Directing and Coaching

Online: Clown Coaching and Directing

Online Clown Teaching, Coaching and Directing is a great way to develop your clowning in the direction you want it to go in

Have you ever wanted to come to Cal Clown, but you didn’t have the time or the money?
Do you want to do a clown course, but there are no teachers near where you live?
Do you have a clown idea, but you don’t know how to make it funny, or how to start?
Have you done clown courses, but don’t feel like doing any more, but would like some specific help and advice on your clowning?
Do you want to create a number that has a special meaning that says something, but don’t know how to make it clown?
Or maybe you already have a show and want to improve it or make it funnier? … without leaving your house.
Do you want a really experienced clown teacher to help you with your number and make it better?
Do you want to able to work at the hours you are available?

If you replied yes to any of these questions, I can offer you some help.
I love helping people become more themselves and to be funnier.
I truly enjoy finding people’s uniqueness and stupidity.

In which ways can I help you?

Choose the best online option for you and I will offer you all my knowledge and support at any time we are both available, for as long as you want or require. Work at your own pace and when it’s good for you!

1. Online Clown Course
Clown Course. A complete and thorough series of videos, each with their respective homework exercises, plus personalised feedback. In the First ClownPack you will receive the material normally given in a three weeks full-time course, but with the absolute advantage of having as much time as you wish to digest the process and to practice it. By then you’ll be a great Clown!
The Online Clown Course is available in English, Spanish or Catalan!

2. Online Personalised Teaching/Clown Coaching
Receive the exercises and tasks most appropriate for you, and get feedback and guidance according to your specific needs.

3. Online Direction for Generating/Developing Ideas
Receive direction and guidance on your own creative process. Let me know your ideas, and I will help you find, develop and direct your unique personal material.

4. Online Direction for your Number or Show
I can help you improve and/or extend your clown number/show, using either material we have created together or using an act or show that you already have.

All these options can be combined according to your needs. All you need to do is tell me what you want, or what you think you require, and we go from there!

Who will help you?
Clara Cenoz has been a Clown since 1993 and a teacher for over 15 years. She has been director of the Escola de Clown de Barcelona since 2006. During that time she has helped hundreds of students from all over the world to encounter the Clown and to create unique and personalised numbers. She has performed and written more than 12 shows, touring festivals, theatres, streets, tents and bars throughout Europe.

Prices:
For Option 1 (Online Clown Course) see here for price plans
For Options 2, 3 and 4 (Personalised Teaching, Coaching and Direction), fees are €35/hour-and-a-half, including time spent viewing your work and giving feedback. Each hour consists of intensive and focused concentration on what matters to you, in order to give you the best possible value for money.

Other price plans are available for longer periods of work. Contact us to discuss your needs.

At Cal Clown: Direction and Orientation of Clown Numbers

If you have a Clown number in your head, or have already worked on one, or have even performed it in public, if you want to have one or more Clown numbers which work, for adults or for children, and in different contexts, call us! You can some for a dya or more to Cal Clown and we will work on it.

Clown companies are also welcome to come for a residency in order to get direction on their numbers or show.

Clown Workshops around the World

We are always looking for people interested in collaborating in setting up clown workshops around the world. This would involve finding a suitable venue and putting the word around, and attending the workshop for free, or being paid a percentage, or whatever way we agree to do things. So do please let us know if you think it’s viable in your part of the world and you’d like to chat about how to make it happen. Workshops offered are:

1. Introduction to Clown

2. Creating Clown Numbers

3. Directing and Performing Clown Numbers

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Clown Coaching - a day for your Clown

If you need or desire guidance on your Clown, you can come and spend the day at Cal Clown and we will work on it together via various exercises. At the end you will have received a complete orientation and aid on the state of your Clown’s evolution and on what to do next to help it grow, and what type of numbers would be advisable.

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"When I came to Cal Clown I had a desire to overcome my fears of playing with and for an audience and found difficulties in creating my own clown numbers.

Clara turned out to be an excellent coach in overcoming these fears and difficulties.

Her approach was very personalised and made us understand and value our own strength and possibilities.

In her teachings, besides guiding us into the right state of mind and openness she gave us tools and lots of personalised material to use for performance. The focus being on this rather than merely on clowning techniques or exercises, combined with the different performances we prepared for healthcare facilities, the streets and a local bar, the course really empowered us to put our first baby steps in the world as clown performers.

For those already performing or those in the process of finding their own power as a performer, I think Clara can be the perfect director or guide (or midwife haha). She knew how to accompany me towards more daring, more craziness, more foolishness and more confidence in my own clown.

Clara has many passionate insights to share about the clown as an art form but also guided us to the most powerful teaching of all: the interaction with an audience.

Being surrounded by nature, animals, plants and near a beautiful river was the perfect setting for me, offering regeneration, healing and inspiration. Not to mention wild, edible and medicinal plants!"

(Marie-Claire, 2019)