Monsieur Marcel and Monsieur Flop: failure in clown training at Ecole Philippe Gaulier
| Autor: | Lucy Amsden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Private school Reflective practice media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Invocation Sincerity 050109 social psychology 06 humanities and the arts Art Education Visual arts Laughter Aesthetics 060402 drama & theater ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Performing arts Accident (philosophy) 0604 arts media_common Reputation |
| Zdroj: | Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 8:129-142 |
| ISSN: | 1944-3919 1944-3927 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19443927.2017.1316304 |
| Popis: | The Ecole Philippe Gaulier is a private school for performers, with an international reputation for teaching clown. Gaulier offers a formal training process that emphasises the need for on-going reflective practice. In this classroom students begin to generate clown material, while learning the skills of interaction required to make audiences laugh. This article explores a pedagogical device used in Gaulier’s classroom and writing: two friends of clowns named ‘Monsieur Flop’ and ‘Monsieur Marcel’. M. Marcel is (mistakenly) regarded as an expert performer, who gives out what Gaulier refers to as ‘stupid ideas’. M. Flop is an accident magnet, and his appearance signifies that things are not going well. The invocation of these two friends of clowns creates a sense of playful, complicit distance which encapsulates Gaulier’s ambiguous relationship with sincerity. These characters provide a framework for discussing the different registers of ‘failure’ in clown performance. The students are taught to listen to M... |
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