Philippe Gaulier
Philippe Gaulier (born in Paris, 4 March 1943) is a French master clown, pedagogue, and professor of theatre. He is the founder of École Philippe Gaulier, a prestigious French theatre school in Étampes, outside Paris. He studied under Jacques Lecoq in the mid-1960s and was an instructor at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in the late 1970s. As well as performing as a clown, he is 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 is 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.
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Gaulier is 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.
This section uses Creative Commons Licensed excerpt(s) from Wikipedia.
RESOURCES:
BOOKS:
Gaulier, P.( ) The Tormentor (Le Gégèneur),
WEBSITES:
The Bouffon: Interview
The International: The fine art of serious clowning.
The Telegraph: From the sublime to the ridiculous
The Guardian: 'Once you can handle the insults, you begin': inside Philippe Gaulier's clown school
THESIS- PHILIPPE GAULIER’S CONTRIBUTION TO CLOWN THEATRE; TRACES AND MANIFESTATIONS by LUCY AMSDEN
Murray, Simon (2013) Embracing lightness: dispositions,corporealities and metaphors in contemporary theatre and performance. Contemporary Theatre Review, 23 (2). pp. 206-219. ISSN 1048-6801
A paidic aesthetic: an analysis of games in the ludic pedagogy of Philippe Gaulier Lynne Kendrick
BOOKS:
Gaulier, P.( ) The Tormentor (Le Gégèneur),
WEBSITES:
The Bouffon: Interview
The International: The fine art of serious clowning.
The Telegraph: From the sublime to the ridiculous
The Guardian: 'Once you can handle the insults, you begin': inside Philippe Gaulier's clown school
THESIS- PHILIPPE GAULIER’S CONTRIBUTION TO CLOWN THEATRE; TRACES AND MANIFESTATIONS by LUCY AMSDEN
Murray, Simon (2013) Embracing lightness: dispositions,corporealities and metaphors in contemporary theatre and performance. Contemporary Theatre Review, 23 (2). pp. 206-219. ISSN 1048-6801
A paidic aesthetic: an analysis of games in the ludic pedagogy of Philippe Gaulier Lynne Kendrick