Last week I found a website called www.thxthxthx.com , where Leah Dieterich offers longhand shows of appreciation for situations one normally doesn’t note…
Some of her notes made me laugh so hard… and I was so curious, I couldn’t stop reading her… (thanking the fridge, the muscle, the blue gas stove flame, the booze, the tatoo etc…)
Only then I realized….that Clown Me In ( Gaby and myself) and before even thinking about thanking random things in life…we never thanked all the “behind the scene” friends who have been helping us since we have started!
So here you go,
Christian Irles… the poor guy who had to bare our stupidity when making the blog
Pascale Chehade whom I just sent a clown me in proposal paper and asked her to make it look better… she not only did that, but also the logo, the designs, some of the posters and the completion certificate.
Valentina Munoz who is offering us great costumes
Gabriela Frias who offered all her miles to Gaby
Farah Kassem who’s taking the beautiful pictures and videos ( the bad ones are taken by us)
Cynthia Choucair who’s always present
Elie Abou jawdeh the quickest poster design
Wissam Chidiak one poster and technical godaddy and google mail adjustments
Ailin Conant who spent one month with us creating in Mexico
William Choukeir for a specific full of ideas e-mail he sent me
David Habchy who has this great talent in coming up with whatever I need… whenever I want
The Indian embassy who gave Gaby a visa in no time
The Mexican embassy who gave me a visa in 1 day (as I forgot to make one before leaving)
The brick theatre in NY, Berenice Gonzales who supported Gaby a lot
all the organizations and theatre companies we worked with….
And finally our families (moms, dads, sisters, brothers ) who just love and embrace our craziness
All our friends who were and still are such a great support
We thank you for believing in us and making our lives easier …
did i forget anyone???? ooooooops
Sabine Choucair
“Perhaps, perhaps, quizás…” es una obra de clown que juega con la idea de la espera e ilusión por encontrar al hombre “perfecto”y la soledad a la que esta conlleva cuando uno mismo es tan imperfecto. En una época en donde la presión del tiempo y la falta de esperanza en uno mismos son inminentes, nuestra protagonista Greta ensaya una vez a la semana el gran día, el día de la boda. Tendrá suerte esta noche? Quizás, quizás, quizás…
Perhaps, perhaps.. se presentó en el NY Clown Theatre Festival 2010 recibiendo excelentes críticas. En México en la carpa de Cirko de Mente y la Universidad de la Comunicación. Se presentará en Suecia dentro del Festival STOFFFlower was strictly objecting on the wedding today at TedxBeirut…
and actually Flower doesn’t know why they called it a wedding…
and Sabine’s clown Flower…. objected… as obviously…
TedxBeirut would be only HERS 🙂
Ok…She had to kiss some guys from time to time ( out of depression ) and to look for the bride to be, among the girls!!!!!!
Below are some pictures from a Clown Me In workshop held with the employees of IECD
( Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement – Délégation Proche Orient) in lebanon
As a start, it was the first time i would play with people in French…
was so worried to the point where i had to look for all the technical words and study them before the group got to the workshop space 🙂 …
well it wasn’t as dramatic as i am picturing it here.
It was quite interesting to get the group in the game, after a long day of work!!! but once there… the fun began!
The only problem was the couches i have…as they were so comfortable…and inviting people constantly to take a nap
even Louise’s baby looked so comfortable!!!!
i will leave you with the pictures now so you can imagine the rest of the story…
Merci les IECD 🙂
Salhieh – Saida – South of Lebanon…
A school for children with special need… newly built, the smell of paint is still filling the place, endless empty rooms prepared nicely and neatly and waiting for the kids to come on the 13th of October….
So much echo that one only needs to whisper in order for the whole school to vibrate…
Now add to that, 30 educators, 31 laughter per second and imagine how it was like when spending 2 days there, clowning around!
I do not need to meet the kids or see the educators working with them to know that the atmosphere is relaxed, the love is out there and everybody enjoys it…. it’s a marvelous needed school in Lebanon, I would even say … one of a kind !!!!!
with open, creative, loving team, that I had the chance to clown with.
Pictures say it all…
so enjoy…
hopefully as much as we enjoyed!
Jordan and Hakaya festival will be Sabine’s first stop for a new Clown Me In workshop after the Indian experience. It is so exciting to be back to the Arab world and play with the participants. Will be missing Gabriela Munoz!
The workshop will be held from the
14th till the 18th of September between 10am and 1pm at Al Balad Theatre, Amman.
And here we are, Gabriela Munoz and Sabine Choucair, clowning around India with Clown Me In… Farah Kassem is also with us taking lovely pictures and videos…. what an experience…
The journey started in Dhampur, where the director of the school “Rajesh” and his wife “Nisha” who was wearing a beautiful colorful sari, welcomed us with some Chai and coffee… We certainly got to the sweetest place ever. Colors were sweet, people were sweeter and the smell of sugar everywhere…
Wasn’t a coincidence to smell this in the air. Apparently we are indeed in Dhampur Sugar Mills and we were to be hosted at the guest house of the sugar factory…
A lovely big house, a great cook and again lots of sweet people all around.
Now the school is amazing too..the rooms are mostly dedicated for sports games like squash, basketball, gym, they even have a swimming pool, a space for music, for carpentry, and lots of classrooms where desks are put in a form of an “L”… That’s a proper school of new age.
At school with the kids we had lots of fantastic moments. Pushp Niketan school is a school of new age, the teachers and children are all happy at all times, they have freedom and no stress whatsoever, which really reflects on the way they behave and the love they have for each other. We learned a lot from them, we enjoyed how playful they were in class and how creative they are. We remember one time we were doing the butoh exercise and asked a boy to have the angry face … He smiled to us and moved his head the Indian way and said yes yes angry…We burst with laughter, it was extremely funny and sweet to us how he expressed his anger with such a happiness that you only have to be that transparent to feel it.
In general anyway, the Pushp Niketan school was full of transparent people, just like its directors, the marvelous couplle, Nisha and Rajish.
It was quite emotional to leave this school. We went into a parade all together with music and clowning around all the classes…
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Our last session with the teachers, was mostly playing the cat and mouse game that they loved and talking and sharing thoughts and sensations… Then they bought us saris…. And drew on our hands some henna so we won’t forget them…. As if they are to be forgotten…
Since that day, we talk about them and how beautiful they were… How caring, how emotional to leave the school, the people, the atmosphere, the sugar mills…
The second part of the Journey, is at Riverside school in Ahmedabad…. now this, we will tell you about it when it’s done!!!!! and more and more to come when we go to Chandigarh and Dehradun to work with some street performers 🙂 ….
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