Clown & Mime
One-day workshop with Katie Tranter

A day of journeying from the expressive, precise language of mime to the anarchic playfulness of the clown.

Join award-winning actor, musician, puppeteer, clown and magician, Katie Tranter for a deep and supportive dive into the languages of mime and clown.

Explore how these worlds can merge to enhance our performance skills, creating playful, precise and joyful work with a true awareness of the what the audience wants and needs from us.  

The workshop covers a broad range of materials and techniques to help you hone your expressive movement and clowning skills including:

• Basic principles: Exercises from the work of Lecoq, Marceau, Suzuki & Viewpoints
• Exploration of: Breath, Fixed Point, Impulse, Flow & Sensory work and the Elements
• Devising tasks with individual feedback

Please wear comfortable clothes, bring a bottle of water and be ready to be physically active.

Who's this for?

It is for clowns, improvisers, circus artists, physical performers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, street performers and the curious. All exercises will be tailored to the participants' needs and everyone will have to opportunity to work both individually and in groups with allocated time for reflection and feedback.

Previous Participant Feedback

★'It's really spurred me on to keep up my creativity and put myself out there as a soloist... thank you for encouraging me to be myself.'
★'Playful, intense, eye-opening.'
★ 'Joyous, free flowing, liberating'
★'Brilliantly facilitated' Rachael Walsh, Artistic Director, GirlBeatsWorld.

How it works

Date & time:
Sunday 18 May
10am - 5pm

Venue:
The Spark Space
138a Church Road
Redfield
Bristol
BS5 9HH

Investment:
£100 - Supporter/ High earner
£90 - Full Price
£80 - Concession (low/no income, student)
EARLYBIRD DEAL: get £10 off if you pay before 14 April

If you’re not sure if your level of experience would support you to join this workshop, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to help identify if the workshop is right for you.

book your place

About the facilitator

Katie Tranter is an award-winning actor, musician, puppeteer, clown andmagician. Her recent credits include Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Paramount), Doctor Who (BBC) and Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage). 

She has taught clown and mime for Funny Women South West, Circus Central, Play Festival and Exeter University. Her movement direction credits include projects for Paramount, GirlBeatsWorld and Northumberland Theatre Company.

Katie trained at Exeter University, National Youth Theatre and Escuela Nouveau Colombier specialising in mime.  She has also trained with Philippe Gaulier, Phillip Zarrilli, Denise Perdikidis (Tantztheater Wuppertal), Avner Eisenberg, John Wright, Alex Coehlo, Nola Rae, Peta Lily, Jose Piris, Arturo Bernal and Diana Bernedo.

PRESS ABOUT KATIE
'jaw-droppingly funny'
Everything Theatre 
'good fun'
The Guardian 
'regularly stole the show...eminently watchable and very, very funny'
London Theatre 1 
‘a genius for comedy, and an ability to really get the audience on her side’
Spy in the Stalls 
'really fun!'
Jim Carrey

Katie is twice an OFFIE award finalist for her performances in Tall Stories’ The Canterville Ghost and Iris Theatre’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She is co-creator of dark clown comedy Canary winning the Audience’s Choice Award at Prague Fringe Festival in 2019. Her solo show The Great Divinator: Touched by the Spirits has been nominated for Best Variety Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2025 and heads to Edinburgh Fringe this summer in association with The Project People.
https://www.katietranter.com/

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