Dean Evans

This 6 week class will strip away layers of self-consciousness and deepen your skills as a fun physical performer. Learn to create relationships with an audience, discover worlds of play with your ensemble, and move through life with the cosmic musicality of a clown. In this class we’ll do exercises in clown, slapstick, ensemble movement and improvisation to heighten our natural sense of play and create stunning original works.

Thymele Arts - Dance Studio - 5481 Santa Monica Blvd Parking Info...
$275

Mime Online has seen hundreds students from all over the world. Join us for this monthly online Mime class. This class is for all levels including beginners to advanced. We'll go over the basics in the poetic art of Mime including isolations, movement, and composition. This class in also paired with a wine. Be prepared to move. This class is offered on a sliding scale.

Expand your range of movement and learn to embody your creative expression with exacting precision. Mime is essential for the modern theater creator’s toolbox, and in this class you’ll learn the techniques of Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Stefan Niedzialkovski, and the unique style of American Mime. With just your body, you’ll learn to create rich environments, nuanced characters, and tap into limitless worlds of play for storytelling and improvisation. Through a disciplined and playful approach that includes floor and barre work, and performance exercises, you’ll build skills to develop and perform innovative new works of theater and to move with joy and confidence. In this workshop you will use the writing structures and visual poetry of mime to create original compositions to find your own artistic voice.

Now through May 1 (Early Bird Rate):
Workshop with standard double-occupancy room: $720
Workshop with single room: $1,080

Starting on May 2:
Workshop with standard double-occupancy room: $800
Workshop with single room: $1,200

A workshop for comedians, clowns, artists, and pranksters alike. Bouffon is the physical art of satire, manipulation, and mockery, sometimes referred to as the anti-clown. In this class we reshape ourselves into something new, find ecstasy in mockery, and develop a socially conscience voice. Using exercises in satire, clown, and audience participation, we created dynamic characters to challenge an audience. space is limited.