Workshops and Trainings for performers who clown, on stage, in festivals, and in health care settings. His teaching focuses on ‘the funny’, lightness, inner and outer connection, non-verbal expression, human authenticity, awareness, and listening. Since studying Butoh Dance with Hiroko Tamano and Kazuo Ohno, Moshe has pioneered the ButohClown training method.
Workshop Offerings
For Current Offerings (please check calendar)
Inner Clown
Developing the clown from the inner impulse, connected to your sense of humor, delight, mischief and more….This workshop is for clowns who wish to explore their inner clown world, to develop clown from the inside rather than putting it on.
Using your personal sense of humor, your sense of fun, funny and all your senses as a guide, define and map your clown world. Expand this universe through improvisations, short set pieces, solos and duos. A series of opportunities to define, deepen and expand your clowns’ non-verbal vocabulary and emotional expression. Inviting humor and lightness into how the clown feels, developing capacity to create resonance and connection with the audience. Work with different levels of expression, from subtle elements of lightness to expansive exuberance.
Improve your clown’s awareness, authenticity, and your capacity to embody clown.
Based in Richard Pochinko’s (Canadian) clowning method, and physical theater pedagogy, the workshop also integrates a large number of Asian principles and influences – Kyogen, Butoh, Taoist health exercises, Shintaido and Zen.
Requirements: A familiarity with your clown.
“He is an excellent guide for navigating the inner world and discovering emotional and expressive possibilities from sincerity and joy.”
Luisa
Butoh Clown
Butohclown, a practice developed by Moshe, combines aspects of butoh dance with the theatricality and physicality of the clown. Integrating butoh’s ‘being part of the space’ and ‘being danced,’ participants are asked to slow their movement way down to create an in-depth internal connection and an external clarity. The workshop uses butohclown to explore and develop material , to decompose moments to discover the fundamental energies driving the clown and how to play (with) them.
“You create a wonderful space where I felt safe to try out, to play and where it was possible to take risks….. I really like the Butohclown-to slow down, to reduce creates an awareness for the small moments that are so full of secrets…”
“Butohclown is so good for the awareness of/for myself, and the others, and the world around you/me! Thank you very much, I’m so happy with this!”
For Health Care Clown Groups
Moshe is often working with Health Care/Hospital Clown Groups offering 2-5 day trainings. He designs the workshops with the artistic director addressing the clowns’ collective needs and wishes often working with butoh clown and mindfulness to offer renewal, refreshment and expansion of clown world, play, collaboration, lightness, subtlety and resiliency.
Moshe has worked with CliniClowns (Vienna, Upper Austria, Munich, Hanover, Hamburg, Köln, Dortmund,) Röten Nasen International, Röten Nasen, Deutschland, HCIM2018, HaHaHa Akademie, Clown Visite…
“I found the exercises you shared really applicable to our work. We sometimes have an idea that we are ‘present’ but in reality just think that we are. I think any practice that aids us in getting into the right hand brain is vital and frankly delicious! So thanks again! ”
Suzie F. Artistic Director. Hearts&Minds
Some of the Places Moshe has taught:
Clown/Circus Schools:
TUT schule, Ateneu No Barris, Ravensburg Clown Sommerakademie, SF Clown Conservatory, Wise Fool NM, Clown Encuentro.
Spiritual/Zen Centers
Zen Center Los Angeles, San Francisco Zen Center, St Virgil, Omega Institute, Le Forum (Paris FR), Tassajara, Village Zendo, ZLMC, Buddhistisches Zentrum Hamburg, Sivananda Yoga Retreat Bahamas…
HealthCare Clown Groups:
CliniClowns Austria, Röten Nasen Deutschland, KlinikClowns München, ClownVisite EV, HaHaHa Akademie, Dream Doctors Conference, Emergency Smile, HCIM2018, KlinikClowns Nürnberg…
Institutions:
Carlton College, World Philanthropy Forum, Alte Poste Kulturforum, Warsaw Academy of Drama, Cal Institute for the Arts, Walschule Flensburg, Children’s Day School SF, Nell-Breuning-Haus…
Organizations:
Paypal, Dolby, Google Arts, Center for Council, Medecins du Monde, Procurador de los Derechos Humanos…
Moshe’s Teachers
40 years of performing
Clown : Richard Pochinko and Ctibor Turba
Movement Theater: Sigfrido Aguilar, Antwerpen Mime School, Daniel Stein Mime School
Physical Theater: Phillipe Gaulier, Monica Pagneux
Voice: Roy Hart Theater (Rossignol, Ahkmatova, Saul, Vincente)
Kyogen: Kaoru Matsumoto, Juro Zenchku
Butoh Dance: Kazuo Ohno, Hiroko Tamano, Yoshito Ohno
Zen: Roshi Bernie Glassman, Roshi WEndy Egyoku Nakao, Roshi Michel Engu Dobbs.
Calendar
Upcoming training and workshops
Currently
Teaching
Online
Master Class. Clown X
April 8th, 2023 9:30am-noon
This class is part of the ClownX series organized by the Way of the Clown, a private facebook group. For more info and to register, please click through….
Workshop @ Re-imagining Education Conference
Levity Pause: A mindful pathway to embody your authentic fun and funny
@ Re-imagining Education Conference Online
Saturday April 29th 11am-noon (PST)
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Das Lächeln, das von innen kommt
Das Lächeln, das von innen kommt
Clown + Zen. 12-14 Mai, 2023
Buddhistisches Stadt-Zentrum Hamburg. unterrichtet mit Zen Meister Heinz-Jürgen Metzger
In diesem Workshop begegnen Heiterkeit und Leichtigkeit des Clowns der Stille und Konzentration der Meditation. In beiden Elementen des Workshops geht es darum, Fixierungen zu lösen, offener für sich und andere zu werden, die Wirklichkeit umfassender zu sehen und sie so lebendiger, mitfühlender und weiser zu gestalten. Klicken die ‘Read More’ für mehr Informationen
Levity and Lightfulness Workshop
If your peri-pandemic world seems full of stress, worries, and existential angst, switch gears, and investigate your world of delight. If you are wishing for authentic levity, and meaningful pathways beyond the mundane, come explore a series of practices that can bring lightness and humor into everyday activity.