Fall apart in our back yard...
Join us for the Second First Ever Annual
Big Upstate Clown and Move Around
Weekend Retreat!
Friday November 1st - Sunday November 3rd
After the wild, soft joy of last year’s retreat, we’re more excited than ever for our second upstate gathering! Work with Christopher Bayes (Clown and what not), Annie Piper (Body, Breath, Heart: Energy Practice for Actors), and Annelise Lawson (Pagan Open Mike) over November 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the North American Cultural Laboratory in Highland Lake, NY.
Meet us in beautiful upstate New York this fall (less than two hours from the GWB) for a weekend intensive of movement, play, and audacity. Stay in a charming old boarding house! Work in an old church by a lake! Spend a few days with some Master Teachers from The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale (formally The Yale School of Drama)!
Where we'll be working!
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Where we'll be staying!
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Take a breath, eat some yummy food, get a little bit pagan, and surprise yourself! Space is limited, so sign up now to save your spot.
Arrive on the evening of Friday the 1st for dinner, then jump into class the next morning. Head back to the city on Sunday the 3rd all nice and unwound from your wild weekend mess around.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided onsite at NACL, including dinner on the evening of the 1st. Accommodation options include single rooms, shared rooms at NACL, or local housing. Rooms at NACL and all meals are included in tuition. If you would prefer to find local housing and/or your own accommodations outside of NACL, tuition covers class fees and meals.
Arrive on the evening of Friday the 1st for dinner, then jump into class the next morning. Head back to the city on Sunday the 3rd all nice and unwound from your wild weekend mess around.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided onsite at NACL, including dinner on the evening of the 1st. Accommodation options include single rooms, shared rooms at NACL, or local housing. Rooms at NACL and all meals are included in tuition. If you would prefer to find local housing and/or your own accommodations outside of NACL, tuition covers class fees and meals.
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Schedule:
Friday Before 7pm: Arrival 7pm: Welcome Dinner at NACL Saturday 8am: Breakfast 10am-12pm: Body, Breath, Heart with Annie Piper 12pm-1pm: Lunch 1pm-5pm: Clown and Whatnot with Christopher Bayes 6pm: Dinner 7pm-10pm: Pagan Open Mic with Annelise Lawson Sunday 8am: Breakfast 10am-12pm: Body, Breath, Heart with Annie Piper 12pm-1pm: Lunch 1pm-5pm: Clown and Whatnot with Christopher Bayes 5pm: Departure |
Tuition Options: Private room, Meals and Classes: $650 Shared room, Meals and Classes: $575 Meals and Classes. No Housing: $475 |
Where the heck are all these shenanigans gonna be
goin' on?
goin' on?
The North American Cultural Laboratory
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110 Highland Lake Rd, Highland Lake, NY
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Click here for Driving Directions (and then scroll to the bottom of the page) Click here for Bus Info Train: Penn Station to Port Jervis on the Bergen Line (New Jersey Transit) - requires changing trains in Seacaucus, NJ Click here for more info on NACL |
And who the heck is running this thingamajig anyway?
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Christopher Bayes (Founder of The Pandemonium Studio)
began his theater career with the internationally acclaimed Theatre de la Jeune Lune where he worked for five years as an actor, director, composer, designer and artistic associate. In 1989 he joined the acting company of the Guthrie Theater where he appeared in over twenty productions. His roles included Caliban inThe Tempest, Edgar in King Lear, The Herald in Marat/Sade and Harlequin in Triumph of Love. In 1993, commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming based on Heinrich Boll’s novel The Clown. ...More |
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Annie Piper
teaches at Kula Yoga in Tribeca, The Shala and Prema Yoga in Brooklyn. She is on the movement faculty at NYU's Tisch School of Graduate Acting and The Yale School of Drama. She is the co- teacher of 'The Open Voice' with Jessie Austrian at NYU's Gallatin School. She is certified to teach trauma-sensitive yoga by both the Trauma Center in Boston and with the national organization Warriors at Ease, and continues to bring yoga to veterans throughout the New York area. ...More |
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Annelise Lawson (Co-Founder and Director of Administration and Enrollment) is an actress and director. After first studying with Christopher Bayes at the Yale School of Drama, she’s since collaborated with him both in the rehearsal room and out – training with him as a teacher’s apprentice and going on to become a founding member of The Pandemonium Studio.
As a teacher, Annelise’s work focuses on developing technique and style through students’ personal sense of fun. Her areas of expertise include Clown, Commedia dell’arte, and the Russian Étude method – an improvisatorial rehearsal tool designed unleash an actor’s imagination into the world of the text. ...More |
To ask questions, email [email protected]
