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 French physical theater artist and teacher living in the States.

She was classically trained and then studied physical theater at the École Jacques Lecoq. 25 years later she validated her 3rd pedagogical year, which makes her one of a few certified Lecoq teachers in the US. After that year, she was invited onto the faculty at the Lecoq School in Paris. She also has an MFA in Directing from Temple University.

She has worked with Pig Iron for many years as a performer and teacher. Emmanuelle is a core faculty member at the Pig Iron School.

She teaches workshops all over the States and in many different universities including Yale University, Williams College, and Swarthmore College. She has received many grants and awards for her work.