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Embracing the 6 Directions: A 10 Day Transformational Amerindian Mask Making & Sacred Clown Workshop and Retreat
July 17-26th
Seattle, WA (location forthcoming, to be held in an inspiring location with nature walks nearby)
$750 (Deposit due by 5/1/09)
Ian Wallace, internationally acclaimed performer, teacher and co-founder of Canadian Clowing focuses on the internal techniques of gesture, body language and voice. It is a workshop of self-discovery, a way in to your creative source and how to use your unique energies to create a character and clown.
Participants will make a Medicine Wheel Mask holding the energy of the 6 directions.
The seventh mask, trickster/clown/buffo/zanii/heyoka brings all 6 together and is represented by the clown nose.
"pochinko mask" technique allows you to interpret any character mask simply through form and color, bypassing the thought process."
Exercises during this workshop retreat include:
CENTERING – 7 direction Medicine Wheel, Rooting of sound, Integrating Body, Mind Spirit.
INTRO TO NEUTRAL MASK – Starting place, Readiness, Necessity, Economy, Universal.
WALKING TO THE WALL – Being in the moment, confronting fears,
LOOKING FOR A FEELING –Listening inside, seeing with the whole body,
EMOTIONAL POLARITIES – Creating safe space to experience and balance universal energies of Love/Fear, Innocence/Experience, Masculine/Feminine, etc.
COLOR RHYTHMS- Expressing personal movement, sound and emotion triggered by the internal resonance of different color vibrations,
RETURN TO CHILDHOOD – Exploring the Innocence of the character,
FORMING A PERSONAL MASK – on clay, with the eyes closed, from an internal rhythm. Then Papier-mache over the clay and Painting of the resultant paper mask.
MASK WEARING – bringing the mask physically and vocally to life, using color and form, makeup and costume as character sources.
CLOWNING - Playing the Innocence and Experience of the Mask character to broaden into the universal arena of the Trickster, Buffoon, Contrary, Heyoka,
Ian Wallace is a founding member of Toronto’s Theatre Resource Centre (1975), Ian worked in partnership with Richard Pochinko to evolve the T.R.C. Mask/Clown Technique – a uniquely Canadian approach to Mask largely drawn from Amerindian sources – and to establish a safe, creative environment for theatre artists. Best known for his work as “Nion” on stage and on film for which he received both “Dora” and “Genie” nominations, Ian is a multi-disciplinary artist, bringing together elements of Mask, Clown, Ritual Ceremony, Performance, Video and Graphic Arts. He has played such varied characters as Picasso, Hitler, Jean Genet, Ezra Pound, Pythagoras, Alfred Jarry’s “Supermale”, “Nion”, the Demon, and many “Fools
"In a lifelong search for meaning, I have found the clown to be the best, all-encompassing metaphor for the human condition - an uncompromising mirror to look into for glimpses of the truth. We look at the clown and see ourselves - our hopes, dreams, fears, and virtues, our flaws and our process. Clowns show us how, as a species, we get into trouble - without ever meaning or wanting to - and how, in spite of ourselves, we sometimes stumble onto sublime solutions to our problems. The Fool has eyes to see, and heart to recognize."
Email Eileen at deyeileen@gmail.com for registration information.
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| Ian with Ojibway teens, trickster workshop, Manitoulin Island |
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