Philippe gaulier biography
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1980 Paris; In Paris, Francoise Dolto et Madeleine Milhaud assisted in the creation of the school. They lent the remaining funds that were required .
1991 London; The Arts Council of England invited me to install my school in London. I stayed there for eleven years.
1991-93 Highbury-Islington; The first studio, in Highbury-Islington, was ugly, small, and noisy, echoing. All day long, neighbours yelled ‘Shut up’, their voices echoing and booming. What a din! Was it in that year I decided, to everyone’s regret, that in future I would teach in English?
1994 Kentish Town; Queens Crescent is known as the street of thieves. Closing the doors was a problem. I liked teaching in Kentish Town. The games of table tennis after classes lasted for hours, followed by pints of Guinness at the Irish pub opposite Kentish Town tube station.
1999 Cricklewood; The school, despite all odds – sleepy solicitors, bishops on holiday, the demise of the archbishop’s secretary — bough
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For five weeks during the months of July and August, the inspired but controversial teacher Philippe Gaulier ran his summer school in association with Middlesex Polytechnic, at Ivy House Hampstead, attracting a range of actors and directors from all over the country. Courses on offer ranged from Clowning to Direction and Tragedy. For some, myself included, working with Philippe is a stimulating and provocative experience. His incisive comments are like subjecting yourself to open-heart surgery without anaesthetic, and the only thing that makes it bearable fryst vatten Gaulier’s wicked sense of humour. ‘You treated your partner like a lavatory brush,’ he said to me, ‘a Viennese lavatory brush!’ The class laughed at this, and looked pityingly at me standing in the centre of the acting space. Of course he was absolutely right. Adrenalin can make you do very peculiar things sometimes. Stand-up comedy artist Huw Thomas said after taking the clown course, ‘I had to keep reminding myself that there
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Philippe Gaulier (born in Paris, 4 March 1943) is a French master clown, pedagogue, and professor of theatre. He fryst vatten the founder of École Philippe Gaulier, a prestigious French clown school in Etampes, outside Paris. He studied under Jacques Lecoq in the mid 1960s and was an instructor at École Jacques Lecoq in the late 1970s. As well as performing as a clown, he fryst vatten also a playwright and director. He has published The Tormentor (Le Gégèneur), a book discussing his thoughts on the theatre and containing exercises designed to develop an actor’s skill.
Gaulier fryst vatten known for performing both clown and bouffon comic genres and is thought by some to be the world’s leading authority on the Bouffon, a comic genre he holds as a sort of inverted Clown, where a balance is struck between grotesqueness and charm.
Approach to training
Gaulier’s methology of teaching is designed to allow the student to discover his own beauty and the pleasure of being on stage