[Music]
hi everyone my name is shanece and i am
the founder of the clown troupe la
Mariposa borracho which is a drawing
butterfly in Spanish so I’m here today
with my troupe members to do a
demonstration
I’m sorry um excuse me can I borrow your
phone please just can you unlock it I
think maybe they are in the toilet I
just I hope you don’t mind I make a
phone call
sorry guys sorry it just just passed
just pass the time Thanks
oh god that’s me I’m really sorry about
this I really good it’s my boss
sorry about that hello met SHINee’s
you’re looking great up there we were
supposed to do the demonstration like no
but troupe members yeah yeah can you can
you come up please
oh god okay give me a second um hold
this hold this
Oh take care of this to you thank you so
much um part of me so sorry hey sorry
about that
excuse me hey nice dress sorry pardon me
oh really really making a mess of things
oh wow okay hi everyone my name is
Denise and I’m the founder of the clown
troupe la Mariposa Bharata and today I’m
here with my troupe members met and
where’s our me okay um sorry have you
seen someone like this tall I think was
he here today Tech Shanice yes not here
I don’t think he’s coming
what army isn’t here oh do you think we
should call him
ah you know what just forget him we’re
just gonna move on let’s just go okay
sorry everyone
you try again okay hi everyone my name
is shanece and I am the founder of the
clown any longer
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
I mean hi everyone and I am the founder
of the clown truth Lama reportable Rocha
and I’m here today to really talk to you
about the role of play and why that is
important in changing our mental space
[Music]
let’s do number five twelve six hey 50
to one
I mean
I’m sorry guys I’m so sorry this you are
you doing okay so this is for me in 2017
Mariposa Bharata has been all over the
world going to places such as New York
Paris Cairo
London Beijing oh that’s me with my best
friend Tony hosting nothing but I mean I
think they were here too we were
supposed to do a TEDx talk and I think
they wanted us to do something you know
a little more intellectual you know
serious intellectual serious I can do
intellectual serious let’s do it okay
technology
innovation creativity this wireless mic
that all connect speakers use to look
legit proficiency professionalism
productivity 38 Oxley Road things that
are the minds of Singaporeans today
innovators and citizens on the ground
alike but here today ladies gentlemen
here you might think that I have an
answer for you but I don’t I have a
question and that question is cloud
theater so what is cloud theater I love
in the middle of a TED talk I was
supposed to talk about cloud theater you
yeah yeah did you read the email
yeah Matt do you have the email I have
the email who it’s right here can you
read the email
yeah yeah you read the email oh I can
read email Chinese I’m sorry can we can
we please remove this off stage okay
it’s not part of this show let me read
the email to you okay that’s a how did
he answer her phone her religion in
Tracy yen Oh
English oh I’m sorry
global city you know English okay hello
everyone today is the beautiful windy
and sunny day don’t forget your roots we
write to you on behalf of TEDx prickling
Street to invite your wonderful
performance troupe to be a part of our
innovative and intellectual session of
sharing of ideas at the Arts and Science
Museum due to your work in clowning and
dance we would be especially honored if
a representative of your truth well
SHINee Stanislas speaker now event we
look forward to your event best regards
TEDx
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
well so I care a lot about our mental
spaces especially in situations that
cause a lot of stress and anxiety whoo
and a pet hog is one of them I mean with
a TED talk you know there’s a lot of
pressure to deliver an idea with finesse
something intellectual impressive
enriching a desire to perform well and
in thinking of all that I got really
scared then I would say the wrong thing
because I set up the thing of all the
mistakes I would make given this
opportunity naturally but clowning is
about being able to fail and to play
with the endless possibilities of how we
might fail so I didn’t always start off
as a clown I said as a performer in
dance and theater in Singapore and then
later on working internationally in New
York and Spain and for me I always loved
performing I started off as childhood
passion where I would go on playing
pretend imaginative games in my head
right that okay
however I also suffer from massive stage
fright and anxiety so every time before
I go on stage or even a rehearsal I
would get serious panic attacks gastric
reflux and even sweaty palms so after a
while I knew as playing in childhood
performing became associated with stress
and anxiety and it’s true as we get
older we have more at stake you know
exams job interviews business decisions
we tend to assume these different roles
and identities like mother someone’s
child CEO Minister that has high
pressure accompany to each role that we
kind of have
so what we know as a child of playing an
instrument or even playing a sport or
even playing a role
it becomes an activity of high pressure
like achieving grades or success I value
play a lot because when we were young we
were encouraged to play it helped us to
grow our imagination while developing
our creativity dexterity and physical
cognitive and emotional strength play
helped us to build confidence it helped
us to take risk and build resilience so
that we get ready to face our world and
master our world and I valued this a lot
because I work with over a hundred
children every year in Singapore and in
Cambodia and I teach them dance Yoda and
the Zumba Kids program and one thing I
noticed is that as I teach kids who are
generally getting older the level of
enthusiasm decreases because they have
become too self-conscious and afraid to
take risks and try something new so this
idea of growing up and losing our sense
of play really worries me because the
fear accompanied by these societal
pressures to perform can be stifling and
it can be dangerous a lot of this high
pressure has evolved into the rise of
that mental health issues such as the
rise of anxiety and depression so I hope
you don’t mind but I’m gonna quote some
statistics very fast according to the
Institute of Mental Health one in 17
people suffer from major depressive
disorders in their lifetime and while
it’s one thing for the statistics to
prove this phenomena it’s another to see
it as a lived experience or even witness
it cripple and take away the life of
someone you love very much so of course
I care about this and I want to change
this I want to relook at how we can
change our mental spaces and systems
that perpetuate these bad mental health
habits
so here I am today when my friends to
propose a journey a journey of laughter
because I believe in facing this problem
of societal pressures to perform we need
to relook again a childlike play and joy
so that we can create safer spaces for
our minds to take risks and achieve all
the things that we wanted to do as
children why is that important you don’t
know okay
as a creator it’s a bit cliche but it’s
true I believe that each individual is
unique and I believe that if we can
nurture and unlock each person’s
individuality we would be able to create
healthier Minds in a community of people
who feel free to express themselves
without fear of failure or judgment we
do that as children and toddlers but we
kind of stop when we get older so where
I come from which is the Performing Arts
world the industries are very demanding
one it looks for certain bits certain
kinds of bodies certain kinds of looks
so for many dancers out there you know
there’s this fear to get injured or even
fall sick so they put this high pressure
on themselves to perform that the
mindset towards performing sometimes
becomes toxic and unhealthy and I went
through a similar phase in my life when
I became chronically ill and I thought
my dance career had died so it’s been
dramatic and I wanted to do a retirement
show I know right so young and so I
decided to do one last spectacular
showcase and in the process I wanted to
change the way we chose performance in
an industry and change the way we create
performances and I was inspired by this
with my work also as a Zumba instructor
where I get to work with a lot of people
who love to express themself through
dance but who are not necessarily
professional performance they just like
dancing so they danced more like private
spaces like in their home or in a just
dance marathon or in a public Zumba
class in the height at the
and I wanted to be able to showcase this
idea of letting go through dance so I
started to cast cast members anyone who
is kind of willing to dance beside me
like a public Zumba class and I used
clowning as a rule where the
fundamentals of play was key so the rule
is simple the more mistakes you make the
better as long as you have fun
performing to your own standards the
audience would have pleasure watching
you and as you saw on stage it is very
fulfilling to watch someone just express
themselves and their authentic City
coming alive it’s just so pleasurable to
watch so I thought wow okay what did we
take this out of the performing arts
world and we move it to real life how
can we create more spaces like that
whether individual feels free to express
themselves while we still can
embrace the individual’s vulnerability
so I went a lot around looking you know
in my community see if anyone else was
thinking along the same lines and I came
across this group called the crown
doctors from clown dr. Singapore and
they’re here today and what they do is
they bring humor and therapy to the
stick and I think it’s wonderful because
being sick doesn’t just take a toll on
your body it takes a toll on your mind
and so they bring play they bring humor
they bring laughter to empower their
patients even through their sufferings
so I thought okay what have we built on
this kind of work and we move back to
the individual so I’m delivering my
draft speech to the TEDx organizer and
she asked me oh what if I’m a pretty
happy and balanced person how can I
still use this philosophy in my life
right it’s a good question regardless
life is going to be unpredictable and
the ability to approach our struggles
through play it’s the ability to connect
with something that we cannot control
and be content with it so what does it
mean to make a mistake we made so many
up here my drops you know
starline’s we don’t know what we’re
doing how can we go into our lives or
even a pressurizing situation like a
TEDx talk and predict all the different
ways to fail and be content with it in
the system that berates failure
pressures an individual to be scared to
make mistakes I think we can never truly
nurture anyone’s individuality instead
we enable fear to grow and we lose our
sense of humor because we have become
too hard on ourselves especially in
difficult situations so what if we go
back to the individual strip away
performing to just being able to play
perhaps in playing with our mistakes
there’s really no such thing as a
mistake because of our ability to bring
humor to it and if we start with that in
our thought process maybe we can reduce
this high pressure to perform and in the
bigger picture prevent a situation where
someone else think that their lives or
their selves are mistakes as an artist I
always aim to bring out each person’s
unique individuality but beyond that if
we can see ourselves in that way maybe
we can create within ourself the ability
to approach struggle through play and to
learn to accept ourselves and our others
in our mistakes and if we start with
that maybe we can become more authentic
individuals being able to give back to
this world more fully and whatever field
of study or profession we may be in
thank you everyone
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
hi everyone my name is shanece and i am
the founder of the clown troupe la
Mariposa borracho which is a drawing
butterfly in Spanish so I’m here today
with my troupe members to do a
demonstration
I’m sorry um excuse me can I borrow your
phone please just can you unlock it I
think maybe they are in the toilet I
just I hope you don’t mind I make a
phone call
sorry guys sorry it just just passed
just pass the time Thanks
oh god that’s me I’m really sorry about
this I really good it’s my boss
sorry about that hello met SHINee’s
you’re looking great up there we were
supposed to do the demonstration like no
but troupe members yeah yeah can you can
you come up please
oh god okay give me a second um hold
this hold this
Oh take care of this to you thank you so
much um part of me so sorry hey sorry
about that
excuse me hey nice dress sorry pardon me
oh really really making a mess of things
oh wow okay hi everyone my name is
Denise and I’m the founder of the clown
troupe la Mariposa Bharata and today I’m
here with my troupe members met and
where’s our me okay um sorry have you
seen someone like this tall I think was
he here today Tech Shanice yes not here
I don’t think he’s coming
what army isn’t here oh do you think we
should call him
ah you know what just forget him we’re
just gonna move on let’s just go okay
sorry everyone
you try again okay hi everyone my name
is shanece and I am the founder of the
clown any longer
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
I mean hi everyone and I am the founder
of the clown truth Lama reportable Rocha
and I’m here today to really talk to you
about the role of play and why that is
important in changing our mental space
[Music]
let’s do number five twelve six hey 50
to one
I mean
I’m sorry guys I’m so sorry this you are
you doing okay so this is for me in 2017
Mariposa Bharata has been all over the
world going to places such as New York
Paris Cairo
London Beijing oh that’s me with my best
friend Tony hosting nothing but I mean I
think they were here too we were
supposed to do a TEDx talk and I think
they wanted us to do something you know
a little more intellectual you know
serious intellectual serious I can do
intellectual serious let’s do it okay
technology
innovation creativity this wireless mic
that all connect speakers use to look
legit proficiency professionalism
productivity 38 Oxley Road things that
are the minds of Singaporeans today
innovators and citizens on the ground
alike but here today ladies gentlemen
here you might think that I have an
answer for you but I don’t I have a
question and that question is cloud
theater so what is cloud theater I love
in the middle of a TED talk I was
supposed to talk about cloud theater you
yeah yeah did you read the email
yeah Matt do you have the email I have
the email who it’s right here can you
read the email
yeah yeah you read the email oh I can
read email Chinese I’m sorry can we can
we please remove this off stage okay
it’s not part of this show let me read
the email to you okay that’s a how did
he answer her phone her religion in
Tracy yen Oh
English oh I’m sorry
global city you know English okay hello
everyone today is the beautiful windy
and sunny day don’t forget your roots we
write to you on behalf of TEDx prickling
Street to invite your wonderful
performance troupe to be a part of our
innovative and intellectual session of
sharing of ideas at the Arts and Science
Museum due to your work in clowning and
dance we would be especially honored if
a representative of your truth well
SHINee Stanislas speaker now event we
look forward to your event best regards
TEDx
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
well so I care a lot about our mental
spaces especially in situations that
cause a lot of stress and anxiety whoo
and a pet hog is one of them I mean with
a TED talk you know there’s a lot of
pressure to deliver an idea with finesse
something intellectual impressive
enriching a desire to perform well and
in thinking of all that I got really
scared then I would say the wrong thing
because I set up the thing of all the
mistakes I would make given this
opportunity naturally but clowning is
about being able to fail and to play
with the endless possibilities of how we
might fail so I didn’t always start off
as a clown I said as a performer in
dance and theater in Singapore and then
later on working internationally in New
York and Spain and for me I always loved
performing I started off as childhood
passion where I would go on playing
pretend imaginative games in my head
right that okay
however I also suffer from massive stage
fright and anxiety so every time before
I go on stage or even a rehearsal I
would get serious panic attacks gastric
reflux and even sweaty palms so after a
while I knew as playing in childhood
performing became associated with stress
and anxiety and it’s true as we get
older we have more at stake you know
exams job interviews business decisions
we tend to assume these different roles
and identities like mother someone’s
child CEO Minister that has high
pressure accompany to each role that we
kind of have
so what we know as a child of playing an
instrument or even playing a sport or
even playing a role
it becomes an activity of high pressure
like achieving grades or success I value
play a lot because when we were young we
were encouraged to play it helped us to
grow our imagination while developing
our creativity dexterity and physical
cognitive and emotional strength play
helped us to build confidence it helped
us to take risk and build resilience so
that we get ready to face our world and
master our world and I valued this a lot
because I work with over a hundred
children every year in Singapore and in
Cambodia and I teach them dance Yoda and
the Zumba Kids program and one thing I
noticed is that as I teach kids who are
generally getting older the level of
enthusiasm decreases because they have
become too self-conscious and afraid to
take risks and try something new so this
idea of growing up and losing our sense
of play really worries me because the
fear accompanied by these societal
pressures to perform can be stifling and
it can be dangerous a lot of this high
pressure has evolved into the rise of
that mental health issues such as the
rise of anxiety and depression so I hope
you don’t mind but I’m gonna quote some
statistics very fast according to the
Institute of Mental Health one in 17
people suffer from major depressive
disorders in their lifetime and while
it’s one thing for the statistics to
prove this phenomena it’s another to see
it as a lived experience or even witness
it cripple and take away the life of
someone you love very much so of course
I care about this and I want to change
this I want to relook at how we can
change our mental spaces and systems
that perpetuate these bad mental health
habits
so here I am today when my friends to
propose a journey a journey of laughter
because I believe in facing this problem
of societal pressures to perform we need
to relook again a childlike play and joy
so that we can create safer spaces for
our minds to take risks and achieve all
the things that we wanted to do as
children why is that important you don’t
know okay
as a creator it’s a bit cliche but it’s
true I believe that each individual is
unique and I believe that if we can
nurture and unlock each person’s
individuality we would be able to create
healthier Minds in a community of people
who feel free to express themselves
without fear of failure or judgment we
do that as children and toddlers but we
kind of stop when we get older so where
I come from which is the Performing Arts
world the industries are very demanding
one it looks for certain bits certain
kinds of bodies certain kinds of looks
so for many dancers out there you know
there’s this fear to get injured or even
fall sick so they put this high pressure
on themselves to perform that the
mindset towards performing sometimes
becomes toxic and unhealthy and I went
through a similar phase in my life when
I became chronically ill and I thought
my dance career had died so it’s been
dramatic and I wanted to do a retirement
show I know right so young and so I
decided to do one last spectacular
showcase and in the process I wanted to
change the way we chose performance in
an industry and change the way we create
performances and I was inspired by this
with my work also as a Zumba instructor
where I get to work with a lot of people
who love to express themself through
dance but who are not necessarily
professional performance they just like
dancing so they danced more like private
spaces like in their home or in a just
dance marathon or in a public Zumba
class in the height at the
and I wanted to be able to showcase this
idea of letting go through dance so I
started to cast cast members anyone who
is kind of willing to dance beside me
like a public Zumba class and I used
clowning as a rule where the
fundamentals of play was key so the rule
is simple the more mistakes you make the
better as long as you have fun
performing to your own standards the
audience would have pleasure watching
you and as you saw on stage it is very
fulfilling to watch someone just express
themselves and their authentic City
coming alive it’s just so pleasurable to
watch so I thought wow okay what did we
take this out of the performing arts
world and we move it to real life how
can we create more spaces like that
whether individual feels free to express
themselves while we still can
embrace the individual’s vulnerability
so I went a lot around looking you know
in my community see if anyone else was
thinking along the same lines and I came
across this group called the crown
doctors from clown dr. Singapore and
they’re here today and what they do is
they bring humor and therapy to the
stick and I think it’s wonderful because
being sick doesn’t just take a toll on
your body it takes a toll on your mind
and so they bring play they bring humor
they bring laughter to empower their
patients even through their sufferings
so I thought okay what have we built on
this kind of work and we move back to
the individual so I’m delivering my
draft speech to the TEDx organizer and
she asked me oh what if I’m a pretty
happy and balanced person how can I
still use this philosophy in my life
right it’s a good question regardless
life is going to be unpredictable and
the ability to approach our struggles
through play it’s the ability to connect
with something that we cannot control
and be content with it so what does it
mean to make a mistake we made so many
up here my drops you know
starline’s we don’t know what we’re
doing how can we go into our lives or
even a pressurizing situation like a
TEDx talk and predict all the different
ways to fail and be content with it in
the system that berates failure
pressures an individual to be scared to
make mistakes I think we can never truly
nurture anyone’s individuality instead
we enable fear to grow and we lose our
sense of humor because we have become
too hard on ourselves especially in
difficult situations so what if we go
back to the individual strip away
performing to just being able to play
perhaps in playing with our mistakes
there’s really no such thing as a
mistake because of our ability to bring
humor to it and if we start with that in
our thought process maybe we can reduce
this high pressure to perform and in the
bigger picture prevent a situation where
someone else think that their lives or
their selves are mistakes as an artist I
always aim to bring out each person’s
unique individuality but beyond that if
we can see ourselves in that way maybe
we can create within ourself the ability
to approach struggle through play and to
learn to accept ourselves and our others
in our mistakes and if we start with
that maybe we can become more authentic
individuals being able to give back to
this world more fully and whatever field
of study or profession we may be in
thank you everyone
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
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