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CLOWN since 1985 • Three decades on the stage • Trained with great teachersClown Performaces & Training
Some performances
Festival Cultural Revueltas (Durango, Mexico)
Torres Vedras, Municipal Theatre (Portugal)
Artimond Kunstfestival in Helmond (Holland)
Biddingshulzen, Lowlands (Holland)
Kortrikj Sinksenfesteen (Belgium)
Rotterdam (Holland)
Eindhoven (Holland)
Festival de Teatro de Calle de Issoudun (France)
Marseille and Nice (France)
Straatfestival, Vlissingen, (Holland)
Zomer’04 International Street Art Festival, Menem (Belgium)
Mimos, Festival International du mime de Périgueux (France)
Newcastle (England)
Ordino (Andorra)
Fiesta Mayor, Burgos (Spain)
International Festival de Teatro de Calle, Albacete (Spain)
Málaga es Calle, Festival de Teatro de Calle, Málaga (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Teatro de Calle, Santander (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Teatro de Calle, Orense (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Teatro de Calle, Rubí (Spain)
La Calle para los Artistas, Vitoria (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Teatro de Calle, Tàrrega (Spain)
Muestra de Payasos de Xirivella, Valencia (Spain)
Festival de Artes Teatrales de Valls (Spain)
Festival de Teatro de Barcelona – Special Jury Prize (Spain)
Festival de Payasas, Andorra (Spain)
Festival de las Artes, Burgos (Spain)
Festival de Artes de Calle, Barcelona (Spain)
Festival Emergent, Girona (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Teatro de Calle, Aguilar de Campoo (Spain)
Fiesta Mayor, Tarragona (Spain)
Temporada en el Teatro Artenbrut, Barcelona (Spain)
Pallassodrom, Clown Festival, Vilaseca (Spain)
La Setmana del Pallasso, Castellar del Valles (Spain)
L’ 1,2,3 del Pallasso, Festival de Circo, Tiana (Spain)
Fest!, Festival de Artes Escénicas, Sevilla (Spain)
Apallassa’t, Festival de Clown, Barcelona (Spain)
Festival International de Pallassos de Cornellà (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Clown, Madrid (Spain)
Fira Internacional de Tarrega (Spain)
Encuentro de Narices, Granada (Spain)
Mueca, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain)
Malpaís de Calle, Lanzarote (Spain)
Festival de Teatro de Calle, Puente Genil (Spain)
Festival de Primavera, Mieres (Spain)
Muestra Internacional de Teatro de Ribadavia (Spain)
Semana Grande de Bilbao (Spain)
La Mercè, Fiesta Mayor, Barcelona (Spain)
Fiesta del Pilar, Zaragoza (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Teatro de Calle, Valladolid (Spain)
Festival Internacional de Teatro de Calle, Aguilar de Campoo (Spain)
Training
2017 – Clown with Jesús Jara & Amaia Prieto (Spain)
2016 – Clown with Cris Martí (Argentina)
2016 – Physical comedy with John Towsen (USA)
2015 – Clown with Virginia Imaz (Spain)
2014 – Clown with Jesús Jara & Amaia Prieto (Spain)
2013 – Clown with Ramon Albistur & Esther Carrizo (Spain)
2012 – Clown with Lila Monti (Argentina)
2010 – Clown with Lila Monti (Argentina)
2009 – Clown with Dario Levín & Lila Monti (Argentina)
2006 – Clown with Virginia Imaz (Spain)
2005 – Clown with Avner The Eccentric (USA)
2003 – Clown with Julie Goell (USA)
1997 – Clown I & II with Jango Edwards (USA)
1996 – Clown II with Michel Dallaire (Canada) & Pierre Pilatte (Belgium).
1995 – Clown I with Michel Dallaire (Canada) & Pierre Pilatte (Belgium).
1994–90
Comic Theatre with Johnny Melville (Scotland)
Clown with Eric de Bont (Holland)
Dance (contemporary, african, tap and release)
Voice and singing
1988–85
FOOLTIME Circus School (Bristol, UK). Specialized in clown, voice, impro and acrobatics. With John Lee, Frankie Anderson, Kevin Brooking, Bim Mason & Guy Dartnell.
Commedia del Arte with Carlo Bosso (Italy)
1985–84
Comic Theatre with Dario Fo (Itlaia) y Trestle Theatre (UK)
Mime with Nola Rae (UK) & David Glass (UK)
1984–81 B.A Theatre degree at Exeter University (U.K)
press
“The audience couldn’t stop laughing” • “Splendid” • “Endless laughter” • “Captivated the audience”Press
¡Just say yes!
“She provoked endless laughter throughout the whole show… Prolonged applause bid her farewell.”
Diario el Siglo de Durango (Mexico) 20-10-2007
“Caroline captivated her audience… her creativity and stage craft were outstanding.”
Diario Victoria (Mexico) 20-10-2007
“The audience couldn’t stop laughing; her madness, her jokes and her unique style made this night unforgettable. The audience gave her a standing ovation.”
Diario La Opinion (Mexico) 18-10-2007
“loud laughter (…) the audience thanked the show with prolonged standing applause”
21-10-2007 Diario el Sol de Durango
“An authentically elite artist...A sense of the comical that even the best clowns would envy. Caroline Dream demonstrated a communicative capacity that had no need of intermediaries.”
La Revista del Valles (Catalunya, Spain) 26-4-2002
“Just say yes! is a show that one watches with great pleasure. Caroline Dream has the power of communication, a generous expressiveness and a range of very differing registers. This small show fills the stage, at certain moments, with an attractive tenderness and others that are frankly excellent.”
El Periodico de Catalunya (Catalunya, Spain) 13-9-2002
Niu Adventurs (Caroline Dream & Alex Navarro)
“Of note, Niu Adventurs, in which Navarro and Dream scatter empathy, irony and their mastery of timing.”
Diari Avui (Catalunya, Spain) 29-11-2006
“Commendable sensitivity… demonstrating an evocative stage craft and a biting, incisive style of clowning for adults.” – Artez nº 69 Revista de las Artes Escénicas (Spain) Jan 2003
“In the recent edition of the Cornella Clown Festival, Niu Adventurs stood out, with the splendid Alex Navarro and Caroline Dream.”
Diari Avui (Catalunya, Spain) 04-12-2002
“A first-class comedy show… Caroline gives a lesson in expressiveness, a silent but intelligent dialogue. Alex and Caroline teach us how to discover the clown we all have within us.”
Revista del Vallés (Catalunya, Spain) 15-11-2002
“Alex and Caroline play on stage as if they were in the dining room of their home and as if the audience were friends who had come to visit…. absurd humour, an intelligent show”
9 de Nou (Catalunya, Spain) 11-11-2002
Primigenio – Cia. Teatro de Pronto from Caroline Dream & Alex Navarro
”They were really good”, – says the newspaper’s photographer when we return to the office. Do you know how many shows our newspaper photographer sees year after a year? There is no critic’s opinion more valid than his.” – Diario de Pontevedra (Spain) 2-8-2004
“One of the most praised performances… such was the success of Teatro de Pronto that even after an hour they couldn’t shake off the mass of humans that chased after them.” – Diario del Mundo (Spain) 25-5–2002
“Primigenio stands out amongst the street offerings at the Fira de Tarrega.”
Diari Avui (Spain) 7-9-2002
DIARIO DE PONTEVEDRA 02-08-2004 &
DIARIO EL MUNDO DE VALLADOLID 25-05-2002 EL NORTE DE CASTILLA 25-05-2002 EL FARO DE VIGO 20-07-2002 COVER DEL FARO DE VIGO 20-07-2002 LA REGIÓN 20-07-2002 COVER DE LA LA REGIÓN 20-07-2002 COVER DE LA VOZ DE GALICIA 20-07-2002 DIARI AVUI 07-09-02 DIARI SEGRE 07-09-02
Clean
“Dazzling and funny, that’s how this British clown is”
La Región (Galicia) 13-7-97
“Numerous audiences attended the show” Clean “by Caroline Dream, which surprised young and old due to its dynamic structure.”
El Diario Montañes (Cantabria) 1-6-97
“Zappy capacity for improvisation and inter-relation with the audience shown by Caroline Dream.”
Diari Avui (Catalonia) 25-9-97
shows
Footless • Niu Adventurs (with Alex Navarro) • Primigenio (with De Pronto) • ¡Just say yes! • Clean More…D i s c o n t i n u e d • s h o w s
Footless – 2010
The oceans cover 70% of our planet and represent 95% of the biosphere. For 3,500 million years in its waters between 5 and 10 million species have lived, 97% of which we still know little about. Maybe we never will…
Presented as a documentary about nature that the audience, invited to participate in the expedition, will be able to experience first hand. A creature, half woman, half fish, comes out of hiding to enjoy the sun and the beach. Very soon her tranquility, and even her life, are threatened by encounters with humans and their imprudent habits.
Told with humor, simplicity and poetry, the show highlights the devastating effects of the pollution and destruction of the world’s coastlines, and the consequent threat to marine biodiversity.
A clown’s vision of humans and their relationship with nature. A mermaid’s attempt to survive in the modern world.
Clown/actors: Caroline Dream and Jaume Amatller
Lighting design: Xavi Valls
Director: Àlex Navarro
Set design and construction: Juan Carlos Sagarra
Inflatable sea: Victor Martinez
Original Habanera music: Albert Prat
Music alterations: Jorge Sarraute
Costume and props: Caroline Dream
For all audiences
¡Just Say Yes! – 2002
The search to fulfil romantic fantasies and encounter the happy ending of fairy tales can drive a person crazy… because reality is painfully different… even though… I may also crazy. I have to be wide awake to find the man of my dreams… and no-one is going to stop me with some sugar coated anesthesia.
¡Just say yes! Is not just a solo clown show… it’s much more; it’s a modern adventure, a journey through the female psyche to discover the hard truths about relationships…
Clown: Caroline DreamScenery: Txema Rico
Lighting design: Josep Mª Mora
Director: Merche Ochoa
For all audiences
Niu Adventurs – 2000 (with Alex Navarro)
A clownesque adventure by Alex Navarro and Caroline Dream. Absurd and direct humour, with one of the most Spanish international clowns (or was it the other way around?) and one of the least English English clowns.
Alex and Caroline explore all the possible clowns forms, in an exciting cabaret format, where the most hilarious absurdity reigns and any resemblance to normality is pure coincidence. For them, the ordinary is extraordinary… and not making people laugh, mission impossible.
Clowns: Alex Navarro and Caroline Dream
Direction: Merche Ochoa
Lighting design: Marcelo Spinelli
Scenery: Montse Pons
For adult or youth audiences
Primigenio – 2000
The best kept scientific secret of the century has ceased to be so. The missing link between the chimpanzee and the human being has been discovered in a remote part of the planet. Some specimens were moved from their natural habitat to an animal research center for study but… they have escaped and are now lost in the city! Incapable of understanding a world they do not know, they are creating chaos in the streets.
You are cautioned that, although they are not dangerous, they are bestially funny.
The show was conceived for street performance. Based in improvisation and interaction with the environment, it aims to turn normal life into a theatrical event.
Clown / actors: Alex Navarro, Caroline Dream, Jaume Amatller, Andrés CavallínProsthesis: Caroline Dream
Photography: Clara Bertran
Idea and Production: Alex Navarro
Direction: Iris
Clean – 1996
Look at everything that is to be done! There’s no way one should leave the city, the world, that dirty. Just because no-one else seems to care, doesn’t mean it’s possible to turn a blind eye on so much unnecessary rubbish…
Caroline Dream achieves with CLEAN dazzling results. CLEAN washes white the blackest mood. You may believe you are dreaming, rub your eyes, ask your neighbors if that person on the windscreen of that bus is real.
The bioagradable action of CLEAN is a spectacle of mental hygiene that leaves the asphalt like gleaming gold.