COME AND PLAY
With 6 years of experience teaching workshops on clown and playfulness, Izzy now offers a range of workshops, from 1 day to weekends, from 6 week series to residentials. She has experience blending her performance experience with her psychological work, and has facilitated community workshops around women’s empowerment using such concepts as freedom, resilience and vulnerability.
Workshops Offered
SILLY BITCH - feminist 3-hour introduction to clown + playfulness for women (trans + non-binary inclusive)
PLAY MY WAY - 3-hour introduction to clown + playfulness for all.
BEAUTIFUL FOOLS - clown + playfulness 6-week workshop series, to delve deeper (Levels 1 + 2)
FREEDOM PLAY - free/donation-based anti-capitalist 3-hour clown + playfulness community workshop series
COMING SOON….
BLISSFUL SHADOWS - a workshop on bouffon + satirical Play
PLAY MY WAY// WEEKENDER - clown + playfulness weekend workshop, to delve deeper
Please see below for upcoming events.
If you would like to organise a bespoke workshop for a specific group, or would like to invite Izzy to teach in your community/town/school/festival, please contact Izzy directly.
“I benefited from the relaxed safe space where I could be myself and feel free. The teaching was supportive and nurturing. The combination of teaching, experience and the people I met there has, I think, allowed me to feel a greater sense of freedom and possibility.”
- Workshop Participant (BEAUTIFUL FOOLS)
The SILLY BITCH Project
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN presents The SILLY BITCH Project at STEREO, Glasgow.
THE WORKSHOP
The SILLY BITCH project is a series of inclusive, accessibly-priced workshops that centre the experience of women (trans + non-binary inclusive)*, taught by Izzy Stott.
Drawing technique from contemporary clowning, bouffon and satirical play, this 3-hour workshop provides a safe and nurturing space for participants to explore and discover their ridiculousness, away from the often male-dominated world of comedy. Through intuitive playful practice that explores the joys of failure and the beauty of vulnerability, we can can begin to shed the societal pressure of perfection and learn to revel in our own unique silliness.
Suitable for all experience levels, this workshop involves a series of games and exercises designed to help you find freedom. This can compliment other performance practices, from classic acting to improv, drag and burlesque, as well as filter into your daily lives.
12-3pm Sunday 10th May, STEREO
(22 Renfield Ln, Glasgow G2 5AR)
*We use the term inclusively and do not police or assume gender identity / presentation.
ABOUT IZZY STOTT
Izzy is a multidisciplinary artist, performer and workshop facilitator based in Glasgow, focusing on contemporary performance, bouffon, drag and clown. She trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and believes that being playful and free whilst creating is the only way to fully release the body and mind's potential to eternally question, react, move, and hopefully, move others. Izzy's socially engaged arts practice focuses on empowerment and interactive performance. She runs SOMEWHERE BETWEEN - a femme/queer performance production company which aims to produce, create and facilitate new innovative and uniquely styled work, as well as teach, host workshops and work with marginalised groups in society, making theatre accessible to all. Izzy is also co-creator of SHIITAKE NIGHTS, Glasgow Southside’s SELL-OUT absurd cabaret. Her workshops centre clowning and playful practice through a psychological lens, exploring vulnerability, failure, self-acceptance and resilience. She has created and performed original work and hosted cabarets at Edinburgh, Brighton and Prague Fringe Festivals and Queer Theory as well as at Eden and Kelburn festivals. (You may have seen her as GÜNTER or as a banana that eats bananas.)
ABOUT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN is a feminist and queer creative production company based in Glasgow, working with new, innovative theatre and absurd comedy. We create, produce, facilitate, host and teach. We believe in theatre for all, and specialise in working with marginalised groups in society, helping the wider community to communicate and share. We like work that is ridiculous, bold, beautiful, honest, with a strong sense of personality.
“I benefited from the relaxed safe space where I could be myself and feel free. The teaching was supportive and nurturing. The combination of teaching, experience and the people I met there has, I think, allowed me to feel a greater sense of freedom and possibility.”
- Workshop Participant (BEAUTIFUL FOOLS)
EARLYBIRD on sale until 22nd April! (£25!)
Priced on a sliding scale, so please choose the ticket that feels most comfortable for you. If money is a barrier to your attendance, please email me. I would like this workshop to be as accessible as possible.
* Limited availibility, sign up ASAP to secure place.
* Purchase of this ticket includes access to the full workshop. We cannot offer refunds on your purchase.
* Unfortunately the venue is not wheelchair accessible this time. Workshops taught at our studio are fully accessible. Please contact izzystott@googlemail.com for any questions about access.
Location
Stereo, 22 Renfield Ln, Glasgow G2 5AR
HIT & MISS - a clown, play and movement workshop
HIT + MISS - a weekend workshop exploring movement, clown and play
with Izzy Stott and Oliver Fife-Nilsson
There is beauty in success! And there is beauty in Failure! How can we find freedom whilst discovering the joys of being in the midst of both? Bringing together the technique of Lecoq and the spirit of Gaulier, this weekend workshop will allow participants to explore movement as a starting point for play and clown practice.
The state of the clown is fully embodied and present, with no separation between body and mind. The word Naive derives from the latin word Nativus, newly born, and to be native to one's body. Through movement, play and clowning, we hope to re-discover our childlike mind and body, a state that is free, non-critical and explorative, and discover ways to merge this with our experienced adult self.
The workshop will be structured around movement, games and exercises, designed to free you up and allow for play. Taking inspiration from the teachings of Lecoq, the movement section serves to liberate the body, providing a physical tool box to use during clown practice. Games and exercises will facilitate play, and focus on vulnerability, impulse, intuition, presence and the joy of failure. Fusing together techniques from mime, mask, clown and physical comedy, this workshop will provide you with a safe and enjoyable space to delve deeper into playful practice and connect with yourselves, each other and the audience.
Suitable for anyone who is interested in playful self-discovery, from beginners or those with more experience, from actors and performers to comedians, burlesque performers and anything in between.
About the teachers -
Oliver Fife-Nilsson is a theatre-maker, clown and mime, director and facilitator. He studied at the International School of Theatre Jacques Lecoq (France). Oliver has toured across the world for nearly a decade and won multiple awards with solo-shows and his co-created theatre shows, with groups such as The Latebloomers, Jon and Ollie and Chicos Fritos. Oliver worked as a weekly play leader for children in a refugee camp in Sweden. He has frequently taught workshops at festivals while touring, and taught drama for youth with Autism for National Autistic Society. He is currently lecturing on movement and physical theatre at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS).
Izzy is a multidisciplinary artist, performer and workshop facilitator based in Glasgow, focusing on contemporary performance, bouffon and clown. She trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and believes that being playful and free whilst creating is the only way to fully release the body and mind's potential to eternally question, react, move, and hopefully, move others. Izzy's socially engaged arts practice focuses on empowerment and interactive performance. She runs SOMEWHERE BETWEEN - a femme/queer performance production company which aims to produce, create and facilitate new innovative and uniquely styled work, as well as teach, host workshops and work with marginalised groups in society, making theatre accessible to all. Izzy is also co-creator of SHIITAKE NIGHTS, Glasgow Southside’s SELL-OUT absurd cabaret. Her workshops centre clowning and playful practice through a psychological lens, exploring vulnerability, failure, self-acceptance and resilience. She has created and performed original work and hosted cabarets at Edinburgh, Brighton and Prague Fringe Festivals, as well as at Eden and Kelburn festivals.
Feedback from previous workshops:
"I benefited from the relaxed safe space where I could be myself and feel free"
“It was nice to bask in some failure."
Where - SHIITAKE HQ, Templeton House, Glasgow Green
When - Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th May, 10-4pm
Priced on a sliding scale, so please choose the ticket that feels most comfortable for you. If money is a barrier to your attendance, please email me. I would like this workshop to be as accessible as possible.
* Limited availibility, sign up ASAP to secure place.
* Purchase of this ticket includes access to the full workshop. We cannot offer refunds on your purchase.
* We share the studio with other (quiet and lovely) artists and cannot guarantee exclusive use of the space.
* Please contact izzystott@googlemail.com for any questions about access.
“Izzy has such a skill at holding the space and making it exciting and fun while ensuring it feels safe and inclusive”
- Workshop Participant (PLAY MY WAY)