Bio Jan Dillen

As a cliniclown-oldtimer my passion is to guide you into clowning, from starters to advanced level, over workshops and coaching.

Education

Way back in time

Bachelor Social Cultural Work in Belgium (1983-1985).

Drama teacher Lod. De Raet and DACEB (1985-1987).

Creative Thinking at University Antwerp (1994).

Education in Belgium and other countries about artistic development and body work:

Mime School in Antwerp (Belgium) and (Holland)

ClownSchool in (Compagnie Du Moment).

Ongoing Clown Trainings with Carina Bonan, Serge Ponselet, Els Jansen, Avner Eisenberg, Moshe Cohen, Jango Edwards, Michael Christensen (American Founder of the Hospital Clowns) and others.

Recent

ClownSchool International, clown and dementia

Online 8 week class with Angie Foster and Vivian Gladwell from Nose to Nose . (2020 - 2021)

Jobs

Social Cultural Worker in different organisations for youth and employment.

Worked with Dan Frood and Victoria Marks, movement project ‘The Beweging Antwerpen’, Fura Dels Baus and Enrique Vargas, Colombia, Théatre de los Sentidos. Clown in hospitals, institutions and psychiatry for children from 1999 till 2019.

Artistic Director of Cliniclowns Belgium from 2005 till 2009. ​ Trainer of hospitalclowns worldwide for Theodora Foundation, Rote Naze, Cliniclowns Holland, ​ Cliniclowns Belgium, Dr. Clown Malta.

Leading advanced training for hospitalclowns in Belgium, Suisse, , England, Spain, ​ ​ Italy, White-Russia,Turkey, Hong-Kong China, Malta and Austria.

Co-founder of the school ‘Clownsense’, Belgium since 2014: ​ ​ ● Basic and advanced training for clowns in the field of care ● Organising weekly play-dates for clowns in a ‘Labo’ ● Thematic workshops around music and clowning

Clown Teacher for Hiketnunk vzw ​ ​ ● Online ClownClass ● Mentoring the clowns-spirit ● Coaching duo-clowns and artistic projects

Extra

Advising ‘Zorgclowns and Co’ Belgium

‘Dance and Clown’ with Sue Rickards and Geert Meeus

2020: published my first book ‘Clownslogica’. English version available since March 2021. ​ ​

Jan Dillen www.clownsense.eu www.jandillen.be ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Contact: [email protected] phone 0032 478 69 31 58