18th of July 12am to 6pm
A Ship of Fools
A rare opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed Dance Theatre artist following the success of a ship of fools at the Brighton fringe Yael Karavan is offering a 2 day intensive workshop on the this theme.
- Are you curious to discover who are the fools who inhabit you?
- What is their story, existence, life to tell?
The key concept of this work is that we each have a ship of fools within us. These fools represent the different traits that shape our personality. Each one of them, at a time, leads the boat: the lover, the thinker, the joker... This is a theme that I have been exploring through my dance research for many years, constantly asking 'who is dancing?' We have so many characters within us that try to express themselves. I have thus developed methods of finding these 'traits' through the use of character-based work, searching to enable these various fools within us to dance their stories, like a journey within our own archetypes.
...and one day looking inside I saw in that space between the belly and the chest a little ship from which my inner fools were leading my life....
Venue : Coachwerks, 19 Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton BN17HB
£60 full price
£55 (conc.) unemployed and students (with cards)
£50 special price for Theatre Arts students (with cards)
Booking (please note places are limited)
To book a place and/or for more info please contact Yael e.karavan{at}gmail.com
About Yael Karavan
Performer and Director Yael Karavan was born in Israel and grew up in Florence, Paris and London. At the age of 13 she began an acting career in the National Theatre, television and films. In 1995 she began travelling through Europe, N.Y, Brazil and Japan searching to develop a contemporary physical language of expression bridging between east and west, dance and acting. Yael has studied with master-teachers and performers from all over the world including: Anton Adassinski and Tanya Khabarova from Russian theatre DEREVO, Philippe Gaulier, Philippe Genty, Monica Pagnieux, Jerzy Winnicki from the Grotowski Centre, Nigel Charnock from DV8, Sue Morrison (North American traditional Clown), Ricardo Puccetti from ‘Lume Teatro- Brazil and Butoh masters Kazuo Ohno, Tadashi Endo, Carlotta Ikeda, Yumiko Yoshioka, Akiko Motofuji and more. She has collaborated amongst others with Ephia from Djalma primordial science, Linda Remahl, Fran Barbe and Marie Gabriel Rotie. Her work is often described as visual poetry, Drawing on elements of Butoh, dance, mime, clown, physical and visual theatre. She explores the themes of memory, ‘presence’, metamorphoses, rhythm, intention, imagery and counterpoint as well as how to relate creatively to material, objects and space whilst constantly balancing on the fine line between the tragic and the comic.
She has created and performed 5 solo shows, touring world wide, and in 2006 was awarded the TEATRONETO prize for best performance with her solo The Way Home directed by Naomi Silman (Lume teatro- Brazil). She has been, amongst others, member of Derevo physical theatre company, Mamu Dance Theatre of Tadashi Endo, Ten-Pen Chi of Yumiko Yoshioka and Adapt-Theatre Picture Collision as well as collaborating with various artists, actors and Dancers internationally.
In 2010 she has created The Karavan Ensemble, an International Dance/ Physical theatre company based in Brighton with whom she has created A Ship of Fools for the Brighton Fringe.