the life-affirming absurdity of the human condition.  With little more than a red nose and the body that each performer has inherited, this workshop will uncover each student's unique way of encountering the world.  Delpech’s clown-study invites participants to tap into a deep well of their own humanity and share it with an audience.  Through movement exercises, improvised scenes, physical games, and collaborative performance-making processes, participants will be introduced to the practice of “complicité” – the playful connection between performer and spectator.  Prepare yourself for an adventure into idiocy, virtuosity, ridiculousness, absurd logic and comic vulnerability.  Come find your inner clown and delight in our shared human frailty

 

About Emmanuelle Delpech

Emmanuelle Delpech is a master teacher, performer/creator, and director.  Born in France, she studied physical theater at l’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and completed the 3rd pedagogical year, making her a certified Lecoq teacher.  She also earned an MFA from Temple University in Directing. 

Emmanuelle was a member of The Pig Iron Theatre Company for 8 years as a performer-creator, co-creating acclaimed works such as Gentlemen Volunteers and Hell Meets Henry Halfway. As an independent artist, Emmanuelle directs new creations for other artists, she also creates and performs in her own pieces or directs for regional theaters.  At the Arden Theater in Philadelphia, she has directed La Bete, The Legend of Georgia McBride and Touchtones, a new musical by Michael Holinger.

Emmanuelle has taught at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College and University of the Arts, Temple University, Williams College, and others. She has also taught workshops for the Volcano Institute in Toronto and the Movement Theater Studio in NYC (where she is a regular on the Director’s track). Emmanuelle was a regular faculty member of the Headlong Performance Institute and is a core faculty member at the Pig Iron School.