CLOWNS ON ACID:
EATING YOUR PANTIES WORKSHOP
*PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION REQUIRED*
ABOUT CLOWNS ON ACID: EATING YOUR PANTIES WORKSHOP
This two-day workshop — which culminates in a class show — is an intensive in every possible way. This workshop is for performers, comedians, clowns, dancers and artists of all genres who crave to create weirder, more authentic, edgier and riskier work.
Most of us live like some numb mushrooms, half of the brain on the phone another in the ass. Then when we want to create risky - vibrant - electric work — all that comes out is some silent warm fart. In our day-to-day life there are virtually no occasions where we could train our inner-acid dragon. So yeah I get it — some of us even need to take acid.
This craving drew me to Butoh — super rigorous Japanese theater training — so I could vomit my darkest impulses and transform them into creative potential. I blended it with comedy, Western physical theater and a dash of clown work — I call this method Power Trip. (Been testing it on Scandinavians for the past 10 years, WORKS.)
See you soon!!! Flush those mushrooms down the toilet — this shit’s gonna be reeeeeeeal!
DAY ONE: SAT 9/24 FROM 6PM - 8PM
A workshop at sunset on a mountain in Santa Monica. Where you will meet your inner animal. This work is not to be confused with some ecstatic dance nonsense — its fun, absurd, psychedelic BUT ALSO rigorous and systematic technique to open the parts of the psyche that are usually non active: primal, instinctual states; learning to trust your impulses — those parts of the brain that helps us to take more risk and to be more authentic.
DAY two: SUN 9/25 FROM 10aM - 2PM
We will meet at a dance studio where we will be exploring Western and Eastern traditions of physical theater training. We will spend some time working on your bits. I want to show you, how by engaging your body in certain ways, you can amplify your energetic presence. The more heightened is energetic presence the faster we think, the faster we think the more we trust our impulses and thus we take more risks, in turn becoming more authentic.
DAY THREE (CLASS SHOW): MON 9/26 AT 6PM
Ok so for this one — invite everyone !! Except people with weak nerves. We will use immersive theater elements and we will go over the basics of audience engagement. Together I want to create an immersive psychedelic “Clowns on Acid eating your panties” show. Where you can have one more wild trip and test out the techniques we learned.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Kira Nova is an artist, comedian and producer. Over the past 10 years she has created 5 solo shows and curated a number of variety theater productions. Among which was a show she created with Michael Portnoy and Reggie Watts — “Alligators! Experimental Comedy Lab”, presented in The Netherlands and Belgium.
Nova has presented her breed of one-woman shows at such venues as MoMa PS1, MET Breuer, The Kitchen in New York; Center Pompidou in Paris, Royal Academy Theater in London, Art Basel in Basel among many. While as a comedian Nova performed in many venues around NY, which include productions at The Box and House of Yes.
For the past 10 years, Nova has been leading workshops and teaching at many North American and European Art Academies, that include: Columbia University in New York (US), Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta (Canada), Paul Klee Center in Basel (Switzerland), Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), de Appel Curatorial Program in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel (Germany), Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Since 2013 Nova works as a professor at Lunds University (Sweden).