LOS ANGELES: MEDICAL CLOWNING - THE HEALING EXPERIENCE

A WORKSHOP & DISCUSSION

Class Type Once
Dates  Monday, April 15th, 2019
Times 7:30pm-10:30pm
Location Middle Way LA, 6512 Arizona Ave, Culver City, CA 90045
Instructor Amnon Raviv
Cost $50

Amnon Raviv, medical clown with the Dream Doctors in Israel, and a PhD in Medical Clowning, is leading a workshop and discussion on his experience clowning in hospitals. This is a very special visit from Amnon who, as one of the foremost experts in the world, can share with us his unique perspective on the practice of medical clowning.

Amnon Raviv teaches in the Ben Gurion University School of medicine, Israel, and has been working as a medical clown in hospitals for more than a decade as part of the Dream Doctors Project. He has published many articles about medical clowning, including his book 'Medical Clowning: The Healing Performance' published by the University of Chicago Press. He is the first ever to hold a PhD in Medical Clowning.

Ages 18 and older.

Prerequisite: None. All experience levels welcome!

LOS ANGELES: Writing & performance

Class Type Weekly
Dates  May 5th, 2019 thru June 9th, 2019
Times 3pm-6pm, Sundays only
Location Live Arts LA, Eagle Rock
Instructor Tim Reid
Cost $299 (discounts for previous Clown School participants)

Though it’s often claimed that clowns don’t speak, we know it’s quite the opposite: it’s impossible to shut them up. To make them stop, Shakespeare even had Hamlet say: “Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.” Through writing and performance, this class explores the reasons why. 

How does writing lead to performance, and how through writing do we learn what it means to bring our selves on stage? This class will offer a number of strategies that use the urgency of performance to generate text. It will be lyrical, personal, and use image and metaphor to propel us into humor, disclosure and play. We are interested in the permeability we find on stage when it’s just us and our voice.

Ages 18 and older.

Prerequisite: None. All experience levels welcome!

LOS ANGELES: IMPROVISATION AND THE ITALIAN COMEDY

Class Type Intensive
Dates Wednesday June 19 thru Saturday June 22, 2019
Times 1-6pm
Location Live Arts LA, Eagle Rock
Instructor David Bridel
Cost $399 plus a $15 materials fee (discounts for previous Clown School participants)

Take a plunge into the commedia dell’arte, or Italian comedy, an amazing world of masks, obsessions, and human comedy. While commedia is often thought to be a narrow theatrical discipline, with strict demands on how to play the stock characters, this class will open up a different, vital aspect of the form - its extraordinary opportunities for improvisation and the lessons it can teach us about action, fantasy, and play. It’s a perfect playground for actors, clowns, and improvisors alike.

Ages 18 and older.

Prerequisite: None. All experience levels welcome!

LOS ANGELES: PURE POETRY

Class Type Intensive
Dates Wednesday July 24 thru Saturday July 27, 2019
Times 1-6pm
Location Live Arts LA, Eagle Rock
Instructor David Bridel
Cost $399 plus a $15 materials fee (discounts for previous Clown School participants)

This integrated intensive combines David’s pure clown training with his approach to the Poetry of the Clown. First, make a glorious mess in front of the audience; next, turn that mess into clown magic with beautiful music, mad props, and wild dreams that come alive. Clowns will start earthbound but end up flying!

Ages 18 and older.

Prerequisite: None. All experience levels welcome!