Perhaps, perhaps, quizás...
dentro del Clown Encuentro 2011.
La cita es el Viernes 4 de Noviembre en el Teatro Varasanta a las 20 hrs.
para mayores informes,
www.clownencuentro.com
nos vamos a Colombia!
Clown Me In en Pachuca, Hidalgo!
Gracias a todos los clowns de Pachuca por subirse al tren, por soñar y por celebrar la locura. Un agradecimiento muy especial a mis anfitriones Paola Nolasco y Carlos Mentado López, sin su ayuda nada se hubiera logrado. Esperamos con ansias nuestro regreso a Pachuca. Gracias!!!
a Clown Me In...PUSH
Last week I found a website called www.thxthxthx.com , where Leah Dieterich offers longhand shows of appreciation for situations one normally doesn’t note…
Some of her notes made me laugh so hard… and I was so curious, I couldn’t stop reading her… (thanking the fridge, the muscle, the blue gas stove flame, the booze, the tatoo etc…)
Only then I realized….that Clown Me In ( Gaby and myself) and before even thinking about thanking random things in life…we never thanked all the “behind the scene” friends who have been helping us since we have started!
So here you go,
Christian Irles… the poor guy who had to bare our stupidity when making the blog
Pascale Chehade whom I just sent a clown me in proposal paper and asked her to make it look better… she not only did that, but also the logo, the designs, some of the posters and the completion certificate.
Valentina Munoz who is offering us great costumes
Gabriela Frias who offered all her miles to Gaby
Farah Kassem who’s taking the beautiful pictures and videos ( the bad ones are taken by us)
Cynthia Choucair who’s always present
Elie Abou jawdeh the quickest poster design
Wissam Chidiak one poster and technical godaddy and google mail adjustments
Ailin Conant who spent one month with us creating in Mexico
William Choukeir for a specific full of ideas e-mail he sent me
David Habchy who has this great talent in coming up with whatever I need… whenever I want
The Indian embassy who gave Gaby a visa in no time
The Mexican embassy who gave me a visa in 1 day (as I forgot to make one before leaving)
The brick theatre in NY, Berenice Gonzales who supported Gaby a lot
all the organizations and theatre companies we worked with....
And finally our families (moms, dads, sisters, brothers ) who just love and embrace our craziness
All our friends who were and still are such a great support
We thank you for believing in us and making our lives easier …
did i forget anyone???? ooooooops
thought of the day
I have never quite understood why I fell in love with
It all started when I got slapped on the face by my teacher Giovanni Fusetti in London… and after an interesting journey I have had since I was a kid in Lebanon… Giovanni (even though he didn’t really slap me as slapping with his hand!) simply and gently opened a whole world to me … the Clown world, in a slap like “wake up you idiot girl”!
Was a tough journey to find this Flower clown and harder to accept it! But something touched me deeply… deep deep inside and made me not want to do anything but share this journey with other people. Why?
Because my way of seeing things changed drastically… because suddenly all made complete sense to me!
I realized how much I was taking myself so seriously, how much I was sucking myself into the stress of life and how stupidly I was refusing my stupidity instead of embracing it! Today, I look around me, and I feel sorry for the years I spent worrying about minimal materialistic matters! Does it really matter if I get the best grades at school when I forget everything some years later? Does it really matter if I win prizes when I have to be competing, crying and hating the rivals? Does it really matter if I make shit loads of money when I can spend them in a day? Does it really matter if I am better than you? And I can go on forever... Well maybe it does, and it surely did… but not anymore.
I am so grateful that now I can see the positive side of each person, I acknowledge the fact that everyone has something special, I can appreciate my niece’s and nephew’s freedom, I can freely cry when I get a kiss from the untouchables in India, I can be deeply touched when I see my loved ones laughing, I can shiver when I know that a war is on its way and scream loudly when people kill each other because they fear the unknown… Since that slap, I stopped fearing the unknown, I accepted my weaknesses, I learned how to touch other people gently, I have become more humane… and all I care about now is to share this experience because thankfully I still have this silly hope that one day humans will actually become more humane and that love exists if we are open to receive it! Clown is humanity, is freedom, is playfulness… Clown is the real life… offered to us on a transparent platter… let’s all share this platter… and devour it with no masks on!
I thank each and every person for reminding me that I am a simple weak human being who can never be strong without him or her!
Sabine Choucair
Sabine Choucair
Siguiente parada/next stop
El 3º Encuentro Internacional de Clown se realizará del 30 de Octubre al 05 de Noviembre del 2011 en la ciudad de Bogotá. Este evento convoca al público en general a participar en una serie de talleres, conferencias, espectáculos, intervenciones públicas entre otros.
Este año el tema del Clown Encuentro será “El Clown y la Transformación”.
“Perhaps, perhaps, quizás...” de Gabriela Muñoz
MEXICO
"Perhaps, perhaps, quizás..." es una obra de clown que juega con la idea de la espera e ilusión por encontrar al hombre “perfecto”y la soledad a la que esta conlleva cuando uno mismo es tan imperfecto. En una época en donde la presión del tiempo y la falta de esperanza en uno mismos son inminentes, nuestra protagonista Greta ensaya una vez a la semana el gran día, el día de la boda. Tendrá suerte esta noche? Quizás, quizás, quizás...
Perhaps, perhaps.. se presentó en el NY Clown Theatre Festival 2010 recibiendo excelentes críticas. En México en la carpa de Cirko de Mente y la Universidad de la Comunicación. Se presentará en Suecia dentro del Festival STOFF2011.
WEB: http://perhapsperhapsclown.blogspot.com/
TALLER:
Dictado por: Gabriela Muñoz de México
Flower- @TedxBeirut
Flower was strictly objecting on the wedding today at TedxBeirut...
and actually Flower doesn't know why they called it a wedding...
and Sabine's clown Flower.... objected... as obviously...
TedxBeirut would be only HERS :)
Ok...She had to kiss some guys from time to time ( out of depression ) and to look for the bride to be, among the girls!!!!!!
Clowning with the employees of IECD - Lebanon
Below are some pictures from a Clown Me In workshop held with the employees of IECD
( Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement - Délégation Proche Orient) in lebanon
As a start, it was the first time i would play with people in French...
was so worried to the point where i had to look for all the technical words and study them before the group got to the workshop space :) ...
well it wasn't as dramatic as i am picturing it here.
It was quite interesting to get the group in the game, after a long day of work!!! but once there... the fun began!
The only problem was the couches i have...as they were so comfortable...and inviting people constantly to take a nap
even Louise's baby looked so comfortable!!!!
i will leave you with the pictures now so you can imagine the rest of the story...
Merci les IECD :)
Mosaik School - South of Lebanon
Salhieh – Saida – South of Lebanon…
A school for children with special need… newly built, the smell of paint is still filling the place, endless empty rooms prepared nicely and neatly and waiting for the kids to come on the 13th of October….
So much echo that one only needs to whisper in order for the whole school to vibrate…
Now add to that, 30 educators, 31 laughter per second and imagine how it was like when spending 2 days there, clowning around!
I do not need to meet the kids or see the educators working with them to know that the atmosphere is relaxed, the love is out there and everybody enjoys it…. it’s a marvelous needed school in Lebanon, I would even say … one of a kind !!!!!
with open, creative, loving team, that I had the chance to clown with.
Pictures say it all…
so enjoy…
hopefully as much as we enjoyed!
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