Did ya take the Pandemonium workshop with Christopher Bayes, and now you wanna know what's next? Or did ya MISS the Pandemoniumworkshop, and wanna know what it's all about? This is the class for you! Stay in hot pursuit of your reckless fun with some regular Pandemonium! Work with Annelise Lawson, co-founder of The Pandemonium Studio in New York, and Lecturer at Yale School of Drama to keep building your skills or develop new ones.
This weekend class covers basics and introduces new exercises to discover the clown. Students work both in groups and in solo explorations tailored to their skill level and past experience. Expect to move, shout, yell, and maybe fall in love a little.
Jump into your body...open like a little flower...rediscover your playful spirit and the simple pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance.
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Saturday, Feb 14th and Sunday, Feb 15th
Saturday, March 14th and Sunday March, 15th
12-5pm
in the Skunk Room
About the Instructor:
ANNELISE LAWSON is an actress, theatre-maker and teacher based in New York and L.A. She teaches Clown and contemporary applications of the Russian Étude method – an improvisatorial rehearsal tool designed to propel an actor’s imagination into the world of the text. Her work focuses on developing students’ technique and style through their personal senses of play and unique identities.
As an actress, Annelise often works in collaborative processes with international artists – including Dmitry Krymov, company members of Teatr Zar, and Tanztheater Wuppertal. She has performed regionally and internationally, including engagements at Signature Theater, HERE Arts Center, the LungA Art Festival, and The Araca Project, and has assistant directed at The Public. Her solo film Close-up won the NY Indie Theatre Film Fest, and she was named Best Actress by the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago Awards.
Annelise is on faculty at The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and The New School for Drama. She’s also taught at The Stella Adler Studio, Completely Ridiculous Conservatory, The Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, and abroad at The LungA Festival and Platform Skorohod in St. Petersburg. She is a founding faculty of The Pandemonium Studio with Christopher Bayes. She has an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama, a B.A. summa cum laude in Theatre Arts from Carleton College, certificates in acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School & the British American Drama Academy, and is a graduate of the iO training program in Chicago.
Class cancellation policy: No refunds, exchanges, or transfers.