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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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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, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma and Deanna Fleysha. Robyn has collaborated with companies including Let’s Circus, The Sexual Health Circus and Whispering Wood Folk and performed with acclaimed physical theatre companies including, Derevo, Akhe, Oceanallover, and Gappad as well as her own award-winning company, Fun in the Oven Theatre. 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. She has also set up the Laboratory of the Un-beautiful; a collaboration with Deborah Antoinette Bard, exploring the bouffon & grotesque with womxn theatre makers. |