Epic Imbalance | Theatrical Clown Workshop

The seminar addresses itself to performers, therapists, educators or any person is interested in exploring new paths of expression and their creative potentials.

🤡Clown journey starts when you let yourself immerse into the Unknown aspects of your personality. When you experience imbalance situations and connect with the untamed Other within yourself who deeply enjoys the chaotic and unpredictable nature of life.

✨Clown is a big hero/in following his/her impulses and eager to find his/her own unique solution for any problem that emerges through his/her poetic journey. He/she is a playful being existing in the HERE and NOW, pregnant to full of surprises for us and for himself/herself. Clown is doing everything with pleasure and a sense of joy!

>>In this workshop we will develop the ability of accepting chaos, failure and the completely unknown as vital elements within our creative process. We will awake our bodies, our playfulness, our awareness, our simplicity and we will free ourselves from fears and judgments through games, movement, improvisations, method of 3 sec and collective singing. It’s a creative process of bringing out our hidden, unlived qualities and creating a playful dialogue with them.The red nose which is the smallest mask in the world, will guide the individual clowns to emerge and we will work with their presence, projection, rhythm and vital relationship with the audience.

About the artist

Gozde ATALAY KOKKORIS is a physical theater facilitator, director and actress born in Turkey and based in Athens. She has been performing since 2000 and graduated from the department of Istanbul University in 2004.

As a clown, she first trained in 2009 at EMCA (Municipality Circus School) in Spain, also engaging actively with other circus techniques. From 2011–2012 she taught in the social circus school for children “Cabuwazi” in Berlin.

As a physical theater performer, she studied with Hernan Gene and Gabriel Chame Buendia at “Chame and Gene Estudios Teatrales" in Madrid and with Thomas Prattki at the London International School of Performing Arts.

She performed at the Ballhaus Ost in Berlin and at the Camden People’s Theatre in London in the show ''No Way Out'' with the company Flight of Escales from 2018–2019. She directed “Queens” at the festival Mujeres Que Cuentan in Santander in 2017, performed "Nasreddin Hodja Tales'' at the 3rd Storytelling Festival of Athens 2016 and “A Quiet Voice” in the International Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2014.

Since 2006, she has been living and working in several countries, where she is performing, directing and teaching in various international projects