YOUTH & SOCIAL CIRCUS PROJECTS

​Circus Central BTEC Diploma in Circus 2016 -18
​I have been teaching on the newly developed professional training programmes for Circus Central. I have taught modules on Physical Theatre, Site Specific work and Making performance as well as directing shows with students in 2016 & 2017
La Bonche Family Circus 2013
Research project with Five Rings Youth Circus exploring the circus heritage of the North East of England. The project culminated in a show in which I devised an act with young people, and a newspaper and video I created to document the journey. 
​Clowning Around Ghent 2015   
​10-day Clown Training Project and youth exchange in Belgium. I taught workshops in Clown to young people from Italy, Belgium, Scotland, Germany, Estonia & Sweden and directed them in outdoor performances for the Ghent Arts Festival
​Swallows Foundation Remix Project 2013
​Teaching Social Circus to over 30 'change makers' from across South Africa, to introduce them to circus skills and to collectively work towards the National Arts Festival Parade in Grahamstown
Fairground of Fishy Feats 2014 a Five Ring Youth Circus circus show commissioned by Juice Festival, based on the book, ‘The Boy who Swam with Piranhas’. I worked as a movement director for the show and created animations based on the work of a young artist to accompany the show. 
Circonnection & ENCI 2012-16
I was involved in documenting  these two European Partnership Circus and Street Arts Training programmes. This involved developing the attending Europe-wide trainings to document the projects including creation of websites, writing blogs and taking & collating photos.
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.