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Our team in North America
As facilitators, we believe we stay true to the spirit of clowning
when we flow with the creative process of each person, when we
nurture its emotional expression and the emergence of the imagination
and when we facilitate and free actors to find their own clown,
unique and grounded in their relationship to the audience. It
is our belief that by focusing on the individual we are, in fact,
going straight to the heart of clowning which is the search for
authenticity both in the social or personal dimensions of our
lives.
 Vivian
Gladwell
FOUNDER OF NOSE TO NOSE (1988)
Vivian is the founder and director of Nose to Nose and has given
hundreds of workshops around the world. He lives both in the UK
and France where he started clowning in 1978.
He began teaching in 1988 as part of the Lifeways Festival at
Emerson College – UK. He trained as a facilitator with the
Bataclown
in 1990 and joined their team in 1992 also working as a modern
day Court Jester ( Clownanalyst).
He created Nose to Nose UK in 1990,
Nose to Nose of North America in 2006
and Fool View, the Social Clowning group
and has trained facilitators in the UK, the USA, Germany and Italy
– view history.
He continues his role as ambassador for the work by researching
the applications of clowning in the context of teacher training,
medicine, conflict management, ecology and intercultural work
in many countries ( South Africa, USA, Senegal, Vietnam, India,
Malaysia, Italy, Germany, Norway…)
He holds clowning as a social playground for exploring our
humanity.
 Laura
Geilen
Laura Geilen teaches dance, Spacial Dynamics,
circus arts, therapeutic movement, acro-yoga and clowning to children,
adults, and special needs groups in schools, workplaces, institutions
and privately. Laura is a member of Walking the dog Theater's
OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble, and is a facilitator
with Nose to Nose. She believes in clowning as a personal practice
and journey towards greater truth, freedom and aliveness and also
as a social art that can re-connect us to the world and bring
healing to our relationships.
 Kristin
Spaeth Crowley
Kristin did not come to clowning by choice, but was forced into
it by wiser others who knew where she belonged. Her work as a clown
and facilitator led her to the fumbling discovery and recovery of
a language she knows inwardly, loves, and could have lost. Her specialties
include weeping, falling in love, making mischief, and the invisible.
She is grateful for the inspiration and example of those brilliant,
talented and generous people she has been privileged to work with
or been touched by - artists, musicians, athletes, educators, poets,
seekers, thinkers, healers, and other “ordinary” fearful and courageous
spirits willing to risk and dare. She is amazed and astonished by
her family, her parents and siblings, her children, and those she
has claimed unjustly as her own; by those braver than she, facing
the ordinary challenges connected with being alive; and by forgiveness.
She is interested in presences and possibilities.
She is informed by life and living, by beauty, ugliness, music,
laughter, poetry, nature, stillness, cruelty, and compassion, by
brave souls and tender hearts … by the struggle to realize the impulse
that initiated a wish to be, and by the work she has to do. The
mistakes she makes: the limitations she must overcome; the struggles
she faces in being and becoming; the gifts she has been given; and
her sense of wonder, reverence, and gratitude inform and guide her
in her work with others. She works with individuals, companies,
institutions, agencies, and organizations. She still struggles and
falls down.
 Blondine
Maurice
Since 1969 the film of Jean Louis Barrault, Les enfants du Paradis,
the theme of the Fool has refused to leave her heart.1999 onwards:
various encounters with different streams of seeking the Fool in
You; but mostly and truly embracing the approach of Vivian Gladwell
in NosetoNose Europe& NA. She is now, after the Facilitator
Training a proud member of the first NoseToNose Inner Clown
Team of NA.
Blondine has raised 7 children, has 8 grand children and been
a Waldorf Early Childhood teacher since 1980. These experiences
granted her many opportunities to find the humor in everyday life.
Assisting for 7 years in various transformative workshops and
Body Mind Therapy training has helped Blondine to develop ease in
holding space, listening and creating a safe environment for emerging
clowns. Meanwhile she creates a lifetime journey towards her business:
The Heart Nose and the healing power of laughter.
Her quest ...encountering in innocence & wonder, favorite
quote of the day: “You can
discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation” Plato
Angie Foster
Angie has been leading workshops in the Philadelphia area. This
form of clowning combines her passion for improvisation and theatre
and her quest for self-discovery. Angie is a professional actress;
she has performed on Broadway, and in regional theatres. She has
also been directing plays at Kimberton Waldorf School for 12 years.
Her training includes the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Andre Gregory
and the Manhattan Project, vocal work with Kristen Linklater, gestalt
therapy training, Spacial Dynamics with Jaimen McMillan, and 25
years of yoga.
Associate
 Sarah
French
Sarah French was a practicing psychotherapist before turning,
with relief and joy, to the paradoxical world of Clown. Sarah
sees clowning as an invitation to celebrate full being. She
has practiced clowning around the world with Jef Johnson, Vivian
Gladwell, and the wild dolphins of Hawaii, who are all research
partners in a lifelong study of play. Sarah facilitates playshops
on her own and with other collaborators. She holds an MSW from
New York University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
... and in memory
of Ann Willcutt
who died May 6, 2014
Ann clowned with Avner Eisenberg, Julie Goell, Keith Johnstone,
Karen Montanero, Ruth Zaporah, and Vivian Gladwell.
She had 33 years of teaching in Waldorf and public schools including
teaching Biography to adults and mentoring teachers. She held
an MA in Speech and Theatre from Indiana University.
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