Clown Study Intensive
With David Taft
May 16 - May 18 (FRI, SAT, SUN 9AM - 4PM) | Course Cost: $414.00
About the Course
Sessions
3
Location
MCC
Modality
In Person
Age Requirement
18+
Level
Intermediate
Class Capacity
12
Materials Required
No supplies required.
Total Hours
18
Students in this course will explore personal clown in terms of physical gesture, expressivity, and the presentational aspects of this theatrical form. By investigating the basics of the personal clown, which consists of literally walking into character, using your own physical idiosyncrasies as the underpinning of your clown character. We will then explore the presentational aspects of the form in a technical unit. The underlying methodology of this work is based on improvisation to discover and explore the impulses and actions of your clown. To end the session, students will create new material based on the clown characters in solo or duo pieces.
Learning Outcomes:
- Review of the basic concepts of presentational theater
- Theory and practice of exaggerated physical form
- Clown formation (or reintroduction of previous clown form)
- Snapping in and out of character
- Entrances and exits
- Silent storytelling
- Introduction of 2, 3 & 4 point focus
- Improvisations with objects
- Improvisations with other clowns
- Improvisations with objects and other clowns
- Construction of a short clown piece…solo or duo