Kapucine has not finished making people laugh, smile, challenge, play comedy, accompany, reveal. Kapucine is a burlesque character, a clown born eight years ago, out of the imagination of Valérie Kurek-Armbruster, a former school teacher who is now 54 years old. “I built it, I repaired myself with it. Kapucine helped me to let go, to work on my emotions, to accept them, to live them in the present and to come out of it lighter, “continues the one who taught for more than twenty years.
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For children and seniors
Trained in relational clowns and theater clowns, Valérie does “made-to-measure” in the form of “improvisation”, whether at the bedside of children hospitalized under the banner of the Docteur Sourire association or with senior citizens ‘Ephad Les Tilleuls in Terville, where it takes place a few hours a month (excluding the confinement period) via the Straeto Compagny his project called By the small door.
“The clown is an archaic body which, by its colors, its voice values the other”
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Kapucine, she’s my cousin
“In pediatrics, it is the child who has the hand, I can be a fairy, a dinosaur … In any case, a playmate. In Ephad, the approach is different. Kapucine presents herself as a cousin who will make them unwind the pelota of their memories thanks to post-war attire, old postcards, or song lyrics. We thus create a connection that allows us to generate an exchange and bring out emotions, “says Valérie. “The feedback is very positive from the healthcare team. “
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“What I offer people above all is sharing”
This long-matured project, nourished by her experience as a kindergarten teacher and enriched thanks to a bachelor’s degree in psychology, was still “refined” while the confinement lasted. “The clown is an archaic body which, by its colors, its voice values the other. On stage too, Kapucine seeks and finds his audience, solo thanks to a collaboration with the company of the Théâtre à dire in Thionville or a duet in Luxembourg. “I am constantly in creativity. “A creativity that, once again, has its roots in kindergarten classes and that it grows ever further. “When I’m a clown, what I offer people above all is sharing. “
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