CLASSES
SUMMER INTENSIVES 2 0 2 4
June 24-28 NEUTRAL MASK
July 15 - 19 LARVAL MASK
August 5 - 9 SUMMER DAY CAMP FOR CLOWNS!
5-day trainings
10am – 5pm daily
$660/1 session; $1200/2 sessions; $1600/all 3 sessions
CLOWN is $100/day or $400 for all 5 days
NEUTRAL MASK (equivalent to Comprehensive 1 Program)
June 24 - 28
Monday - Friday
10am – 5pm (Lunch break 1 - 2pm)
Tuition: $660; Deposit: of $100 due with registration
Deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. Balance due before start of class.
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
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.
Open to all levels. Click red button to register for Neutral Mask. Click black button to pay.
LARVAL MASK
July 15 - 19
Monday - Friday
10am – 5pm (Lunch break 1 - 2pm)
Tuition: $660; Deposit: of $100 due with registration
Deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. Balance due before start of class.
Larval masks are large, simplified masks, which have not quite resolved themselves into realistic
human features. They are brought to life through rhythm, breath, and the architecture of the
performers body. These compelling characters celebrate the human condition with
compassion, humor, and poetry.
The masks originate from the annual Fasnacht festival in Basel, Switzerland. Jacques Lecoq
introduced them into his training in the 1960’s as larval masks, (larvae: immature form).
He envisioned how these characters in their rudimentary states could be used to strengthen
physical aptitude, ignite imagination, and distill human interaction.
This workshop will inspire you to physicalize language and expand your own creative process.
We will dress them up, create scenarios, and build work that reveals the heart and innocence of
simple everyday situations.
Open to all levels. Click red button to register for Larval Mask. Click black button to pay.
SUMMER DAY CAMP FOR CLOWNS!!
August 5 - 9
Monday - Friday
10am – 5pm (Lunch break 1 - 2pm)
Tuition: $100/day or $400 for all 5 days* Deposit due with registration $100
Deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. Balance due before start of class.
Pack your gear, show up, meet every fresh morning with new ideas, camp out for the
week or come when you can, make a mess, sing a song, do a trick, build a routine, discover
some joy or a new sparkly dimension of you! Join in the unrelenting search for fun,
transparency, openness, and perhaps even a place of calm!
WHAAAAT?? Five days of people coming and going?
Yup! I’m gonna meet this world of giddy-up-and-go full on!
Bring it. I’m here. We’ll look for material and fall on our faces and get up and do it again.
It’s a big summertime, fun-town adventure!
Open to all levels.
*Full days only ⇢ no partial days allowed.
Open to adults 18+ years.
Click red button to register for Clown Camp. Click black button to pay.