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Don't fear the clown
Philippe Gaulier graduates speak of his peculiar methods
&# BY BRYONY SHIPSTON
In Etampes, 30 miles outside of Paris, the revered clown Philippe Gaulier has spent 35 years teaching performers how to abandon their inhibitions and access beauty.
Alumni include Emma Thompson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter and, as of a month ago, stand-up Alexis Dubus.
If you read about Gaulier, you will find accounts of this 'Zen-master in Dilbert suspenders' frustrating, insulting and inspiring his students with a regime that falls somewhere between absurd and totalitarian.
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So what would induce anyone to put themselves through Ecole Gaulier?
'I'm always up for something that's a bit challenging, I actually think it's really important for performers to do that,' says Dubus. 'I'd just got myself on to this lovely festival circuit where I was doing Edinburgh and then the Australian festivals, skipping winter in England.
I wanted to go back to the days of discovering