SESSIONS
CLOWN & VOICE
CREATION
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NYC​
January 23, 24, 25, 2026 ​​
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This session brings the playful impulses of the body (discovered through the clown) together with our capacities for vocal play and musical exploration -- to find greater freedom and resonance, and to explore the potential for harmony & cacophony on stage, at any moment.
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Moving between exercises based in clown, games, play, vocal/musical improvisation and physical exploration, we'll work to peel back those pesky, extra layers of effort, holding and conditioning, and instead, encourage the softness, allowance and gleeful pandemonium that clown & vocal play invite.
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In this unique workshop that brings clown and vocal/musical training together, we’ll discover how our most playful, expressive self – the clown - may dwell within the most
surprising and uncomfortable of spaces – delving into the cracks, breaks and crevices in our voices, our bodies and in ourselves to let our light shine through!
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Tuition is $250 - $350, sliding scale.
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NYC & WOODSTOCK
February 13, 14, 15 / NYC
March 13, 14, 15 / NYC
April 26, 6 - 8pm / Online
May 15, 16, 17 / Woodstock
While it’s cold and dark outside - let’s hibernate and create!
Join us for a series of weekend sessions spread out over the Winter/Spring to hunker down and plant the seeds of a brand-new performance — dreamed up, created and performed by YOU.
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Beginning with generative exercises through the lens of games, clown, vocal & physical improvisation, songs, song creation, and play, we’ll support you (or your duo, trio) in shaping this raw
material into a wee show!
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Bring the seed of something already in the works, or use our first session to begin a playful discovery into what you might like to create!
Join for all three sessions, and we’ll work together to deepen your questions and curiosities - using the world of play, clown, voice, and musicality to further your creative vision.
The series includes three intensive weekend sessions (two in NYC and one hosted by our friend Rose in
her glorious studio in Woodstock, NY), along with one virtual session to support your creative progress.
This is a unique opportunity to bring clown and voice training together, and to see how your playful nature and impulses move into creation.
Trade your seasonal depression, Netflix binge, and winter quilting project for generating and creating with a cohort of like-minded idiots, and emerge this Spring/Summer with the bud of a bright, beautiful show!
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Tuition is $250 - $350 / per weekend, sliding scale or $850 - $1150 / for all 3 weekends plus a group creative coaching session in between in-person work sessions.
OPEN PLAY
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PARIS, FRANCE ​
June 29 - July 12, 2026
Led by Justine, Katie & Emmanuelle
Join us in Paris for a two-week intensive in acting and performance-making as we bring together training in play, games & clown, vocal & musical exploration, neutral mask, and Lecoq-based movement work.
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We'll explore the actor's pleasure in playing, and what brings each actor uniquely to life on stage, and we'll investigate the principles of play that sit at the heart of the theatrical event and give life to the comic world.
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Through physical training based in play, games, clown, neutral mask, and the pedagogies of Jacques Lecoq – alongside vocal training based in Roy Hart, Linklater, CircleSinging, Sound Painting, vocal improvisation and musical exploration -- we'll investigate how the body, voice, imagination and playful spirit of the performer work in unison to inhabit and reveal moments, emotions, characters, stories and worlds on stage.
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We'll look at how the essential elements of play -- presence, pleasure, appetite, impulse, rhythm, resonance, repetition, timing, stakes, scale, stillness, attack, and more -- are embodied and expressed in both the voice and body.
And, we'll move through a series of guided improvisations and compositional exercises (solo and in groups) -- to bring those playful impulses & elements into action.
Called OPEN CANVASS, these explorations call upon actor-creators to enlarge their sense of presence and play, and to enlist both collaborators and audience as partners in play and in creation.​ As each performer builds their capacity to play sensitively and valiantly in the present moment and in dynamic relationship to actors and audience, and as they build the confidence and skill to channel those playful impulses fully through the voice and body -- exciting (and limitless) theatrical possibilities emerge.
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The unique encounter of these three pedagogies will allow new perspectives and creative frictions to emerge, enabling artists to meet a myriad of performance challenges and to thrive in all manner of theatrical styles and worlds.​
Tuition for the two-week program is sliding scale | 1200 - 1500 euro
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Early Bird Pricing: 1100 euro if you register by February 1
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There will be two partial and two full training scholarships available for global majority and disabled artists artists who may experience barriers to training and performance opportunities, please inquire if interested.