Specialty Workshops

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Clowning and the 5 Senses w/ Elf Lyons

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SATURDAY 27th APRIL & SUNDAY 28TH APRIL | $280 / $252

Clowning and the 5 Senses

This Year’s Adelaide Comedy Award Winner, comedian and theatre maker Elf Lyons leads a high intensity, fun and pro-active workshop for artists who want to push themselves.

Using a combination of clown, bouffon, puppetry, mime and devising exercises Elf has developed and refined over her years of teaching, Elf will guide you on how to use the five senses to create multi-sensory, memorable, immersive experiences between yourself and your audience.

Suitable for artists of all creative and performance disciplines: dance, theatre, comedy, live art and cabaret. This course is perfect for experienced performers who are keen to take their work to the next level and push themselves creatively.

Elf Lyons is an award winning theatre practitioner and clown teacher who has toured and taught clown all around the world. She is the teacher of the London Soho Theatre’s Comedy Labs + Course.

If This Is True, What Else is True with Steen Raskopoulos

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SATURDAY 27TH APRIL 1PM-4PM | $150

This workshop teaches you to use the offers you’ve already created to enrich your world and characters. It teaches you the importance of not searching for new ideas all the time but rather relying on the beautiful things you’ve already created.

Steen Raskopoulos is an award winning comedian and actor. He is one of the founders of ITS and one half of Australia’s most dynamic improv duo’s ‘The Bear Pack’

LEVEL 5 + of any reputable Improv school is needed in order to participate in this workshop.

This class is a three hour session at Improv Theatre Sydney.

CLOWNING AROUND WITH JEROMAIA DETTO

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SATURDAY 18TH MAY 10AM-4PM | $130-$155

Award winning physical comedian Jeromaia Detto is back with another one day exploration of all things clown. This one day experience will focus on play, sensitivity and freedom on stage.

Jeromaia Detto is an award winning Melbourne based comedian with over 10 years of performance experience. He specialises in improv and clown, having completed studies in Sydney, Chicago, Oslo and in Paris, with  clown master, Philippe Gaulier.

Open to any level of performer.

This class is a six hour session (including a break) at Improv Theatre Sydney.

OBJECTWORK: HOW TO ENGAGE THE STAGE

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SUNDAY 19TH MAY 10AM-1PM | $75-$90

Bringing the space to life can be challenging in any improv scene. Led by award winning comedian and national improv champion Jeromaia Detto, this short course will equip you with a range of skills and techniques to elevate your object work to the next level.

Jeromaia Detto is an award winning Melbourne based comedian with over 10 years of performance experience. He specialises in improv and clown, having completed studies in Sydney, Chicago, Oslo and in Paris, with  clown master, Philippe Gaulier.

Open to any level of improviser.

This class is a three hour session at Improv Theatre Sydney.