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2019 à 2021 : formation pour le parascolaire, ateliers de yoga du rire, sinon rire au foyer pendant la COVID.

Description of the Karaclown training
(text of the interview on World Radio Geneva 25.2.00) :

Root of the Sacred Clown style

The Karaclown association gives clown courses self-development oriented. Playing with the variety of feelings, which are inner self ... daring to laugh at our awkwardness ... exteriorising our energy ... rediscovering with simplicity the objects and the others.
Pirouette is responsable for the training at the Karaclown association. His style of clowning is the Sacred Clown which was launched by the clown Lex Van Someren (Germany) approximately ten years ago (1990). Lex having these last years rather diverged towards the acrobatics style, a former pupil of Lex represents today «Sacred Clown»: Didier Danthois who teaches in London. From 1995 to 1997, Pirouette attended few training periods at Didier Danthois School. Pirouette performs from time to time in Geneva around the Lake side of Léman, when the temperature is pleasant there. He also gives each Tuesday evening clown courses in Geneva. This style to awake our hidden clown in us is a good preparation to further style of clowning as done in Hospitals, theaters or streets and parks ... or just to open ours eyes to innocence and wonder, and to discover a treasure in a grain of sand (as says the clown Didier). The Sacred Clown style: release your clown ! All the basic concepts are in the gesture and the face expression performed as if we were in a comfortable rocking chair (in each lesson we spend half an hour in relaxing technique, as Tai-chi and autogene training). The aim is not to make people laugh but to express our different kinds of feeling through play. To make people laugh comes after this step. At a basic level, we practice mime, dance, spontaneous talk and voicing, with no judgement, it is a self oriented exploration and a celebration of simplicity. An invitation to be yourself in the moment, sometimes shy, sometimes full of joy.

Topics

Four essential topics are constantly trained in each lesson:

The creation of inner comfort :Relaxation is a gateway to approach our inner world in order to juggle with sadness and joy, bringing out the unexpected. Enormous joy and creativity are released through relaxation.

The fluidity of breathing : A locked or short breathing keeps our thoughts in a loop process. A continuous and fluid breathing is the key for a transformative mind process; our thoughts move towards others areas in a creative way.

The stability of the body on the ground (grounding): Improving the stability of our body on the ground and feeling the contact between feet and floor, help us to move in slow motion or to practice freezing posture. A body well centered on its feet, and feet well connected on the floor, give the sensation that our body is the centre of our life. Moreover, this practice helps to be in the present moment (it looks strange, but it works).

Sharing with others: This style of clowning does not focus on showing a performance or acting a programmed story. It is more about sharing our own story with the others, through mime and spontaneous expressions of the face. Playing in team, listening inside and outside, being ourselves with the others that is a main point in each lessons.