Recent film projects
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‘light’ is a montage created from participants of the House of Light Moving Image Workshops for Circus Central’s House of Light event. Participants used smartphones to create self-portraits of artists and The Mining Institute
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‘We are the Family La Bonche’ documents the heritage research project undertaken by the Five Rings Youth Circus as they explored their circus heritage in the North East of England
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‘Five Ring Circus Troupe’ documents the journey of the Five Ring Youth Circus troupe year-long training programme as they work towards their final show
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Other film credits
2011 Art Director for ‘FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT!’ – Short film for Debasers (Scotland) WATCH THE TRAILER
2009 Line Producer for ‘Tixion – Short film for Debasers (Scotland) WATCH THE TRAILER
2005 Art Director for ‘Copy’ – Short film for Bung Monks (New Zealand) for 48 Hour Film Competition WATCH HERE
1997 – 99 Art Department Coordinator for ‘Hercules’ & ‘Xena, Warrior Princess – for Pacific Renaissance US Syndicated TV programmes (New Zealand)
2009 Line Producer for ‘Tixion – Short film for Debasers (Scotland) WATCH THE TRAILER
2005 Art Director for ‘Copy’ – Short film for Bung Monks (New Zealand) for 48 Hour Film Competition WATCH HERE
1997 – 99 Art Department Coordinator for ‘Hercules’ & ‘Xena, Warrior Princess – for Pacific Renaissance US Syndicated TV programmes (New Zealand)
Documentation
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Design
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From 2012 to 2016 I have been involved in documenting two European Partnership Training programmes, Circonnection and ENCI. This involved developing the websites, writing blogs and taking & collating photos. Here is the written culmination of the two projects:
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In 2013 I created our very own newspaper reporting on the research project with members of the Five Rings Youth Circus. The La Bonche followed the journey of these young people and their discoveries as they explored the circus heritage of the North East of England. The project also culminated in a show with young people, and the video I created (see above) that also documented the journey.
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ABOUT ROBYN
Robyn is a Bristol-based director, teacher and performer. With over 20 years experience she is a passionate practitioner of clowning, physical theatre, circus and street arts. She has a MA in Circus Directing, a Diploma of Physical Theatre Practice and trained with a long line of inspiring teachers including Holly Stoppit, Peta Lily, Giovanni Fusetti, Bim Mason, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma, Lucy Hopkins and John Wright.
Over the past five years she has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and a deep desire to address the injustices in the world. This specialism has developed through her Masters Research ‘Small Circus Acts of Resistance’, on the streets and in protests with the Bristol Rebel Clowns and in research residencies with The Trickster Laboratory. Robyn’s Activist Clown research has led to collaborations with Jay Jordan (Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, France), Clown Me In (Beirut), LM Bogad (US), Hilary Ramsden (Greece) and international Tricksters; ‘The Yes Men’ (US). During the pandemic in 2020, Robyn set up The Online Clown Academy with Holly Stoppit and developed a series of Zoom Clown Courses. Robyn’s research, started during her Masters, has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and activism, online, in the real world and with international collaborators. With this drive to explore political edges of her work she has also dived back into the world of the Bouffon; training with Jaime Mears, Bim Mason, Nathaniel Justiniano, Eric Davis, Tim Licata, Al Seed and the grand master Bouffon-himself; Philippe Gaulier. Keen to explore the intersection of clowning and politics, Robyn is driven to create collaborative, research spaces, testing and pushing the limits of the artform to create new knowledge and methodologies for her industry and strengthen partnerships for future work. Some of her most recent collaborations and teaching projects have included the Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy (5-day Activist Clown Training), The Laboratory of the Un-beautiful (Feminist Grotesque Bouffon Training for Womxn Theatre Makers) and the Clown Congress (annual gathering of clowns, activists & academics collectively exploring what it means to be a clown in this current era) |