These have been undertaken in a variety of settings regionally, nationally and internationally including..... Midlands Arts Centre, Artlink, Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham REP, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, PLAYTRAIN, Language Alive, Big Brum TIE, Artsites Birmingham, South Humberside Dance Project, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Ikon Art Gallery, Mead Art Gallery, Worcester Art Gallery, Barber institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Theatre 95, Cergy-Pontoise, France; Centre Selavy, France; Swinfen Hall prison, Foston Hall prison, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham, Universities, Colleges, schools and under 5's children's projects.

  Community & Education
  Outreach Workshops

Processes are based on collaboration, improvisation, research and play.The starting point is the individual's own range of movement, creativity and emotion in response to themes explored promoting holistic well-being.

Workshops are available in Mime, Physical Theatre, Mask and Clown.

The Rainbow Project

Jane has worked with pupils from Adderley Children's Centre throughout 2007 & 2008. The work explored creative movement and play with under 5's. This project has been a great success.

BIP Kids
Creative Drama for Children
‘A Midsummer Dream’ at Winterbourne Botanical Gardens, University of Birmingham.

28th July – 1st August 2008 ... 10am – 1pm

A 5-day drama and personal development project for children aged 7 -11. The week involved drama, cooperative games, outdoor performance.
This workshop was a place where young people had the chance to share their personal stories and ideas about the world through the medium of drama. The week was aimed at helping young people to develop more confidence and enhance their communication and social and relationship skills.
We put particular focus on the telling and enactment of personal stories inspired by the title of the week: ‘A Midsummer Dream.’

This project was organised and facilitated by Jane Sutcliffe & Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama. BIP provides workshops and training in psychotherapy & creative drama. Please contact Alyson Coupe or Clark Baim : 0121 454 3871
www.birminghampsychodrama.co.uk

Clown Play- July 7th-10th 2008

A four day Clown residency with students from St Benedict's School, Small Heath, Birmingham.

May play Mask 2008

A two-day workshop in movement and mask play. We explored neutral mask, larval masks and half-masks based on characters from " A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Summer residencies 2007

The Art of Gesture & The Play of Clown

17th & 18th July Waverley School, Birmingham

23rd & 24th August Alcester Grammar School

Drawing by Mike Sofroniou - Alcester Grammar School

The Hero's Journey

With Michael Chase and Anita Charton

Therapeutic Application of Mask in Personal and Professional Development

A path to understanding archetypes in biography

If I could hear the voice of destiny what would my call sound like? How do I become the Hero in my journey?

Exploring the victim, the hero and how archetype and myth meet in personal biography, these ideas of Joseph Campbell and Rudolf Steiner will be facilitated in small groups by dramatic movement with masks, body sculpture and improvisation.

"The Sun...Wednesday 18th October 2006"

"SEND IN THE CLOWNS"

"Free circus lessons for refugees"

"Refugees and asylum seekers are to get free classes- on being CLOWNS. Twenty-five between 12 and 25 will be taught by professional circus performers. The seven-week trial course - partly aimed at helping new arrivals learn English - will cost the taxpayers more than £2000.

It will be paid for by The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, West Midlands, where the classes are being held. The theatre is funded by The Arts Council and the local city council. Angry Bob Spink, Tory MP for Castle Point, Essex said: "This is a politically correct waste of money. It could be spent so much better. You could use it to give these people practical skills to to hold down a job. You could employ more people in the immigration service to remove those who are bogusly seeking asylum. That would be in their best interests and the best interests of the public".

But Justine Themen, the Belgrade's assistant director for community and education, insisted: "Clowning is very British and we want to use it to raise the confidence and social skills of these people. Some people may be in the country because they are escaping persecution. The workshops will be funny and will take people's minds off what might have been a depressing reality. As well as having fun, the participants will build up language skills which will be a major help for them. It is about learning by stealth"

Experts estimate that Coventry has about 8,000 refugees."

j.scott@the-sun.co.uk

December 20th 2006. Jane has just completed this seven-week long project working with a group of ten young refugees. It has been a success and the group are looking to make and present a performance project at The Belgrade in Spring 2007.

  Education Outreach Work

"THE LION" based on "The Chronicles of Narnia" in collaboration with The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for three consecutive years working with four separate schools in Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield and Worcester to produce performance work performed with players from the CBSO.

"Madame La-La" project April 2005 based upon Degas' paintings at The Barber Institute for Fine Art, Birmingham in collaboration with actress Helen Terry.

MAC Physical Theatre Course

  Thursdays 7.30 - 9.30
   www.macarts.co.uk

Winter Term - Mime & Physical Theatre

Finding the animal within (For Jane) "He'd just finished his first ten week term at a mime,movement and physical theatre class and now....

He coughed like a cat, he ate like an antelope, he ran like a rat, he shaved like a snake, he moaned like a monkey, he drew like a giraffe, he wept like a wolf, he breathed like a bear, he washed like a wallaby, he filled in forms like a fox.... and so he felt satisfied that themoney he had paid for the course had been money well spent"

Robert Geoghegan 1998

Spring term - Mask work Neutral, Full, Half masks & Commedia dell'Arte

"The mask is a lens which focuses on the essential. In theatre training, it assists in developing improvisation, gesture and play. In performance, the mask unlike anything else, takes us beyond the personality of the actor into the universality of the character... And in personal development, masks help us to unmask and liberate aspects of one's personality."

Mike Chase
The Glasshouse Theatre, Stourbridge

Summer Term - Physical Comedy and Clown & Fool

"The individual's clown is the repressed self..... it deals with bringing out of each individual the child which has grown up inside him.....

"Apostles of Silence - The Modern French Mimes"

Mira Felner

"If playfulness is at the heart of our creativity, then for some of us at least, clowning is the key to that playfulness"

"Simple Clown" from "Why is that so Funny?" ... A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy

John Wright

Community Education Outreach Work

HOCUS POCUS
 Theatre project

Adults with Learning Difficulties

"Touching The Moon"

The Divine Comedy meets Doctor Who!

"Teapots and Tea...What will be...will be..."

Join us on a voyage into the future up above and beyond...

Jane worked with the company from October 2007 creating "Touching The Moon" which was performed on December 6th at Hollymoor Theatre, Northfield, Birmingham.

"Doctor Doctor!"

Drawing upon the tradition of Commedia dell' Arte and its wealth of characters we welcome you to enjoy our Commedic take on Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus". A physical theatre performance with comedy, masks and live music, with creative input from Hocus Pocus. The piece has been shaped and directed by Jane Sutcliffe. Music by Ann Jones.

The Midlands Arts Centre Main Theatre

January 25th 2007 1.30pm & Friday 26th January 7pm.

Hocus Pocus also performed in "Paradise Dreaming" an adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Johnny O'Hanlon from "Hamfisted" performed in Chamberlain Square, Birmingham City Centre June 22nd-24th 2006.

Gayton Road Project, West Bromwich, Adults with Learning Difficulties collaborating with musician Heather Wastie Autumn 2004.

Hocus Pocus "Persephone" performance Project at mac in the main theatre October 2003.

MASC Adults with Learning Difficulties. Working in collaboration with musician Peter Churchill to produce performance piece "Hat's Off". Autumn 2003

Work with PLAYTRAIN, creative movement and play in nurseries, Bilston Craftplay Project, ARTSITES projects


ARTLINK projects and residencies in day centres and hospital settings combining creative movement work, yoga and reminscence theatre for older people.

Dorothy Tonks as Columbina in "Doctor Doctor"

Midlands Arts Centre January 2007

NORMANHURST DAY CENTRE
Erdington Spring 1989
Photo: Tom Dee

St Benedicts July 2008

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