Bouffon Intensive with Naked Empire Bouffon Company Artistic Director, Nathaniel Justiniano

This intensive is a crash course in bouffon performance with the only company in the United States exclusively dedicated to the research and performance of bouffon.

What you'll be learning and practicing:

Finding your personal bouffon

Entering into and creating within a state of ecstatic play

Choral, movement-based improvization

Mercurial acting techniques for shape-shifting between characters of heightened text and grace to those of base, groveling goblin prophets

Audacious and confrontational status play with the audience

Wielding stillness and silence like a scapel

Parodying social maladies and hypocrisies

Ramshackle techniques for on-the-fly costume creation

You do not need to have previous experience in this form of theatre, nor in performance at all. This is, however, an athletic, intensely physical form of theatre that demands the in-the-moment engagement of your intellect and perverse imagination.

If this resonates with you, we would love to see you here.

PLACE:

Pia Bouman Studio Theatre

DATES AND TIMES:

Friday April 18, 6-10pm

Saturday April 19, 11-5pm

Sunday April 20, 11-5pm

FEE:

$250 for 18 hours of instruction

20 discount for Union members

$50 deposit required to hold a spot.

Email Adam at adlazarus@rogers.com to register.

INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Nathaniel Justiniano is the founding artistic director of Naked Empire Bouffon Company, and an award-winning actor/creator and physical theatre instructor. He is a senior instructor at the new Clown Conservatory of San Francisco where he recently created and taught the United States most comprehensive bouffon training to date. He has served as the Director of Physical Comedy for the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, Movement Designer for UC Berkeley's Theater Department, and guest teacher of physical theatre at Sacramento City College and Kinetic Arts Center of Oakland. He holds an MFA from DellArte International School of Physical Theatre.

Company's website: www.nakedempirebouffon.org