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Clown Workshop at Gotham City Improv
Posted February 28, 2007
Note: posted as received.
CLOWN WORKSHOP AT GOTHAM CITY IMPROV!
Taught by Keland Scher and Ambrose Martos, clown professionals who have
acted and instructed around the world including performances with Cirque du
Soleil, Big Apple Circus, Slava's Snowshow, and more! Through the experience
of imagination, creativity, innocence, and play, we invite the actor to
discover or rediscover his or her sense of gravity and levity, range of
breath, physical awareness and emotional connection. By reconnecting with
developmental patterns formed in childhood, combined with the pleasure of
the clown nose, the actor learns there is comfort and joy in openly giving
and receiving on the stage. We allow our students the freedom to find joy
in the unknown. Playing in the unknown is how the magical, fantastic space
between audience and actor is created.
Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 11 12:00-4:00
Tuition for the full weekend is $150.
SPECIAL OFFER! If you're able to pay for the Clown Workshop in full before
the first day of class, you're entitled to a savings of $25! That's a full
weekend course for only $125 if you pay by March 9th! More details
regarding class content and enrollment can be found at
www.gothamcityimprov.com.
Call to sign up now! (212) 367-8222
GOTHAM CITY IMPROV
48 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor
(between 5th and 6th Avenues)
TEACHER BIOS
Keland Scher has been teaching for 8 years and recently accepted a post as
an assistant professor of theater and movement at Chicago's Roosevelt
University. He has worked as a professional actor on Shakespeare, classical
pieces, original devised ensemble creations and contemporary pieces,
improvisational theater, buffoon, and clown work for such companies as the
Cincinatti Shakespeare Festival, the Alliance Theater (Atlanta), Out of Hand
Theater (Atlanta), and the Big Apple Circus. He has taught for York
University (Toronto),Cirque du Soleil, Emory University (Atlanta), and the
Big Apple Circus. Keland has professionally coached, choreographed and
directed theater for the past 6 years. He received his MFA in acting and
received a diploma in the teaching of movement for actors from York
University. He also has a certification in embodied developmental yoga from
the School for Body-Mind CenteringR (Amherst, MA). He has also studied with
Avner Eisenberg (Celebration Barn), Kenny Raskin (Cirque du Soleil), Jeff
Wirth, Mike Kennard (Mump & Smoot).
Ambrose Martos began his clown training at the Ringling Bros. Clown College
in 1997 where he studied with Bill Irwin (Fool Moon), Barry Lubin (Big Apple
Circus), Dick Monday (New York Goofs) and Larry Pisoni (Pickle Family
Circus). He also trained in NYC with Philippe Gaulier, Richard Crawford (The
Flying Machine), Dave Storck (Gotham City Improv) and Chris Bayes. Ambrose
toured North America in 2006 as a principal clown with Cirque du Soleil's
"Quidam". In August, he and his physical comedy trio Happy Hour had their
show "It Takes 3" produced by the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival. In 2005, he performed in the award-winning Off-Broadway hit
"Slava's Snowshow" at the Union Square Theater. He was a finalist in the
2006 Andy Kaufman Comedy Competition and once had his roller skating disco
act described as "brave comedy" by ABC's Diane Sawyer. He is a member
of The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit.
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