Upcoming Fall Classes
We're thrilled to announce our Winter/Spring Classes for 2022: Make a Good and Funny (or heartbreakingly beautiful) Clown Show!!! Get under the hood with a dose of Teacher Training; see what it's like to apply the relentless enthusiasm of the clown to text with Gabe; mess around with some Shakespeare/Clown with Annelise. We will offer the full Clown Progression/Teacher Training again in June. So, make some room for that! Hopefully by then we can safely have a look at your whole face for real!
Until we get this freaking Variant under control we are, sadly, still going mostly remote. We're hoping to offer some in-person events (Clown for All!) when the world gets a little safer. But not to worry, we've cracked the elusive Zoom code! Log in for this strange and intimate new approach to the study of physical comedy and clown!
Read on to see what's on offer, mark your calendars, or sign up below!
Clown Show!
with Christopher Bayes
Let's go on ahead and make a thing! A hilarious, beautiful, heartbreakingly idiotic thing called...Clown Show! Each week we make and show and tweak and fail and triumph and celebrate the audacity to be open and playful! Investigate your unique relationship to the comic world and the nature of the Actor/Audience conversation. Let your clown lead you to magnificent, surprising and preposterous discoveries. Learn to craft beautiful “shows” jam-packed with generosity, virtuosity, and messy fun! Then you can take them out into the world and show them off like a beautiful new pony. Ta Da!
Prerequisite: full Clown progression.
Wednesdays | Jan 26th, Feb 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, March 2nd & 9th
1-4 pm EST | on Zoom
$375 for the first five classes, or $500 for the whole shebang!
Clown for All Weekend
with Christopher Bayes
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.
Saturday, Feb 5th and Sunday, Feb 6th
1-4 pm | on Zoom
$150
Saturday, Feb 12th and Sunday, Feb 13th
12-5pm | IN PERSON!
JACK Arts NYC | 20 Putnam Ave. | Brooklyn NY 11238
$250
Acting as Play
(NOW AN ONGOING MONTHLY CLASS!)
with Gabriel Levey
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!
Tuesdays
Feb 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd
March 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th
April 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th
May 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th
1-4pm | on Zoom
$275 per Month.
$25 off if you sign up for than one month at a time.
Clown
with Christopher Bayes
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.
Dates TBD
Advanced Clown
with Christopher Bayes
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.
Dates TBD
Extra Super Advanced Clown!
with Christopher Bayes
Name? Check. Costume? Check. Perform the Greatest Trick in the World!
And face that greatest of Clown challenges...The Dreaded Flop.
Dates TBD
Shakespeare as Play
with Annelise Lawson
Shakespeare as Play is a physical acting and ensemble-based course combining clown and heightened text. We'll work on Shakespeare’s most explosive monologues, supported throughout by clown, ensemble games, and exercises! Learn to unleash the theatrical potential of Shakespeare’s text through fully-activated, happy, and hungry bodies.
Dates TBD
Improv with Ralf!
with Ralf Jean-Pierre
Eliminate that pesky, stinky pressure to be a genius, and find freedom in your magnificent dumbness! Unlock a playful collaboration so honest, so personal, so beautifully stupid, that it inspires cascades of real, quivering, gut-busting belly laughs! Use your voice and body to make a soundscape with Sound Travel; battle to be the most interesting person in the Zoom room with Challenge; every activity is designed to help you focus on the emotional and physical life of others and respond in kind. You will make people laugh til they snort! And you will tell them, “I heard you snort!”
Dates TBD
Teacher Training
with Christopher Bayes
Observe clown training with master teacher Christopher Bayes. Each day ends with a half-hour discussion about teaching techniques, challenges, and strategies.
Taught in conjunction with Clown. Application required.
Find application information here!
Dates TBD
Until we get this freaking Variant under control we are, sadly, still going mostly remote. We're hoping to offer some in-person events (Clown for All!) when the world gets a little safer. But not to worry, we've cracked the elusive Zoom code! Log in for this strange and intimate new approach to the study of physical comedy and clown!
Read on to see what's on offer, mark your calendars, or sign up below!
Clown Show!
with Christopher Bayes
Let's go on ahead and make a thing! A hilarious, beautiful, heartbreakingly idiotic thing called...Clown Show! Each week we make and show and tweak and fail and triumph and celebrate the audacity to be open and playful! Investigate your unique relationship to the comic world and the nature of the Actor/Audience conversation. Let your clown lead you to magnificent, surprising and preposterous discoveries. Learn to craft beautiful “shows” jam-packed with generosity, virtuosity, and messy fun! Then you can take them out into the world and show them off like a beautiful new pony. Ta Da!
Prerequisite: full Clown progression.
Wednesdays | Jan 26th, Feb 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, March 2nd & 9th
1-4 pm EST | on Zoom
$375 for the first five classes, or $500 for the whole shebang!
Clown for All Weekend
with Christopher Bayes
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.
Saturday, Feb 5th and Sunday, Feb 6th
1-4 pm | on Zoom
$150
Saturday, Feb 12th and Sunday, Feb 13th
12-5pm | IN PERSON!
JACK Arts NYC | 20 Putnam Ave. | Brooklyn NY 11238
$250
Acting as Play
(NOW AN ONGOING MONTHLY CLASS!)
with Gabriel Levey
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!
Tuesdays
Feb 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd
March 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th
April 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th
May 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th
1-4pm | on Zoom
$275 per Month.
$25 off if you sign up for than one month at a time.
Clown
with Christopher Bayes
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.
Dates TBD
Advanced Clown
with Christopher Bayes
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.
Dates TBD
Extra Super Advanced Clown!
with Christopher Bayes
Name? Check. Costume? Check. Perform the Greatest Trick in the World!
And face that greatest of Clown challenges...The Dreaded Flop.
Dates TBD
Shakespeare as Play
with Annelise Lawson
Shakespeare as Play is a physical acting and ensemble-based course combining clown and heightened text. We'll work on Shakespeare’s most explosive monologues, supported throughout by clown, ensemble games, and exercises! Learn to unleash the theatrical potential of Shakespeare’s text through fully-activated, happy, and hungry bodies.
Dates TBD
Improv with Ralf!
with Ralf Jean-Pierre
Eliminate that pesky, stinky pressure to be a genius, and find freedom in your magnificent dumbness! Unlock a playful collaboration so honest, so personal, so beautifully stupid, that it inspires cascades of real, quivering, gut-busting belly laughs! Use your voice and body to make a soundscape with Sound Travel; battle to be the most interesting person in the Zoom room with Challenge; every activity is designed to help you focus on the emotional and physical life of others and respond in kind. You will make people laugh til they snort! And you will tell them, “I heard you snort!”
Dates TBD
Teacher Training
with Christopher Bayes
Observe clown training with master teacher Christopher Bayes. Each day ends with a half-hour discussion about teaching techniques, challenges, and strategies.
Taught in conjunction with Clown. Application required.
Find application information here!
Dates TBD
Ongoing Pandemonic Offerings
Laughing Club
with Christopher Bayes
with Christopher Bayes
Oh my, dear friends,
Since we continue to find ourselves in relentless and extraordinary times full of mind-boggling gobbledygook and savage and unrepentant bewilderment, we have decided to continue something that once upon a time was altogether brand new but has now become a heroic way to ease our anxiety, boost our immune systems, purge some gnarly toxic yucky stuff while also kicking the endorphins off the charts and right in the yowie!
It's called a Laughing Club.
The Laughing Club is inspired by Laughter Yoga but deeply rooted in the pedagogy of Clown and Mask training.
We hope you can join us for this ongoing wellness practice designed to help process the grief, rage and anxiety of the ongoing present moment while also trying to remind ourselves what it feels like to live in a hopeful body, as well as to remember the sound of your beautiful laugh.
Sign up for a one-hour session, and have a real good, juicy, howling bwah ha hah fall-apart from the safety of your own living room, bedroom, basement, or perhaps even...your (relatively safe) kitchen!
Fridays, 5pm - 6pm EST
On Zoom
25% of all profits will benefit Black Lives Matter.
Suggested donation $20
Click here for details!
AND CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THIS NEW YORK TIME ARTICLE
ON ALL THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER!
Since we continue to find ourselves in relentless and extraordinary times full of mind-boggling gobbledygook and savage and unrepentant bewilderment, we have decided to continue something that once upon a time was altogether brand new but has now become a heroic way to ease our anxiety, boost our immune systems, purge some gnarly toxic yucky stuff while also kicking the endorphins off the charts and right in the yowie!
It's called a Laughing Club.
The Laughing Club is inspired by Laughter Yoga but deeply rooted in the pedagogy of Clown and Mask training.
We hope you can join us for this ongoing wellness practice designed to help process the grief, rage and anxiety of the ongoing present moment while also trying to remind ourselves what it feels like to live in a hopeful body, as well as to remember the sound of your beautiful laugh.
Sign up for a one-hour session, and have a real good, juicy, howling bwah ha hah fall-apart from the safety of your own living room, bedroom, basement, or perhaps even...your (relatively safe) kitchen!
Fridays, 5pm - 6pm EST
On Zoom
25% of all profits will benefit Black Lives Matter.
Suggested donation $20
Click here for details!
AND CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THIS NEW YORK TIME ARTICLE
ON ALL THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER!
Give the gift of Laughter!
To sign up or ask questions, email admin@thepandemoniumstudio.com
