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Jonathan Taylor & Anne Goldmann

Daredevil Chicken Club

Dates: Mon 14th Tues 15th and Wed 16th November

Times: 10am-5pm

Cost:

Irish-Based Artists - Subsided by the Arts Council

€101 for 3 days / Early-bird €81 (Until 21st October)

Overseas Artists - €201 for 3 days / Early-bird €161

Booking: 066 71230555 - Visa & Laser

Venue: Tai Chi Centre, 77 Douglas St, Cork City

Applicants must be available for all days.

Clown and Performance Workshop:

This workshop will focus on a genuine connection with the audience in the context of modern clowning.  The students will nurture a unique and comedic point of view developed from the inside-out. We will look for ways of skewing moments to find the absurd and delightful.

Part of the time will be spent on material brought in that the students want to build upon and add layers of truth, ridiculousness and clowning.

We will also play games that illustrate the performance points that can help a performer find improvised moments and cultivate a rich sense of play.

There will be time spent on solo and duo work in which we find starting points for new character and material. And we will focus on finding honest impulses of action and speech.

Biographies

Jonathan Taylor trained at the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theater, Ringling Bros Clown College, and with Clown Master Sue Morrison. He directed and performed with Blue Man Group for eight years in the U.S. Canada and Germany. He also toured the states with Ringling Brothers Circus as a clown and co-created a clown/reality show, Freaks in the Box with Voki Kalfayan.

Jonathan now performs the "Honeymoon Cabaret" with his wife, Anne Goldmann, and his solo clown show "The Collector" around the world at Cabarets, Theater Festivals, and Circuses.

Anne Goldmann started her physical training as a gymnast for 10 years. Her theater training came from 15 years of live performance in conventional, absurd and avant-garde productions. She studied at ACT Academy in San Francisco and engaged in extensive study of vocal production and world music. She also went to the SF Circus School and trained in hand-balancing and acrobatics and learned wire-walking from the Flying Wallendas.

Anne studied Clown with Canadian Master Teacher Sue Morrison and afterwards co-created and produced award-winning shows, "Does this mean anything to you?" then "extra-Ordinary Vacancy", which premiered at PS122 in New York. Since 2001, Anne has performed in festivals, cabaret and street theater in over fourteen countries solo and with her husband as the "Daredevil Chicken Club".

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