2025 CLASSES
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About the structure of Clown Classes:
Clown has become an enormous area of interest and has grown tremendously in recent years.
In response, I am coordinating 3 tiers of training offering levels that support you along the way:
Intro to Clown: This level is for first timers and can be repeated at will. If you just dipped your toe in and want to get more comfortable, jump in again and again! All levels welcome.
Clown for All: If you have not taken clown before, please start with Intro to Clown.
This level is the relentless search for play. The exercises are tailored to the group and will lean deeper into the poetry of what makes you funny. A heartening place to find your freedom, learn the ease of making ruckus, and stretch out into a state of discovery. This class can be repeated forever!
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Clown Studio: This level will focus on the art of clown and creation of work.
The trainings will be curated through an application process.
Clown for All Weekend
May 31 & June 1, 2025
Saturday & Sunday
10am – 5pm
Tuition: $250
In Clown, we embark on the wondrous journey to rediscover innocence and uncover the
pleasure of play. It is a daring adventure, in which we open our fragile hearts in search of fun.
The little red nose (the smallest mask) is a great liberator. It requires generosity and summons
transparency, revealing our wonderful and complicated simplicity.
A riotous inquiry . . . a playful encounter . . . a look at our laughable & loveable selves.
We love clowns because they make us laugh while revealing the range of mythical and
emotional archetypes within each one of us.
To find your clown is to tap into your own, personal source of spontaneous
expressiveness and to experience the pleasure of play.
The honesty and openness we find in clown will follow us everywhere we go.
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Clown for All: This level is the relentless search for play. The exercises are tailored to the group and will lean deeper into the poetry of what makes you funny. A heartening place to find your freedom, learn the ease of making ruckus, and stretch out into a state of discovery. This class can be repeated forever! If you have not taken clown before, please start with Intro to Clown.
Ages 21 or over
Click red button to register for Clown for All and Pay Now to pay.
$75 deposit due with registration (non-refundable)
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5-day trainings
10am – 5pm daily (lunch 1-2pm)
Wednesday - Sunday
Tuition: $600/1 session $1100/2 sessions
Neutral Mask
July 9 – 13
Wednesday - Sunday
10am - 5pm
Tuition: $600
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Generating energy, size and presence, mask work guides us to eliminate habitual patterns,
encouraging clarity of movement and a greater command of stillness.
In neutral mask we learn to play the rhythms of life, to silence the excess noise, to become an
environment upon which we reflect the poetics of the natural world.
The neutral mask is an educational tool tapping the inherent dynamic wisdom of the body as a
vehicle to find freedom, awareness, and expression.
It is a foundation and point of reference for building all character.
A full-face mask that you wear through a series of exercises, the mask engages a large space
and beckons you to expand your presence.
Grappling with the properties of spatial awareness, the mask is used to eliminate superfluous
action and to distill movement down to essential rhythms.
It encourages clarity of movement, a greater command of stillness, and provides a clear slate
upon which we inscribe character. Neutral means ready urging you to:
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broaden your play
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heighten your spatial awareness
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free your body to respond without the control of the mind
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support and develop your physical abilities
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Pushing us to our growing edge, the mask guides us into a dialogue with our habits arriving at
the truth through essential gesture.
There are 3 masks:
the one we think we are,
the one we really are,
and the one we hold in common.
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Open to all levels. Click red button to register for Neutral Mask. Click Pay Now to pay.
$100 deposit due with registration (non-refundable)
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SUMMER INTENSIVES 2025
Art of Collaboration
July 30 – August 3
Wednesday - Sunday
10am - 5pm
Tuition: $600
The class will work from the roots of classical pantomime and proceed to a fast-paced style of gestural language that develops both micro and macro image building. Working on a reduced playing area, these techniques will be applied to collaborative storytelling through the adaptation of myths, fables and movies. Working without props, using only movement and sound, this strong ensemble training will develop your physical and creative imagination while delivering the spatial awareness of how to tell a story in inventive new ways.
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Open to all levels. Click red button to register for Art of Collaboration. Click Pay Now to pay.
$100 deposit due with registration (non-refundable)