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  • Upcoming events and workshops...

    Community Clown Walk

    Lead teacher: Kimberley Twiner

    Saturday Nov 8th

    10.00am - 2.30pm

    Brunswick

    Are you wanting or wishing for your clown to get out and about? Well, let's do a clown walk! Invite your clown form back into play. We will pop them out into the real world to see how they see the world. Also the community will get a lovely treat to see a tribe of clowns walking about on a Saturday morning in Brunswick.

    These will be the events:

    10.00am - 11.30am: Costumes on, warm up, refreshing your clown form workshop run by me
    11.30am - 12.30noon: Clown walk in Brunswick, Sydney Road
    12.30pm - 1.15pm: Lunch
    1.15pm - 2.30pm: Reflections and a creative task
    2.30pm: Some people please help me pack up :)

    Prerequisite: You have studied the Somatic Clown Journey with Giovanni Fusetti or myself. You need to have done the course up until the costume component, which will have given you a clear costume to wear. Costumes that were created from my collection are available to be worn again.

    This is a pay what you feel event, fees are starting at $25.00
    I need 10 people signed up in order to go ahead - join the clown club!

    Please share this info with anyone you know who has done the Somatic Clown Journey and that you'd like to go on a walk with!

    Questions?

    Kimberley Twiner: ktwiner@gmail.com

    RESERVATION LINK

    https://www.trybooking.com/DGOHA

  • Gallery

    Neutral Mask, Clown and Bouffon training. Lead teacher: Kimberley Twiner

  • Past Workshops

    Winter 2025

    Silent Comedy: No words, big funnies - by Kimberley Twiner

    Slow down, Play fast: Learn to Improvise with Each Other - Kimberley Twiner

    What's in a Wig: Building a Character Workshop - Kimberley Twiner

    Larval Mask: Playfulness, articulation and naivety (3 days) - Beth Twentyman

    Autumn 2025

    Neutal Mask (5 weeks) - Kimberley Twiner

    Clown (5 weeks) - Kimberley Twiner

    Bouffon: Studies in Mockery, Satire and Grotesque (8 weeks) - by Kimberley Twiner

    Shakespeare's Voice (4 weeks) - by Rob Meldrum

    Summer 2024

    Pedagogic Supervision Group (2 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

    The Greenhouse of Fools (5 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

    The Politics of The Fool (5 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

    Conversations with The Fool (5 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

    Winter 2024

    Bouffon: Play Fuels the Fire (5 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

    A Clown is Born (5 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

    Summer 2023/24

    Australia Dell'Arte (2 weeks) - by Giovanni Fusetti

    Clowns Life (2 weeks) - by Giovanni Fusetti

    Winter 2023

    Melodrama: More is More (3 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

    Character: An Embodied Way In (3 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

    Physical Theatre Conditioning: Invigorating the Poetic Body - by Kimberley Twiner

    Mimodynamique Training: Animal Drives - by Kimberley Twiner

    Autumn 2023

    Physical Theatre Conditioning: Invigorating the Poetic Body - by Kimberley Twiner

    Mimodynamique Training: Animal Drives - by Kimberley Twiner

    Summer 2023

    Mimodynamique of The Colours - by Kimberley Twiner

    Bouffon (5 Days) - by Kimberley Twiner

    Summer 2022

    The 20 Movements - by Giovanni Fusetti

    The Red Nose Journey - by Giovanni Fusetti

    The Neutral Mask in Nature - by Giovanni Fusetti

    The Spirit of Commedia dell'Arte - by Giovanni Fusetti

    Winter 2021

    Abbotsford Convent Pivot Residency Project - by Kimberley Twiner

    Autumn 2021

    Bouffon 2 Day Workshop - by Kimberley Twiner

    Clown Play 2 Day Workshop - by Kimberley Twiner

    Flock Fit in the Park Series - by Kimberley Twiner

    Winter 2020

    Outdoor Physical Theatre Conditioning Series - by Kimberley Twiner

    Summer 2020

    From the Neutral Mask to Red Nose - by Giovanni Fusetti

    The Pedagogy of Bouffon - by Giovanni Fusetti

    Bouffon and the Ecstasy of Mocking - by Giovanni Fusetti

    Spring 2020

    Drag 101: Performing Skills - by Kimberley Twiner

    Character Charge Up - by Kimberley Twiner

  • The Blog

    Thoughts, musings and ruminations.

    What is Bouffon?
    21 de enero de 2025 · Bouffon,Lecoq,Physical Theatre,Mockery
    Bouffon is a satyrical, grotesque physical comedy grounded in mockery. As a formalized style of theatre, Bouffon can be traced to the Lecoq school of mask, mime and movement theatre in Paris. In the 1970s the pedagogic director, Jacques Lecoq, started to explore a core performance dynamic...
    Alison Croggon's Article
    14 de junio de 2024
    As promised here is the article.   HERE  
    Mimo Dynamique Training: Movement Beyond the Self
    18 de mayo de 2023
    The movement doesn’t mean something, it is something. Mimo Dynamique training is a type of theatre training that is grounded in one key principle: observe the world then imitate it. It is a pillar of the Lecoq pedagogy of Mask, Mime and Movement Theatre and can create a really liberating state...

  • Creative Food

    Resources for the eyes and ears that capture something about the incapturable.

    Books

    Copeau: Texts on Theatre by Jacques Copeau

    The Archetypal Artist by Mary Antonia Wood

    A History of the Dance by Curt Sachs

    Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

    The Dance Cure by Dr Peter Lovatt

    Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich

    The Poetic Body (also known as The Moving Body) by Jacques Lecoq

    Women Who Run With The Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes

    The Empty Space by Peter Brook

    Why Is That So Funny? by John Wright

    True and False by David Mamet

    Every Little Movement by Ted Shawn

    Listenings

    Myths of the Family by James Hillman

    The Creative Fire by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes

    The Politics of Feeling by James Hillman

    Pagan Psychology by James Hillman

    Pink Madness by James Hillman

  • Mailing List

    Follow the impulse. Get in touch.

  • About

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    Here's the background...

    Melbourne Physical Theatre School was officially started by Kimberley Twiner in 2019. It is a place for high quality training in the Lecoq lineage, taught by local, national and international maestros. Kimberley's main collaborating teacher is Giovanni Fusetti.

     

    Kimberley is a Melbourne based performer, director and teacher. She is a Fusetti, Bolton and Gaulier trained performer. In 2019 she studied THE PEDAGOGIC JOURNEY: An Advanced Training in Movement Theatre under the tutelage of Giovanni Fusetti. This was a study into teaching the within the Lecoq lineage of mime and movement training.

     

    Kimberley is obsessed with many aspects of theatre training and believes that technical training and play-based training hold hands with each other. Play without technique doesn't work, and technique without play doesn't work. Kimberley seeks to train people in a non-personal way, because theatre trangresses the personal, a performer must go beyond their own private experience. Mask, mime and movement training is her core passions to move towards a dynamic theatre.

     

    Kimberley's expertise is found in devised physical comedy, clown, bouffon and character comedy. Her practice is ensemble powered, devised and deeply collaborative. Her current working ensembles are PO PO MO CO, The Beaks, Fish & Twiner's Bait Shop, The Bouffonery, The Wholesome Hour and Brunswick East Entertainment Festival.

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