About the Course
Sessions
8
Location
MCC
Modality
In Person
Age Requirement
18+
Level
All Levels
Class Capacity
12
Materials Required
No required supplies needed.
Total Hours
16
This course will explore personal clown in terms of physical gesture, expressivity, and the presentational aspects of this theatrical form.
Students will begin with 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. Working towards then exploring the presentational aspects of the form in a technical unit. The underlying methodology is based on improvisation to discover and explore the impulses and actions of your clown.
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