Puppets and the Medical Clown

Facilitator: M.A. Avital Dvory, Medical Clown , Dream-Doctor project , Israel.

This is a practical workshop in puppetry with orientation to the therapeutic work of the medical clown in hospital. The workshop will focus on modern techniques in puppets animation and puppet as a therapeutic tool. The aim of the course is to extend the clown means of expression and communication.

Puppets are powerful tool for representing various aspects of the inner world, and if we know how to use it, it can serves as a mediator between the inner world and reality.

Hospital’s Object Theatre

Facilitator: M.A. Avital Dvory, Medical Clown , Dream-Doctor project , Israel.

This is a practical workshop in Object animation and transformation with orientation to the therapeutic work of the medical clown in hospital. We will focus on hospital objects –While playing the transformation game, we change the meaning of the object from painful to playful. From painful reality to great fantasy world.

The aim of the workshop is to extend the clown means of expression through visual and non-verbal elements.

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