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JEU-CLOWN WITH MANON BEAUDOIN

Professional Development Workshop

In this three-day Jeu and Clown workshop, participants will engage in playful games and dynamic exercises designed to build trust, complicity, and ensemble connection. Through guided exploration, you’ll discover new impulses that lead your body into comic situations, unlocking spontaneity, presence, and joy in performance.

The workshop will focus on:

  • Laban movement exploration
  • Animal work
  • Colour work
  • Rhythm
  • Ensemble work
  • Duo and solo work
  • Clown games
  • Listening and presence
  • Risk-taking and vulnerability
  • Embracing flaws as sources of comedy
  • Connecting authentically with your audience
  • Learning to follow impulse
  • Participants will experience the power of the ensemble 

This is a rare opportunity to train in Vancouver with Manon Beaudoin, a seasoned creator, clown teacher, and director who has worked with highly renowned companies internationally.

The workshop promises to be highly enjoyable and deeply exploratory—an invitation to discover your own rhythm, comic sensibility, and the pleasure of being fully in the moment through play.

APPLY HERE
  • WORKSHOP DATES + TIMES:

    Fri, March 27 (6-9pm) | Sat, March 28 (2-5pm) | Sun, March 29 (2-5pm)

  • LOCATION:

    BMO Theatre Centre, 162 W 1st Ave

  • DETAILS:

    Limited to 20 participants. Application deadline March 1

  • FEE:

    $100 (includes GST)

  • GOT QUESTIONS?

    Contact: info@touchstonetheatre.com

Presented with:

Manon Beaudoin – Montreal, Canada 

Manon is a director, writer of theatre and circus as well as a performer and teacher of physical theatre. Manon is a co- creator and Director of Amarrable and Directed Cabaret au Bout du Monde for Cirque Eloize aux Iles de la Madeleine She produced and directed The Ballad of Niall McNeil, a western musical web-series written and performed by Niall McNeil. She also has adapted and directed a Theatre/circus/operetta version of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King at The Caravan Farm Theatre in BC 2019./2023.Manon has worked for Cirque du Soleil as a creator for Michael Jackson One at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas; Pan Am Games Opening Ceremony in Toronto; Futuroscope, France and big-top show Volta. She has performed throughout Canada and other parts of the world. She was a core member of the acclaimed wordless masterpiece The Overcoat (CanStage), a hit in festivals around the globe and Co Creator of Flying Blind (Axis/Belfry/Arts Club Theatres in Canada and Legs on the Wall, Australia.) She helped create eight shows for Vancouver’s enduring cult hit Leaky Heaven Circus and was co-founder of an all-woman circus, Cirque Poule. Her plays The Queen of Hearts and The Bloody Clean-Up or the Lamentable Tale of Marie Antoinette have been produced in Canada. She now lives in Montreal and Magog.