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About the Workshop:

Join us for a Deaf-designed introduction to physical theatre and clowning. Over five days, participants will explore mask work, movement, and expressive storytelling in a fully accessible creative space.

Accessibility:

• ASL interpreter

• LSQ interpreter if requested

What You’ll Learn:

• Corporeal Mime & Movement

• De’VIA & Visual Storytelling

• Mask & Character Creation

• Clown and Bouffon Play

Meet the facilitator

Dean Bareham, Facilitator & Artistic Director, Green Fools Theatre
Dean is the artistic director and co-founder of Green Fools Theatre in Calgary. He began his studies at the Alberta College of Art & Design and then attended the Dell’ Arte School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California. For the last twenty-eight years, Dean has been delighting audiences across the globe with his buffoonery and stilt characters; his alter ego, Gustavo the Impossibilist is infamous worldwide. Dean has performed and taught workshops all across Canada, Europe, South America, Macedonia, New Zealand, Lesotho, Japan, and the USA. He has performed with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony in Ottawa and with Cirque du Soleil at the Luminato Festival in Toronto.