Dates: Saturdays, September 19th - November 7th
*Time: 2:00-5:00pm
**Cost: $180 + Red Nose Cost ($10)
Class Showcase: Saturday, November 14th, 6pm

*On Saturday, 10/3 Class will be shifted up one hour from 1-4pm

**Red Noses are required for this class. You will be able to buy your own high quality red nose for a subsided fee of $10 in class. If that fee is not viable for you, there will be options to use a nose gratis.

Class Info:
This class will build the fundamental skills of Clowning. But what is Clowning? Clowns are forever optimistic, physically alive, ferociously honest, and deeply connected to themselves, the audience, and the moment. Through improvised exercises, students will:

This toolkit is useful to improve any performance: acting, improvising, doing stand up, dancing, etc.
The material will be 100% accessible to complete newbies while still being enriching for experienced Clowns. That may sound like a contradiction, but then again Clowns live in contradiction, being stupidly brilliant, confidently self-conscious, quietly loud, and loudly quiet.

If you have any questions about the class, or if this class is sold out, please email [email protected] for answers and to join the waitlist.

Teacher Bio:
Ian Ornstein has studied Clowning with Paola Coletto, Aitor Basauri, John Gilkey, Virginia Scott, Jet Eveleth, and more. He combines elements of physical theater training alongside decades of improv performance and classes. His duo, Spiegel Im Spiegel explores the intersection of clown and improv and performs around Chicago.