About the Mask and Clown Intensive (Baby Clown)

This intensive begins with a focus on exercises used to awaken and encourage a sense of pleasure, awareness of the audience, and an honest physical and emotional response to internal impulses and external events. Many exercises are done with eyes closed to help develop and expand the student’s experience of perception and focus. Through physical exercises rooted in colour work, the body is approached as a source of creative visualization and physicalization for developing character or story elements through improvisations.

Once the colour work is done students are ready for the making and wearing of six masks. The masks become the guideposts to the student’s creative playground and to their own personal clown. With each mask the student prepares a short turn (sketch) to express the essence of the mask. Through these turns, along with the exercises of the entire intensive, the rules of clown emerge giving the student a fundamental understanding of clown.

This workshop is an intense blast and furnishes the student with multiple characters and a malleable structure for continued creative exploration with limitless applications. It is not necessary to be a performer to take this course. All are welcome, from all experiences of life.