TRAINING

Nesbitt has performed at the Andorra International Festival of All Women Clowns in 2005 and since has toured Europe and the States performing in fringe festivals, speakeasies, black boxes, nursing homes, puppet slams, backyards, bunkers, inside a dumpster and her film has been shown at a drive-in movie theater (via Risk/Reward). Nesbitt has training in Physical Theatre and gives credit to their masterful fool teacher Giovanni Fusetti and to the eternally beloved Obie/Bessie awarding winning playwright saint, Laurie Carlos - to the the schools of The Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theater, the Pig Iron Theater Company, The Celebration Barn Theater, and most importantly - the DIY community around me. I also have a background in Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and hold a Bachelors Degree in the Arts & Sciences with a certification in Occupational Therapy since 1999. 

TRAINING

UPCOMING TRAINING - THE MOVING TEACHER - TRAINING WITH GIOVANNI FUSETTI IN BOULDER, Colorado 2024

2020 DEANNA FLEYSHER Covid Clown Intensive, Virtual Character Development, 3 months, Portland, OR

2019 Gender Embodiment Workshop with EmbodyEmerge’s Terra Lyn Anderson, FLOCK, Portland, OR

2018 DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE Haruko "Crow" Nishimura + Joshua Kohl, Butoh/Sound, week long workshop, Water in the Desert Theater, Portland, OR

2017 MUSHIMARU FUJIEDA, Natural Physical Poetry, Butoh Workshop, one day, Water in the Desert Theater, Portland, OR

2017 TRACY BROYLES, Altars of Reconciliation somatic workshop, one evening, The Tiny Theater, Portland, OR

2017 MIZU DESIERTO, Harvest Rituals workshop of Butoh, contemplative dance and physical theatre, one day, Water in the Desert Theater, Portland, OR

2017 LIZ BARON, Voice Training, private one/on/one 1/2 day session, Santa Cruz, CA

2017 GIOVANNI FUSETTI, Greenhouse of Fools Summer Residency, The Celebration Barn Theater, South Paris, ME

2017, GIOVANNI FUSETTI, Dreambody Theater Spring Seminar; Clowns & Characters, Process Works Institute, Portland, OR

2017, KEITH HENNESSY,  1/2 day workshop on 'Practicing Death & Dying' Portland, OR

2016, DELL'ARTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, Physical Theater Summer Intensive, Blue Lake, CA

2016, DREAMBODY, Amy and Arnold Mindell, winter series, Process Works Institute, Portland, OR

2015, GIOVANNI FUSETTTI, Red Noses, 4 week intensive Clown Training, Boulder, CO

2015, RADICAL PRESENCE, Series taught by Anet Ris-Kelman, Portland, OR

2015, GIOVANNI FUSETTI, Neutral Mask, 3 Day Workshop, Portland, OR

2015, STUMPTOWN CLOWN COLLECTIVE, Playlab Series, Portland, OR

2015, FLOCK, Exquisite Corpus Experimental, Linda Austin Dance, Portland, OR

2013 THE CELEBRATION BARN THEATER, Ensemble member from 2011-2013, South Paris, ME

2012, ROBERT POST, Directed week long ensemble residency at The Celebration Barn Theater, South Paris, ME

2011, ROBERT POST, Directed week long ensemble residency at The Celebration Barn Theater, South Paris, ME

2011, PIG IRON THEATER COMPANY, Physical Theatre, winter intensive, Philadelphia, PA

2009, ROBERT POST, Directed week long ensemble residency at The Celebration Barn Theater, South Paris, ME

2007, LAURIE CARLOS, (Bessie/OBIE recipient), 'THE BONES OF YOUR EXPERIENCE', one week immersion, The Celebration Barn Theater, South, Paris, ME

2006, LAURIE CARLOS, (Bessie/OBIE recipient), What do you know? 3 day workshop, hosted by The Celebration Barn Theater, held in Portland, ME

2005, GARDI HUTTER, Clown Training, one week, Festival Internacional de Pallasses d'Andorra, Andorra, Europe

2002, AVNER EISENBERG & the late JULIE GOELL, ECCENTRIC CLOWNING10 day intensive, The Celebration Barn Theater, South Paris, ME

laurie carlos

Laurie Carlos (January 25, 1949 – December 29, 2016) was one of the American theatre’s most provocative and distinguished writers, actresses, directors, choreographers, and playwright since the 1970s. Her works are described as biting examinations on social, gender, and race-related issues and ruminations of what it means to be an African American woman. She was also known for her work mentoring emerging artists in the theater.

"In an instant Laurie knew your fears, your hurts, your dreams. And because she knew that the only thing that could save any of us, is for us to break ourselves wide open/to stand strongly in that—to be witnessed making choices from that place . . . to make art from that/there . . . to never rest in the comfort of what feels comfortable  . . . she’d do the kindest, most humane thing—she’d go in.  She’d help us get to and work from that place. Not everyone was ready. Those of us that were Blessed enough to have been in the room and to have had something in us say yes to that work . . .  well/really—she saved us. And I believe that that was exactly Laurie’s intention. To save us. From mediocrity. From ego. From laziness. From half-realized art making. From being paralyzed by fear. Laurie wanted to help us Shine fully. In our artistry. In our Lives." - Sharon Bridgforth

She won an Obie Award for originating the role of “Lady in Blue” in Ntozake Shange’s landmark choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” — a rite-of-passage work for legions of young people finding their voices.Carlos also earned two Bessies, the dance world’s highest honor. Her first was in 1989 for her fierce performance in “Heat,” a collaboration between the New York troupe Urban Bush Women and Carlos’ performance ensemble Thought Music. She earned another in 1993 for “White Chocolate for My Father,” a piece about historical distortions and disfiguring stereotypes. Those honors solidified her position in New York’s downtown avant-garde scene, making her a major-domo on the margins. But her biggest legacy is as mentor, guide and spiritual sage to artists across the country. 

red nose training in giovanni fusetti's 4 week intensive in boulder, colorado 2015 

Currently Giovanni focuses mainly on pedagogic practice and research and is deeply grateful to all the masters and teachers who has opened the path before him. His 25 years of pedagogical research include training and practice in Theatre in Education, Conflict Resolution, Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Gestalt, Reichian Bionergetics and Process Work.
 
Since the beginnings of his quest, Giovanni has been integrating in his pedagogy, movement based theatre with different practices of physical and emotional awareness, in particular Gestalt,  Reichian Analysis and Process Work, as well as his background in Natural Sciences and Ecology.  His desire is to explore the ancient vision of theatre as a way to ecstasy.

Alongside his pedagogic work in training professional theatre artists, Giovanni has worked with children of all ages, homeless persons, activists, teachers, therapists, hospital clowns and human beings in research, using theatre as a pedagogic paradigm of personal healing and poetic awakenings. Red Nose Clown holds a special space in his heart and work: Giovanni is passionate about midwifing clowns and he has coached hundreds of clowns into existence in many countries of the world, both in professional artistic trainings and in processes of healing through clown (Tao of Clown, Clown and Gestalt, Transanalyse).

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