Upcoming Workshops
For the first time ever, no kidding, EVER! The Pandemonium Studio is bringing you a clown class with master teacher Christopher Bayes (Head of Physical Acting-Yale School of Drama) every gol’ dang week for the whole entire fall!!! We’ve adapted our full curriculum – normally only available during our summer intensive or at Yale School of Drama – to a weekly format. On Sundays this fall, join us in the relentless pursuit of the Clown! Enter into the comic world with audacity and pleasure…receive your Clown name! Do the Greatest Trick in the World and face the Dreaded Flop!
Jump on in and find out what’s funny about YOU!
Or join our Teacher Training Program and crack the code of teaching movement, physical comedy,
and play remotely on Zoom!
Jump on in and find out what’s funny about YOU!
Or join our Teacher Training Program and crack the code of teaching movement, physical comedy,
and play remotely on Zoom!
CLOWN!!! THE WHOLE SHEBANG!!!
Sundays, August 30th – November 1st
1-4 PM EDT
Basic 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. $745
Sundays, November 15th – December 20th (no class November 29th)
1-4PM EDT
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: Basic Clown. $1,095 (includes Basic Clown Tuition)
TEACHER TRAINING!!!
Saturday August 22nd, Sunday August 23rd, Saturday August 29th
1-4 PM EDT
Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2: Jump into your bodies and reacquaint yourself with your sense of play and the peculiarities of teaching remotely before moving into pedagogical study for the term. $225
Sundays, August 30st – September 27th
1-4:30 PM EDT
Basic Teacher Training: Observe the first module of clown training with master teacher Christopher Bayes. Each day ends with a half-hour discussion about teaching techniques, challenges, and strategies. Prerequisite: Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2. $600 (includes Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2)
Sundays, October 4th – November 1st
1-4:30 PM EDT
Advanced Teacher Training: Deepen your understanding of the work by watching Clown students progress into exercises with noses. Take part in the most difficult thing of all…the naming of the Clowns! prerequisite: Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2, Basic Teacher Training. $975 (includes both prerequisites - everything so far)
Sundays, November 15th – December 20th (no class November 29th)
1-4:30 PM EDT
Extra Special Whole Shebang Teacher Training: Discover how to guide Clowns through the exploration of triumph and tragedy. The most we have to teach! That’s it. All of the secrets have been revealed! Prerequisite: Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2, Basic Teacher Training, Advanced Teacher Training. $1295 (one sweet price for the whole dang thing).
To sign up or ask questions, email admin@thepandemoniumstudio.com, or click the sign up button at the bottom of the page!
Sundays, August 30th – November 1st
1-4 PM EDT
Basic 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. $745
Sundays, November 15th – December 20th (no class November 29th)
1-4PM EDT
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: Basic Clown. $1,095 (includes Basic Clown Tuition)
TEACHER TRAINING!!!
Saturday August 22nd, Sunday August 23rd, Saturday August 29th
1-4 PM EDT
Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2: Jump into your bodies and reacquaint yourself with your sense of play and the peculiarities of teaching remotely before moving into pedagogical study for the term. $225
Sundays, August 30st – September 27th
1-4:30 PM EDT
Basic Teacher Training: Observe the first module of clown training with master teacher Christopher Bayes. Each day ends with a half-hour discussion about teaching techniques, challenges, and strategies. Prerequisite: Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2. $600 (includes Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2)
Sundays, October 4th – November 1st
1-4:30 PM EDT
Advanced Teacher Training: Deepen your understanding of the work by watching Clown students progress into exercises with noses. Take part in the most difficult thing of all…the naming of the Clowns! prerequisite: Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2, Basic Teacher Training. $975 (includes both prerequisites - everything so far)
Sundays, November 15th – December 20th (no class November 29th)
1-4:30 PM EDT
Extra Special Whole Shebang Teacher Training: Discover how to guide Clowns through the exploration of triumph and tragedy. The most we have to teach! That’s it. All of the secrets have been revealed! Prerequisite: Teacher Training Weekend & 1/2, Basic Teacher Training, Advanced Teacher Training. $1295 (one sweet price for the whole dang thing).
To sign up or ask questions, email admin@thepandemoniumstudio.com, or click the sign up button at the bottom of the page!
Ongoing Pandemonic Offerings
Laughing Club with Christopher Bayes
Since we find ourselves in extraordinary times full of mind-boggling gobbledygook and bewilderment we have decided to try something altogether brand new to ease our anxiety, boost our immune systems, purge some toxins and kick the endorphins off the charts and right in the yowie!
It's called a Laughing Club.
We hope you can join us for this ongoing wellness practice designed to help process the grief, rage and anxiety of the present moment while also trying to remember the sound of your beautiful laugh.
Sign up, and have a good fall-apart from the safety of your own living room, or bedroom, basement, bathroom, or kitchen!
Fridays, 5pm - 6pm EST
On Zoom
All proceeds will benefit Black Lives Matter.
Suggested donation $20
Click here for details!
Since we find ourselves in extraordinary times full of mind-boggling gobbledygook and bewilderment we have decided to try something altogether brand new to ease our anxiety, boost our immune systems, purge some toxins and kick the endorphins off the charts and right in the yowie!
It's called a Laughing Club.
We hope you can join us for this ongoing wellness practice designed to help process the grief, rage and anxiety of the present moment while also trying to remember the sound of your beautiful laugh.
Sign up, and have a good fall-apart from the safety of your own living room, or bedroom, basement, bathroom, or kitchen!
Fridays, 5pm - 6pm EST
On Zoom
All proceeds will benefit Black Lives Matter.
Suggested donation $20
Click here for details!
Acting as Play with Gabriel Levey
A Clown-based Scene Study class?? Over ZOOM?!? You got that right bucko!!
Harness your beautiful little idiot's relentless pursuit of fun. Stretch out your imagination and strengthen your wonder. Embrace the precarious pleasure of not needing to know what’s coming next. Find the fun in whatever given circumstances your character has no choice but to endure. And always lead with Hope, regardless of the inevitable disasters laid out in the text.
The Pandemonium Studio's own Gabriel Levey is bringing you this irreverent gem of a class in a brand spankin' new format adapted for remote learning! Bust out of the lonesome confines of your bedroom (or basement, or closet, or utility shed - we don't know) and find dynamic imaginative play in a new kind of ensemble.
Check back soon for the August and September schedule!
A Clown-based Scene Study class?? Over ZOOM?!? You got that right bucko!!
Harness your beautiful little idiot's relentless pursuit of fun. Stretch out your imagination and strengthen your wonder. Embrace the precarious pleasure of not needing to know what’s coming next. Find the fun in whatever given circumstances your character has no choice but to endure. And always lead with Hope, regardless of the inevitable disasters laid out in the text.
The Pandemonium Studio's own Gabriel Levey is bringing you this irreverent gem of a class in a brand spankin' new format adapted for remote learning! Bust out of the lonesome confines of your bedroom (or basement, or closet, or utility shed - we don't know) and find dynamic imaginative play in a new kind of ensemble.
Check back soon for the August and September schedule!
To sign up or ask questions, email admin@thepandemoniumstudio.com