Make some noise at Sound Clown Laboratory! This workshop is dedicated to experimenting with patterns and principles of musical clowning. Bring your instruments and noisemakers for a day of clowning through sound, rhythmic play, melody, and musicality. 

Learn classic clown acts and create your own routines in this one-day crash course in clowning. We will focus on performing with cartoony physicality and clear beats, preparing students to clown in the circus ring and on variety stages.

Commedia dell’arte is a highly physical 16th Century Italian theatre form based in stock characters and improvised scenarios. Learn the building blocks of comedic structure and relationships through character movements, building lazzi (rehearsed bits of comedy), and ensemble play.

Mime is the invisible art — the art of making the unseen seen, of conjuring worlds from empty space and a body in motion.

Learn to tells stories primarily through bodily movement, gesture, and expression rather than relying entirely on spoken dialogue

The World's Smallest Mask - The World’s Biggest Stage

Through the Nose with Dan Griffiths

Don your cuffs and armor- we’re headed to battle!

Build up your actor’s toolbox- in this 3 hour intensive, certified fight coordinator Jamin Jollo leads a journey of storytelling through combat. In this class, you’ll learn to beat up your peers- safely!- using professionally recognized combat techniques with skills and language allowing you to develop your own fight scenes.

This workshop is intended for clowns who could benefit from building more spontaneity, presence, and listening skills and improvisers who could benefit from building some more physical character and play skills.Things we’ll cover include: spontaneity, listening, storytelling, making strong physical choices, and failing cheerfully. 

In a four-week intensive exploration of movement for performers, Mime and Mask instructor Jamin Jollo guides students through classical mime technique and games to inspire and explore each student’s path of creation

This 3-hour masterclass explores the physics of play—the nuts and bolts of physical presence, attention, and playfulness - and how to use it to create aliveness in a room. Rooted in the principles of clown and physical comedy, you'll learn the foundational mechanics of comedy: physical authenticity, beginning comedic timing, structures for stage-play, and how the clown's relational awareness—connecting to scene partner, audience, space, and self—generates authentic comedy and compelling performance.

You never perform alone. Whether you’re working with fellow performers or the audience, every performance is an act of ensemble creation.

In this three-hour workshop, you’ll explore practical tools for strengthening your role within an ensemble.

This 3-hour workshop is intended for clowns who could benefit from building more spontaneity, presence, and listening skills and improvisers who could benefit from building some more physical character and play skills.

Where inner experience becomes shared meaning through ritual, movement, and play.

Unlock the next level of mime artistry with Mime Flow, a workshop designed for intermediate and advanced practitioners seeking to refine their imagery and integrate written constructs into their performance. This immersive experience explores the symbiotic relationship between physical movement and narrative design, emphasizing transformational flow, line design, and dynamic expression.

A 5-hour dip into the Pochinko (Canadian) style of clown work, focused on physical exploration, listening to ourselves, and being our most fantastic selves—whatever that may look like.

Step outside the box and unleash your most fantastical imagination through mime!

Hooray for play in the face of uncertainty! Improvisational principles, concepts, and games give us THE VERY TOOLS we need to navigate the next chaotic, unplanned, or uncertain moment - on or off stage.