WINTER WORKSHOPS:
A Clown Gym Workshop: This workshop is sold out. Please email info@clowngym.com to join the waitlist.
Tuesday January 6th from 7-9pm. $30.
Northern Manhattan, off the 181st A and 1 trains.
Reunite with old friends and make new ones in a classic Clown Gym workshop! We’ll warm up, play games, collaborate in small groups and you’ll have solo time in front of an audience under the expert guidance of Clown Gym Founding Director Julia Proctor.
All experience levels are welcome. You’ll be encouraged, challenged, and have fun. Wear movement clothes, because we get sweaty.
Shape and Sharpen: generating and honing new material with Julia Proctor. This workshop is sold out. Click here to join the waitlist.
Saturday January 10th and Sunday January 11th from 10am-5pm. $210.
This workshop is produced by PhysFestNYC and Broken Box Mime Theater and will take place at the Stella Adler Center for the Arts at 65 Broadway NYC.
Join Julia Proctor – Broadway clown coach, NYU Tisch professor, and Founding Director of Clown Gym – in this advanced weekend workshop designed for performers with clown training who are new to developing their own work or need support bringing material to the next level.
We’ll use tools of theatrical clown to quickly create and edit specific and surprising material. Julia’s approach will help you clearly define and execute your artistic vision, and help make you a more resilient, adaptable, playful, and brave creator.
Saturday will be a day of games and exercises designed to get your body moving and ideas flowing while strengthening your ability to make proposals and edit in front of an audience.
Sunday morning will start with a group warmup and then break out into open rehearsal time in the studio, with Julia floating around coaching. After lunch, you’ll workshop material as a cohort. In the afternoon there will be a casual sharing of your work with festival goers, concluding with a cohort debrief. You’ll leave knowing what your next steps are with the material and energized with new tools to develop work.
Limited to 12 participants. You’re welcome to work as a duo, although both folks need to register as individuals. You can generate new material during the workshop and/or bring something you’re working on, which might include a character, a five minute set, or part of a larger piece you’re developing. Register here.
PhysFestNYC is a community-focused festival that celebrates, enriches, and envisions our field of physical theaters. As an annual gathering, provides space for practitioners, audiences, and the physical-theater-curious to share in presented works, diverse workshop offerings, and community-building events. Join us from January 8th-18th at the Stella Adler Center for Performing Arts.
Broken Box Mime Theater‘s mission is to activate the imagination of our audiences, contemporize the art of mime, and remind us all of the power of simple storytelling.
FALL WORKSHOPS:
A Clown Gym Workshop with Julia Proctor on Sunday October 5th from 2-5pm. This workshop is sold out. Please email info@clowngym.com to join the waitlist.
Reunite with old friends and make new ones in a classic Clown Gym workshop! We’ll warm up, play games, collaborate in small groups and have solo time in front of an audience.
All experience levels are welcome. You’ll be encouraged, challenged, and have fun. Wear movement clothes, because we get sweaty.
Folks from Saturday’s Joy of Clowning workshop are encouraged to attend to try out their new skills!
What’s different about this Clown Gym workshop? This special workshop will last three hours instead of two, will happen during the day instead of at night, and we’ll be in a studio above ground instead of in a basement! Sounds like a triple win.
Sunday October 5 from 2-5pm.
Manhattan Theatre Club rehearsal studios, 311 W 43rd Street.
Cost: $40
The Joy of Clowning: an introductory red nose workshop with Julia Proctor on October 4th from 10am-5pm. This workshop is sold out. Please email info@clowngym.com to join the waitlist.
Give yourself a dose of joy this fall at Clown Gym!
During this one-day intensive we’ll play with the red nose, the smallest mask in the world, to uncover your authentic self and share more of the messy, joyful, courageous and funny parts of your artistry with an audience.
Through a series of games and group and solo exercises, we aim to give joy and pleasure more value in your work, match the scale of your physical, emotional and imaginative impulses to intention, play with less stress and self-criticism, befriend the audience, and surprise yourself as a performer.
This introductory workshop is great for folks who want to learn new skills, connect to their bodies, laugh a lot, shake out some big feelings and share all of that with an audience.
Saturday October 4 from 10-5pm, with a one-hour lunch break.
Manhattan Theatre Club rehearsal studios, 311 W 43rd Street in Midtown Manhattan.
Cost: $125. Limited to 14 students. Email info@clowngym.com to join the waitlist.
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You must be 18 years or older to attend a Clown Gym workshop.
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