Clown and the Physical Impulse

Fuel for your artistic evolution

This Winter Nights, we’re delivering 10 professional development workshops designed to spark creativity and build industry skills. From performance to producing and marketing to design, these sessions are here to empower, inspire, and strengthen our arts community. 

Clowning is intrinsically linked to an actors awareness of their physicality.

A clowns wealth of expression manifests in their ability to hold the line in being connected to themselves and to the audience in what could be described as a dynamic movement meditation. In order to deliver to the audience “what they don’t expect to expect” and to truly surprise ourselves requires playful deep listening and a mischievous intuition. In this workshop participants will explore movement practices coupled with clown concepts and exercises in order to experience an awareness that allows the actor to step into the moments as they present themselves with that subversive clowns eye view.  

The workshop is open to people of all levels of experience with clown and movement. 

About Facillitator

Hardey McMurrick is a performer with over 20 years experience in dance, theatre, circus, street performance, comedy and live music. Hardey has trained in the Le Coq theatre method, movement improvisation, corporeal mime, circus, and clown and has performed through out Australia and overseas in theatres, festivals, cabarets and hospitals. Hardey has worked almost exclusively as an independent artist and produced one main stage clown theatre production for children with funding from the WA Dept Culture and the Arts and taken a number of smaller solo shows across Australia and to Europe.