The SECOND First Ever Annual Great Big Upstate Fall Clown and Move Around Weekend Retreat — A weekend intensive of movement, play, and audacity
Spend a few days with some Master Teachers from The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale (formally The Yale School of Drama)! Work with Christopher Bayes (Clown and what not), Annie Piper (Body, Breath, Heart: Energy Practice for Actors), and Annelise Lawson (Pagan Open Mike) over November 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
Arrive on the evening of Friday the 1st for dinner, then jump into class the next morning. Head home on Sunday the 3rd all nice and unwound from your wild weekend mess around.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided onsite, including dinner on the evening of the 1st. Accommodation options include single rooms, shared rooms at NACL, or local housing.
Tuition Options
Private room, Meals and Classes: $650
Shared room, Meals and Classes: $575
Meals and Classes. No Housing: $475
Take a breath, eat some yummy food, get a little bit pagan, and surprise yourself! Space is limited, so sign up now to save your spot!! For more information, click below.
Workshop Leaders
Christopher Bayes (Founder of The Pandemonium Studio) began his theater career with the internationally acclaimed Theatre de la Jeune Lune where he worked for five years as an actor, director, composer, designer and artistic associate. In 1989 he joined the acting company of the Guthrie Theater where he appeared in over twenty productions. His roles included Caliban inThe Tempest, Edgar in King Lear, The Herald in Marat/Sade and Harlequin in Triumph of Love. In 1993, commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming based on Heinrich Boll’s novel The Clown.
Annie Piper teaches at Kula Yoga in Tribeca, The Shala and Prema Yoga in Brooklyn. She is on the movement faculty at NYU's Tisch School of Graduate Acting and The Yale School of Drama. She is the co-teacher of 'The Open Voice' with Jessie Austrian at NYU's Gallatin School. She is certified to teach trauma-sensitive yoga by both the Trauma Center in Boston and with the national organization Warriors at Ease, and continues to bring yoga to veterans throughout the New York area.
Annelise Lawson (Pandemonium Studio Co-Founder and Director of Administration and Enrollment) is an actress and director. After first studying with Christopher Bayes at the Yale School of Drama, she’s since collaborated with him both in the rehearsal room and out – training with him as a teacher’s apprentice and going on to become a founding member of The Pandemonium Studio. As a teacher, Annelise’s work focuses on developing technique and style through students’ personal sense of fun. Her areas of expertise include Clown, Commedia dell’arte, and the Russian Étude method – an improvisatorial rehearsal tool designed unleash an actor’s imagination into the world of the text.