Clown and Physical Comedy

Big red nose not required.

$315/$285 early registration, 8 weeks, 3 hours

Clown & Physical Comedy 1 TBA
This workshop is not offered every term. If you would like to be informed when it becomes available, please click here.

Prerequisites: Open to all students

This class in physical comedy strips away layers of self-consciousness while familiarizing students with the bare-bones of theatrical clowning. Learn to establish a direct and immediate relationship with an audience and become complicit with scene partners while moving through performance space with musicality. The class focuses on exercises in clowning, physical comedy, improvisation to heighten one's natural sense of play. Students will amaze themselves as they begin to master the skillful juxtaposition of emotional blundering and physical precision.

Clown & Physical Comedy 2 TBA
This workshop is not offered every term. If you would like to be informed when it becomes available, please click here.

Prerequisites: Clown & Physical Comedy 1

Clown & Physical Comedy 2 focuses on the generation of original material through improvisation and writing structures. With the class operating as an ensemble, students will continue to grow their movement vocabulary for the purpose of physical storytelling, self-expression, and comedy. The class dissects classic gag structure, slapstick adagios, and contemporary methods such as deconstruction and modern Clown Theater. Audience participation, site specific performance, and elements of busking are also explored. Students are encouraged to experiment with costumes and personas as a way of continuing the journey of discovering their clown.