Finding clarity and purpose in your work and humour in the human condition.
SHOSHIN is a Japanese word meaning Beginner’s Mind. It invites you to experience a playful, emotionally intelligent, open-minded attitude to your work. By letting go of right and wrong, judgement, and pre-conceptions, and by returning to this open playful state, truthful engagement is readily realised and professional advancements more easily attained.
Further to Jeremy’s SHOSHIN FOR ACTORS workshop earlier this year, SHOSHIN
CLOWN promotes the idea of working with a light-heart, an open mind, and
spontaneous engagement in dramatic and comedic roles. The work will be non-
academic, practical, philosophical, and physically engaging.
This is not a text-basedcourse, but script may sometimes be used. Please bring a learned speech – preferably Shakespeare, if you have one. The course will help you develop, build, and sustain deep knowledge and understanding of what it is to act with greater confidence and integrity - perhaps redefining your definition of acting and the context in which you act. There will also be discourse and Q&A.
This unique and intensive workshop looks to –
• Advance your acting skills and enhance your ability to communicate more freely,
authentically, and appropriately on stage and off.
• Prepare for and commit to auditions and casting with less nervous anxiety and
greater confidence, authenticity, and ease.
• Let go of old habits and pre-conceptions that may be holding you back.
SHOSHIN CLOWN offers you a new set of skills, techniques, and confidence in acting, and invites you to come away from what you think you know. It also introduces the playful, reassuring, sometimes challenging balance of knowing and forgettery, thereby allowing more playful intuitive connections and increasing your chances of personal and professional success.
Please wear loose comfortable clothes you can move around in. Please note video,
audio or other recording of this course is strictly prohibited unless by prior agreement
with Jeremy Stockwell. All content remains the intellectual copyright of Jeremy
Stockwell.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
Bio:
Jeremy is an actor, theatre maker, writer, and teacher.
and extensively all over Europe and Japan. He has taught at most accredited drama schools in the UK, including thirty years at RADA where he also directed Shakespeare and modern work. He is performance coach for the BBC and Netflix and was acting coach on Strictly Come Dancing. Recent acting work includes - Vladimir in Waiting for Godot and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, for Chelthenham Everyman, Ken Campbell in Ken for Terry Johnson at Hammersmith, Spike Milligan in A Sockful of Custard, and philosopher Alan Watts in Out of my Head at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and soon on tour. His book, New Ways and Ancient wisdoms - a modern actor's guide will be out soon.
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