Clown Booster is a two-hour workshop designed for all levels to get together, play, and experience what it takes to find your clown. A great introduction to those new to clowning and a good refresh for those clowns who are more experienced. Come and learn something new or flex your existing clown muscles with teachers Ashley Jones & Katherine Marino. Great for actors, performers, and humans of all kinds who are clown-curious or already converted clown lovers.
In an effort to make this workshop accessible, we are offer a sliding scale.
$20: All fools welcome
$35: Average Joey
$60: Pay it fool-ward
You can choose the scale at which you’d be most comfortable paying when you register for the booster in the link below.
About Clown
Clowning is a performance tradition which has developed over the last few hundred years. Over the last century, ‘theatre’ or ‘character’ clowning developed alongside circus clowning. In recent decades, theatre clowning has been linked with the development of other art forms, such as physical theatre and mime. Its focus is character, feelings, meanings, and ways of seeing the world, alongside the more familiar slapstick or ‘gags’. Clowning is a rich tool for actors and performers of any discipline. Come ready to stretch your imagination, connect with your silly side and celebrate your mistakes.
About the Booster
The Booster will explore a range of tools that exercise the performer’s imagination and provide you with a much needed reenergising of the essential practical skills to develop a comic character/clown. We will spend time learning how to connect, listen and respond to the audience and through the use of improvisational games we will explore your individual clown, shedding light on the parts of us which make us funny, ridiculous, rebellious, and unique.
Suitable for clowns (beginners and experienced), actors, directors, dancers, writers, artists/performers in any field, as well as the playful and the curious from all walks of life.
About the Teachers
Katherine Marino
Katherine Marino is a physical theater artist based in Rochester, NY where she creates original multi-disciplinary performances incorporating contemporary dance, clowning, and theater. She is known and loved in her community for her big hair, her unique movement style, and her hat juggling and clowning work, including her solo clown show titled A Show with Cookies. In addition to writing and performing, Marino finds great joy in teaching classes and workshops in contact improvisation, physical theater, and clown.
@katherine.dances
Ashley Jones
Ashley is an award winning physical performer, clown, teacher and director. Having trained across Europe at clown schools in Switzerland, France and his home country of England he has spent years honing and continues to develop his theatrical clown practice based on the principles of creative provocation and play. He has taught for renowned drama schools in the UK and on college campuses across North America.