The Playful Practice ARCHIVE

The playful practice

Morning sessions in movement, physical theatre & clown

Awaken Your Playful Spirit with morning Movement, Physical Theatre & Clown Training!

Join Robyn Hambrook and friends for unique morning sessions designed to inspire creativity, connection, and fun. These classes are perfect for clowns, dancers, actors, circus artists, improvisers, movers or anyone curious about developing a playful embodied practice.

Start your week with a dynamic and embodied practice, tailored for those who want to keep their skills sharp through the winter months. This is a space to explore movement, expression, and play in a supportive and energising environment.

Each week we’ll explore a wide range tools to ignite the imagination and stimulate the creative process. Expect a joyous mix Lecoq and Laban-based movement invitations and clown-inspired improvisations to spark creativity through play and discovery.

What to bring: Comfortable clothes, water, and a readiness to get moving and have fun!

★ "Robyn’s Clown Soup helps me challenge myself in a safe and enjoyable space. She’s intuitive, supportive and allows me to take risks that expand my thinking and being in everyday situations. I’d highly recommend her classes for everyone who wants a fresh look at themselves."
Participant, 'Clown Soup' Weekly Clown Classes

★ "This course was great fun and an excellent balance of building on fundamentals and introducing new elements. I am a better idiot because of it."
Participant, 'Clown 2: Building Blocks'

★ “Robyn facilitated magic to happen in me & my heart opened to the clown of love & compassion, & empathy & fun. Very grateful to Robyn for opening a portal to my heartfelt world. “
Participant, 'Clown Soup' Weekly Clown Classes

★ "Lots of tools for use as a clown or just in your every day life."
Participant, 'Clown 2: Building Blocks'

HOW IT WORKS

DATES & TIMES:
Mondays:
10.15am - 12noon
20, 27 January
3, 10 & 24 February
and 3, 10, 17, 24 March

VENUE:
The Spark Space
138a Church Road
Redfield
Bristol
BS5 9HH

COST:
Drop-in: £15 per session

BLOCK BOOKING DEALS
4-Sessions: £50 (Save £10)
7-Sessions: £70 (Save £35)
9-Sessions: £80 (Save £55)

BOOKING:
Contact Robyn directly to arrange payment [email protected]

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ABOUT ROBYN

Robyn is a Bristol-based director, teacher and performer. With over 25 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 eight years she has been exploring the meeting point of clowning, activism 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)

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