Fall Class Descriptions and Pricing
Early Bird Special! $25 off if you register before August 25th.
Plus, another $10 off if you register for multiple classes at the same time!
Clown For All Weekend!
with Christopher Bayes (and Clown For All WEST with Annelise Lawson)
Jump into your body....Open like a little flower....Rediscover your playful spirit, as well as the simple pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance.
In this weekend workshop, we pursue the clown together in all of its messy and hilarious beauty. Take bold risks full of audacity; make a big noise, sing your little heart out! Let's have some fun! We'll welcome the newbies and provoke the old timers simultaneously, with exercises tailored to the folks in the room. Let’s find out what is funny about you!
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$300 ($225 for Clown for All WEST)
Acting as Play: Grad School Edition
with Gabriel Levey
In this 6 week course (which includes a free one on one coaching session on Zoom), 8 people will have the opportunity to work with Pandemonium co-founder and faculty member Gabriel Levey on their audition monologues.
The course will start with an open discussion about the graduate school audition process and why the pleasure of the performer is the most critical, and often overlooked piece of the process. We will then move into individual monologue work, using the language of clown and games as a means to draw out as much fun, wonder and surprise as is possible in each piece. Everyone will be up on their feet with text in each class. After 5 weeks of play, we will put it all together with a mock audition on the final class.
Over the last 5 years alone, Gabe has assisted individuals get accepted into the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Juilliard, NYU, Brown/Trinity Rep, Columbia, The Pig Iron School, Steppenwolf, The Actor's Theatre of Louisville, CalARTS, UCSD in addition to RADA, Guildhall, Rose Buford, and Central School of Speech and Drama in London. COME PLAY!!
**This class is not exclusive to folks auditioning for MFA programs. While there will be a focus on grad school auditions, it is meant to serve all actors looking to work on monologues/solo material**
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$485
Advanced Beginner Play!
with Justine Williams
What if acting were just play, and the key to your aliveness and full magnificence on stage was primarily a process of rediscovering and developing your playful impulses with, for and through an audience? In this 8-week acting class, we’ll explore solo exploits, group games and physical training exercises (drawn from the pandemonium arts) to re-awaken your muscles for play, and to establish ways of playing together on stage.
With our playful impulses poised at the ready, we’ll see how characters, stories and theatrical worlds might spring forth through the simple pleasure of our play, and the promise of a good game.
The play principles and storytelling tools established here will ground you in your pursuit of clown, commedia and related forms, and enliven your approach to embodying characters and performative worlds, as well as imagining and creating your own.
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$485
Body Breath Heart: Energy Practice for Actors
with Annie Piper
Deep breath, warm body, open heart: this Qigong (energy work) and yin yoga hybrid will help
you map the energetic body, unpack holding patterns and down regulate the nervous system so you are ready to engage fully and fearlessly in your work. Expect to shake, sweat and feel
things.
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$345 for 12 sessions / $30 to drop in
Bouffon I Weekend
with Eric Davis
Unleash your inner Bouffon in an explosion of fun that turns life’s Sh!t into comedy gold!
How is Bouffon different than Clown? The World laughs at the Clown, but the Bouffon laughs at the World!
Imagine a wild-eyed pack of outsiders. These outsiders have ecstatic pleasure to mock anything and everything. Ridiculous, mischievous, confronting and poetic, these tricksters ride the line between comic fun and uncomfortable truth.
In this class, students will discover the attitude and spirit of the Bouffon through:
- Ensemble play & Complicity
- Choral work
- Finding the fun in becoming and mocking
- Navigating rich thematic territories.
- Discovering hot spots that make the audience say “ouch!"
Come join us. Fun, freedom and mischief await!
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$300
Russian Études (or, Scheduled F*ck Around Time)
with Annelise Lawson
Ever started rehearsal and felt stuck by how something "should" look? Get rid of that icky sense of "ought" and investigate the profound beauty of the f*ck around! Rediscover your imagination and let it guide you. Using this rehearsal tool developed from Stanislavski’s final experiments, students will explore scenes through the framework of their own impulses and artistic curiosities. We'll begin by rebuilding our relationship to imaginative play through a series of exploratory improvisations - or études. We'll then turn these exercises loose on text - investigating the unanswered questions through spontaneous play. Pull even the most intimidating texts off their pedestals and make them your own. F*ck around and find out!
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$295
$30 to drop in on Thursday, September 7th and Tuesday, October 24th
Warmup
with Layna Fisher
Has the barn door of your heart chakra creaked ever so slightly closed? Do you need a yay party with your clowny friends or some wah wah into some haha.......Come do the Clown Warm-up and open like a little flower (again or for the first time).
During this two-hour block, you will be lead through Pandemonium's Clown Warm-Up, and then spill into clown exercises tailored to the group lead by teacher trainee/current apprentice Layna Fisher.
Bring your kershproing and let's see if we can open those playful and fragile little hearts! Register ahead of time online or just drop in.
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$200 for 8 sessions / $30 to drop in
To ask questions, email admin@thepandemoniumstudio.com
