Lean into your growing and re-discover your joy!
Announcing the First Ever Annual Great Big Upstate
Clown and Move Around Weekend Retreat!
Friday October 6th - Monday October 9th
Clown and Move Around Weekend Retreat!
Friday October 6th - Monday October 9th
Work with Christopher Bayes (Clown and what not), Erica Fae (Soft Flow, or Can You Feel Your Toenails Growing?) and Annie Piper (Body, Breath, Heart: Energy Practice for Actors) over October 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th at the North American Cultural Laboratory in Highland Lake, NY.
Join 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 and save your spot!!
Arrive on the evening of Friday the 6th for dinner, then jump into class the next morning. Head back to the city on Monday the 9th all nice and unwound from your wild weekend mess around.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided onsite at NACL every day, including dinner on the evening of the 6th. 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 food class fees only.
Arrive on the evening of Friday the 6th for dinner, then jump into class the next morning. Head back to the city on Monday the 9th all nice and unwound from your wild weekend mess around.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided onsite at NACL every day, including dinner on the evening of the 6th. 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 food class fees only.
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Schedule:
Friday: arrival and welcome dinner. Saturday & Sunday: Breakfast at 8, Classes 9-6pm, with an hour long lunch break and dinner at 7. Monday: Breakfast, morning classes and departure. Tuition Options: Private room, Meals and Classes: $1000 Shared room, Meals and Classes: $875 Meals and Classes. No Housing: $700 |
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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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Erica Fae is a theatre/filmmaker, actor, and teacher at The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her first feature film as writer/director/producer/actor, To Keep the Light, was awarded the Fipresci Prize (International Critics’ Prize/Mannheim), Best Director (Berlin Indepedent Film Festival), Best of Show (Bendfilm), Best Emerging Director, two Best Narrative Feature Awards, and two Best Cinematography Awards at festivals, and is currently available on Amazon Prime. ...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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