Professional physical performer training and theatre-making skills led by a different practitioner each month.

About the teacher

Our October skills residency is led by movement director Mim King.

Mim is an artist/choreographer/dancer/live artist/performer/movement director born in London, living in Brighton, working internationally. She is also currently head of Movement at Academy of Creative Training, Brighton.

Her professional performance career commenced in 1984. Moving from circus and clowning, to visual theatre through to dance, and to live art and film, her most significant training was with Anton Adasinsky and his performance company DEREVO at their former studio in Leningrad, Russia in 1990.

Mim's work is influenced by Butoh dance. Her main Butoh teacher was Masaki Iwana. Mim has been creating her own unique performances since 1992, taking her to dance and live art festivals and artist-in-residences around the World. She has researched, lectured and presented work in many countries including France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Iceland, USA, South Korea, China, New Zealand and Australia. Her award winning dance film work has been shown at Lincoln Centre/ New York, Pompidou Centre/Paris, ICA/London, the Venice Biennial and at the Sydney Opera House.

For many years Miriam contributed reviews and articles on Physical Theatre for Total Theatre Magazine. She was a founder member of Movement 12 and also BUTOH Brighton. For a decade, regularly gave lectures, led tours and created workshops on art for The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Tate Modern and Tate Britain.

About the Residencies

Each month, a different Brighton Clown School practitioner offers short classes of their own teaching. The course centres the artist-practitioner and their own approach to making physical comedy and physical theatre, rather than a specific practice, technique or genre.

This course content could include:

Grotowski warm-up

Ideokinesis centering technique

Laban 8 Effort Actions

Lecoq 7 States of Tension

Mime

Animal

Elements

plus working with ideas of 'presence', and creating atmosphere.

Course structure

Students will get the most by attending all classes. However if you are unable to make any specific classes please email us so that we can plan accordingly.

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