Class Descriptions
Clown For All
It’s a complete disaster of fun and chaos…. Everyone's invited! Exercises will be tailored to each individual's level and built to encourage both discovery and continuing growth – encouraging the new and provoking the veterans simultaneously. We will surely illuminate something elusive and rare: the comic world (with great peals of laughter)! Admission is open to all students – both veterans and first-timers.
Clown
Jump into your body....Open like a little flower....Rediscover your playful spirit and the simple
pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance. We will pursue the Clown together in all of its
messy and hilarious beauty. Your relationship to all other forms of drama will be enriched by the
openness and reckless abandon that the Clown requires.
pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance. We will pursue the Clown together in all of its
messy and hilarious beauty. Your relationship to all other forms of drama will be enriched by the
openness and reckless abandon that the Clown requires.
Advanced Clown
After the clowns are discovered, they can begin to make a mess in gleeful pandemonium and go
on to find their names and explore triumph and tragedy. Prerequisite: Clown.
on to find their names and explore triumph and tragedy. Prerequisite: Clown.
Extra Super Advanced Clown
Name? Check. Costume? Check. Put on the greatest trick in the world, make work with other
Clowns, and face that greatest of Clown challenges...the dreaded flop. Prerequisite: Advanced
Clown.
Clowns, and face that greatest of Clown challenges...the dreaded flop. Prerequisite: Advanced
Clown.
Acting as Play
A Clown-based Scene Study class?? You got that right bucko!!
Harness the Clown’s relentless pursuit of fun in order to take big risks before feeling “ready”; get out of your brain and into your body; embrace the precarious pleasure of not needing to know what’s coming next; and most importantly, to lead with hope regardless of the inevitable disasters laid out in the text! Using a mix of clown exercises and scene work, Acting As Play will strengthen the student’s ability to listen; to play without shame; to be generous with others and themselves; and, ultimately, to fully embrace each individuals Empathic Vulnerability - the ability to fully see another, while being fully seen by another, while remaining open to the possibility of being changed.
Harness the Clown’s relentless pursuit of fun in order to take big risks before feeling “ready”; get out of your brain and into your body; embrace the precarious pleasure of not needing to know what’s coming next; and most importantly, to lead with hope regardless of the inevitable disasters laid out in the text! Using a mix of clown exercises and scene work, Acting As Play will strengthen the student’s ability to listen; to play without shame; to be generous with others and themselves; and, ultimately, to fully embrace each individuals Empathic Vulnerability - the ability to fully see another, while being fully seen by another, while remaining open to the possibility of being changed.
Shakespeare as Play
Shakespeare as Play is a physical acting and ensemble-based course combining clown and heightened text. We'll work on Shakespeare’s most explosive scenes, supported throughout by clown, ensemble games and exercises! You’ll discover how to use text work to build a personal and accessible road-map through heightened text, and support your discoveries with reckless abandon and a huge appetite for fun. Learn to unleash the theatrical potential of Shakespeare’s text through fully-activated, happy, and hungry bodies.
Improv with Ralf!
Sign up for Pandemonium’s Improv with Ralf! Discover an approach to improv comedy that will fill your pants with giddiness and your heart with wonder! Eliminate that pesky, stinky pressure to be a genius, and instead find freedom in your magnificent dumbness! Unlock a playfulness and collaboration so honest, so personal, so beautifully stupid, that it inspires cascades of real, snorting, quivering, gut-busting, belly laughs! You will make people laugh til they snort! And you will tell them, “I heard you snort!” Take Improv With Ralf!
