C-TALK SERIES by award-winning writer / director/ creator, Stefan Haves organized on 29th August 2018 students have learned various life skills and interacted with him. Stefan Haves is an award winning Writer / Director / Creator working for Cirque du Soleil, Stefinity Entertainment, Inc., Disney Creative Entertainment, and Independent Production Companies worldwide. Haves was plucked by Cirque du Soleil in 2006 as a Comic Act Designer and Story Consultant. Soon after, he began discovering talent as a Casting Partner, and conducted Master Classes in which he inspired, energized, and integrated acting technique with the Casts globally. In the U.S., he has collaborated with such performers as Joan Baez, Val Kilmer and Tim Robbins. He has earned a reputation as a dynamic Speaker, conducting innovative Workshops Internationally. In India, he held a residency at the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar, spoke at the Bombay Stock Exchange, and appeared on Bloomberg Television. His first book, ‘Cirque-it,’ is coming out this Fall which celebrates universal creativity for all through the perspective of the circus.
In his Innovate workshop he spoke on the following subjects
Subjects covered are team cooperation, fostering endless creativity, prioritizing humor and beauty, and managing the stress of production by digging deep into one’s own imagination, trusting intuition, and striving to fulfill personal artistic and dream-inspired passions regardless of vocation.
Subject 1:
CIRQUE-IT!
“Life is a Circus! Are you a ‘Spectator or a true ‘Participant’ in this show called ‘Life?’ Using the back drop of the Cirque du Soleil ‘Big-Top,’ and his years collaborating on Creative Teams, Stefan Haves chronicles the key ‘Take–Away’ successes and ‘Pit-Fall’ challenges building mammoth shows with this globally recognized topflight company.
Subject 2: RINGMASTER POISE IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
‘Energized Serenity – Techniques of Persuasive Speaking!’ An audience never wants you to fail. Yet, your own anxiety can make you think otherwise as a Public Speaker or when presenting a report to a large or small crowd. Let’s change that. Stefan Haves, Hollywood Acting Coach in Film and Television for thirty years, and Cirque du Soleil’s Comic Act Designer and Performance Master Teacher leads Participants through a shared vocabulary tutorial and practical
techniques to combat the universal fear of public scrutiny and demons of self-doubt. Speaking Session included Audience Participation.
Subject 3:
INTEGRATING FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE WORK PLACE:
A ‘Cirque’ Perspective
‘It begins with breath’ Such ‘Feminine Paradigms’ as Dream-Infused Beauty, Sensitivity, Romance and Intuitional Trust was birthed by Cirque du Soleil thirty years ago in Montreal, Canada and has since been witnessed by over 40 million Spectators worldwide. The ‘Cirque’ aesthetic disrupted a masculine circus tradition of trained Animals, garishly made-up Clowns, and showcasing the brawn and grit of Acrobats and Aerialists. Cirque du Soleil gently introduced the notion of not ‘What’ a Company can do in terms of an ‘Exhale’ of elite physical prowess, but ‘How’ to touch the hearts of many with music, accessible
• Pre-production free flow of ideas,
• Production ‘out of the box’innovations,
• A joyful team environment, fostering open communication and imagination manifestation.
Learn techniques and modalities for Individuals to harness a personal positive, high morale by nurturing the Artist within. Grant yourself permission to succeed through the satisfaction of rightsized yet jubilant expectations. In Cirque du Soleil, all departments must work together, creatively flexible, and actually turn time and resource limitations into genius artistic choices all catalyzed by the infinite engine of creativity.
Subject 4: LIMITLESS’CIRQUE’ CREATIVITY
‘Trust the High Wire of Imagination’. Through a case study of the globally esteemed Cirque du Soleil, witness how a team can achieve success through a very tense, high-stakes environment keeping alive:
To chase failure, creating a series of obstacles from which he may or may not succeed. The Clown publicly discovers comfort and solace in the sharing of scrutinized vulnerability, painful mortality, and intricate calamity. Shunning isolation, the Clown dares a cynical crowd to join him through empathetic channels on his plight of reckless fiascos – This, for the Clown, is comic gold. How can we learn from this brazen, brave, sensitive soul for ourselves in our work and life?
Subject 5: CHASING FAILURE The courage to change culture. “By blood a king, in heart a clown.’
characters, an elegant refinement and that femininely inclusive ‘Inhale.’