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OUR TEAM

Founded by Vivian Gladwell in 1990, Nose to Nose is a team of people with diverse experiences in the fields of theatre, community building, teaching, storytelling, play therapy, counselling, Special Needs and organisational consultancy. Our influence and training ranges from The Bataclown (France) and  the Sacred Art of Clowning to Jonathan Kay’s Theatre of Now and the Roy Hart Theatre. See also:

Vivian Gladwell

lives and works in France as a modern day Court Jester with various businesses and teaches clowning with the Bataclown. He also teaches English at the University of Social Sciences in Toulouse. Founding member of Nose to Nose and Fool View, the Social Clowning group, he regularly visits England to give clown workshops at Emerson College and the Blackthorn Trust Medical Centre in Maidstone.  His research into the applications of clowning to teaching has taken him to Germany at the Waldorf Pedagogik Institute in Witten Annen, a college based on the teachings and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.

 

Terry Harrington

began organising Nose to Nose workshops in the UK in 1994. A trained counsellor, she works on a helpline for children and families and facilitates non-directive play with children and young people. She runs clown workshops for counsellors and for team building in organisation.

Sharon Usher

lives and works at The Abbey Sutton Courtenay, a retreat centre and community. Her background is in organisational consultancy, group facilitation and community building.  She has also trained in sacred clowning with Didier Danthois and has recently toured with an improvisational theatre company associated with Jonathan Kay’s Theatre of Now.

Paul MacDonald

teaches drama and clowning at the Artemis School in Peredur, East Sussex where he first trained in Creative Speech. He also runs clown workshops for Waldorf teachers, doctors and Special Needs groups. He is currently directing a number of clown performances.

 


 

... and in memory of Jackie Moore
who died 31 July 2006

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