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Another gaggle of clowns released into the wild. 

11/9/2015

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STARTING WORK ON A NEW PROJECT THROUGH THE QUEER ART MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 

10/8/2015

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EXCITED TO JOIN MY FELLOW FELLOWS FOR THIS FELLOWSHIP!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO:
​QUEER ART MENTORSHIP PROGRAM ANNOUNCES 2015 - 2016 FELLOWS
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Aesthetic Movements: Manifestos and the Avant-Garde!!!

9/10/2015

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ANNOUNCING A NEW CLASS THIS FALL - SPREAD THE WORD!!! SIGN-UP SOON, ITS FILLING UP! 

Aesthetic Movements: Manifestos and the Avant-Garde
Examining key manifestos and exemplary works from the Italian and Russian Futurist, Dada, Surrealist and Situationist International movements, we will explore how aesthetic and performance practices can be used as tactics to respond to or resist cultural norms and to establish new modes of expression and being in the world. An interdisciplinary class, participants will work across artistic disciplines and fields of knowledge, but performance will serve as our primary investigatory tool, helping us to activate avant-garde texts and to engage these approaches now/today through embodied practices! 

with THE SCHOOL FOR MAKING THINKING at ABRONS ARTS in NYC
SEPT 29 - NOV 17TH! 

ITS GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!! 
SIGN UP HERE AT ABRONS ARTS
http://www.abronsartscenter.org/classes-and-summer-programs/adult-classes-and-workshops.html


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SUMMER WORKSHOPS @ PIMA!

6/1/2015

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Wildcat! Workshop for Tactical Self-Enfranchisement 
Who: For people who collaborate. This workshop will include physical movement. Be prepared to move around. Workshop is accessible to all and can adapt to fit everyone's needs. 
Date: Saturday, June 6th from 10am - 1pm 
Place: 25 Broadway, 7th floor
Instructors: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Eleni Zaharopoulos, and André M. Zachery
Cost: $15 for summer course students, $25 for Brooklyn College/PIMA students & alum, and $65 for general public 

DESCRIPTION: How do we use our individual skills to collaborate AND support one another? How do we develop collaborative skills that are socially responsible? Our society is simultaneously collaborative and anti-collaborative. Naturally, we develop our own set of tactics in order to participate within this duality. These tactics range from selfish to selfless. When we talk about collaboration in art-making, we are adding an artistic lens to something we already do every day. This workshop is designed to discover/discuss/illuminate our collaborative tactics and collectively evaluate if they are supportive of a community at large. Drawing from the collaborative history of their interdisciplinary collective, Wildcat!, Jeremy, Eleni, and André will lead a workshop that critically explores the ways we collaborate and the ways we don't- even when we think we are. In addition, they will also share some of their successful collaborative methods discovered while working together.

TO SECURE A PLACE IN THE WORKSHOP: pima.brooklyncollege@gmail.com

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THINGS FROM YOUR LIFE! a flea market fundraiser party

3/19/2015

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COME 
ALONG! ITS ALMOST SPRING, COME ALONG!

Join me for THINGS FROM YOUR LIFE!, 
an exploration of exchanging, sharing and valuing 
(also with drinking, dancing and eating) 
in support of There's Nothing to See Here, 
a visioning and building project/performance
that convenes groups for artful and playful examinations 
of how our means and ways of coming together 
and building reflect, resist, or reshape 
our being in the world...


We are having a fundraiser so that we can offer tickets to our show this May for FREEEEEE!!!!! 
Come, it is going to be so fun, I can already tell. Bring a thing from your life, bring a friend.

DETAILS:
www.thereisnothingtoseehere.org


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CLOWN 1 WORKSHOP - THIS SPRING AT MTS!

2/4/2015

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ITS TIME TO OPEN UP THAT HEART CHAKRA WITH SOME CLOWN CLASS! 

THIS SPRING AT MOVEMENT THEATRE STUDIO, TAUGHT BY YOURS TRULY, JUSTINE WILLIAMS

March 23rd - April 27th, 
6 consecutive Monday evenings from 6:30 - 10pm


http://www.movementtheaterstudio.com
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MY MIERDA ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF PHILIPPE GAULIER'S SPANISH INTERVIEW. ENJOY!

9/17/2014

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Confident. A man with clear ideas. The French clown Philippe Gaulier leaves no stone unturnedin La Torturadora (Éditions Filmiko), a book in the form of an irreverent, rude and comical interview, evoking his concept of theater, clown, directing. A concept that has little or nothing to do with the sacred classical methods. Stanislavski must be turning in his grave.

What is a clown?

It is someone who wants to believe he is very important, but he is basically ridiculous. And he is happy to be, not ashamed. He is wonderfully ridiculous, like Don Quixote.

Then he is aware of his ridiculousness ...

His friends would say, "If I were an idiot like you, I would be a clown." So he has heard that maybe yes, he's an idiot. This is very clear, and yet, he still has many things to say, like all idiots.

What role does humor play?

Life without humor is not life. Humor is the salt: if there is no humor in work, it is missing something.

In any genre?

At all. In life. In tragedy too. In Medea, we have to say: How beautiful! But also: What a beautiful actress! As a viewer I'm not always with the character, but I often am with the actress.

That's what they mean when they say it's nonsense to confuse oneself with the character, or to have “actory-ness”…

Its a very great nonsense.

However, conventional methods according to the ...

These classical methods are so stupid and they mainly only refer to Diderot and the eighteenth century. Who was this idiot? Stanislavski, a guy who bored the Russians for so long ... They converted stage directors to the role of priests, who say now you must suffer, mourn and weep at the funeral of your mother, so remember your mother. This is a kind of terrorism and it is what many teachers like about the theater! It is shit, but a shit thiiiiis/soooo big.

What to say to these actors?

I do not enter into their lives or into their misery. Those that cry for the sake of pleasuring their audiences. I've never worked around a table, putting the text high above everything else.

Do you prefer the risk of improvisation?

The text is written, but sometimes we do not know the best rhythm/pace and we need to try different things.

Can anyone be an actor?

No. There are people who have no pleasure and there are very boring people. There are those that have fun reminding us about our pleasure, selling it. We all have to give/to be generous with our pleasure. And to sell it, but for some that's almost like being a whore. They bored ones are more engaged with being pharmacists! The point is that these requirements greatly limit the number of people who can be an actor.

Are there many actors who should not be?

There are many. Others are geniuses.

The actor has to convey feelings but while having fun/pleasure and entertaining the viewer. Is there a pact/a relationship between them that is established?

The pact is the game. They want to play with us and this game is the way to have fun/to move towards nonsense or the ridiculous. When performing a Greek tragedy one must transmit fury; if you play a vaudeville/farce, you must make us laugh.

That's sounds natural, and you write that it is important not to be natural ...

I open my imagination while watching the actors play between them. If I go to a mental hospital and see a tragic scene, my imagination is not stimulated or amused. I get a shock, I am impressed in that it seems like real life. In theater, I enjoy it, because it is all a game: to convey pleasure, but not naturally.

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The cranky Frenchman on Stanislavski and the pleasure of performance. Even if you don't speak Spanish, the title says a lot. 

9/17/2014

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"El método Stanislavski es una mierda muy grande"
http://www.publico.es/culturas/281507/el-metodo-stanislavski-es-una-mierda-muy-grande
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TONIGHT!!! PLEASE GO HEAR THIS MAN TALK, HE IS A COMPLETE IDIOT. ONE OF THE GREATEST IDIOTS IN THE WORLD.

9/9/2014

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An Evening with Aitor Basauri

Aitor Basauri, Co-Founder and Company member with SpyMonkey

Join Aitor as he talks about his thoughts on clown, creating new work and his work with Spymonkey! Q & A Session will close the evening.

Free Event – No tickets necessary! At the Brick Theater, Williamsburg. 
Tuesday, September 9th 8:30pm
FREE!

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DO THIS, NOW!!!!! I BEG YOU.

9/3/2014

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Announcing... the Funny School of Good Acting's NYC clown for all weekends with Christopher Bayes, Acclaimed Director and Master Teacher of Physical Comedy/Clown

Space is limited! Get your spot now!

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)!
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Jump into your body... open like a little flower (again)... rediscover your playful spirit, the simple pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance. In this intensive workshop we (the new and the old friends) pursue the clown together in all of its messy and hilarious beauty. Your relationship to all other forms of drama will be enriched again, still or for the first time by the openness and reckless abandon that the clown requires. The pleasure is in the pursuit.
Instructors: Christopher Bayes
Admission is open to all students.

Saturday, October 11, 1-6pm &
Sunday, October 12, 12-5pm 
@ ART NY, South Oxford Space, Great Room
138 South Oxford St, Brooklyn, NYC
$250

OR - a totally separate weekend

Saturday, October 18, 1-6pm &
Sunday, October 19, 12-5pm 
@ Jack
505 1⁄2 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NYC
$250

To sign up for a workshop or ask questions, email thefunnyschool@gmail.com or call Virginia @ 917-533-1924

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