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"Let's Redress Stress!"- A Sampler Video

Let's Redress Stress
Stress reduction in action!
Let's Redress Stress has "left crowds of adults in hysterics." Moose Jaw Times-Herald Responding to the worldwide anxiety attack of the Millennium, Major Flapps offers audience volunteers a chance to try his "International Stress Reduction Techniques" in this witty and delightful lampooning of our obsessions with health, fitness, looking good and material gain. "Non stop appeal." CBC
Flapps!
Sally Glover

The workshop [also offered as a Conference presentation entitled: "Humour: a Spiritual Second Wind" with Psychologist Sally Glover] powerfully demonstrates how the clown uses humour to provide breakthroughs to audience participants in overcoming fear, resistance and managing change positively in their lives.

Facing stress demons!!
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Custom Shows and Workshops
Depending on the client’s needs, we can design performances and workshops for:
Team Building
Theme Enhancement
Animating Special Events Environments
Interactive/Roving Clowning
Improvisational Techniques for Enhancing Creative Thinking

A selection of Customized Presentations we have offered:
• Molson Indy 500 (Crowd Animation as Clown Mechanic, Traffic Controller),
• Shaw@Home Computer Presentation (Internet Man)
• Expo ’86 (Stand-In-Line Square Dances)
• Canada Winter Games, Jasper Alberta (Skiing and Line-Up Animation)
• World Earth Day, New York City: (Sunny Palm: Talking, Interactive Tree)
• Vancouver International Airports Conference (Clown Flight Controller)
• Canada Pavilion: Expo 86 (Major in the Maritimes Show)
• Victoria Harbour Festival Technology Tent (Virtual Reality Fiddler)
• Southwest Alberta Teacher’s Conference, Lethbridge (Drama for the Terrified
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On Site Performing
The world’s only human airplane, Clown Aviator Major Flapps, talks with a kazoo as he enlists passerbys (2-l0 people) as his signaler and flying crew for a brief flypast. He can also delight the crowd with performances of 'The Fiddling Clown Aviator", "The Clown Mechanic", "A Fiddling Maritime Fisher, and the very cool "Snow Show".
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• Discover Your Inner Clown
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Combining the playful openness of the child with the wisdom of the adult, your clown will emerge through mask, costume, props, movement, improvisation, musical parody, and attitude in performance styles. Participants will work supportively in different group sizes focusing on how/what creates humour as well as the clown’s interactive audience style of making failure into success through creative problem solving and wit!
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Drama for the Terrified
Where do you start if you’ve never taught drama before? How do you work with students who are inexperienced, resistant, shy or as anxious as you? This workshop offers strategies, exercises, techniques and a philosophy of play for beginning drama teachers, community leaders or anyone who is interested in exploring the fun and benefits of theatrical play. Stuart incorporates live and recorded music, movement, games, mask and theatre sports to engage participants sense of fun. Ideal for team building and strengthening trust of learners.
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Acting Styles of Comedy
Using examples of television, film and stage comedians, participants will practise how to powerfully deliver comic routines using physical comedy, parody, rhythm, attitude and intention.
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