Clown Class with Gemma Soldati

Discover and reunite with your playful spirit and comedic vocabulary in this workshop of fun. Using clown, physical games, and improvisation, we’ll explore our imagination, pleasure, and our relationship with an audience.

This workshop will help participants unleash their muse and confront their doubt. We will also use the development process of material in class as an inroad to learn more about ourselves, our peers, and our wildest dreams onstage. We’ll find what we may have lost or forgotten on our journey to become “good.”

This class is for folks of all experience levels who are ready to take their comedic practice to the next level in a supportive and creative environment.

DATES:
Jan 13
Jan 20 (MLK Day – No Class)
Jan 27 (alternate location in Somerville)
Feb 3
Feb 10
Feb 17 (Presidents’ Day – No Class)
Feb 24
Mar 3
Mar 10
Mar 17 (St Patrick’s Day – No Class)
Mar 24

TIME:

Check-in: 5:45pm
Class: 6pm-9pm

COST:

$400 + fees for all 8 classes, 3 hours each

Meet Gemma!

Gemma Soldati is a performing and teaching artist based. She cut her teeth teaching and performing in the Los Angeles clown scene at The Lyric Hyperion and The Elysian theatre before returning home to New Hampshire in 2019. Her focus is clown inspired work developed in front of live audiences. Her projects playfully dive deep into the heart of vital themes probing audiences with questions and meaning making – Grief, Ritual, Sleep, Dreams, Money, Power and beyond. She is currently a 2023/2024 resident at Ars Nova’s Makers Lab in NYC. Gemma won Best Comedy at the 2019 Melbourne Fringe with The Living Room. She also won Best Performance at the 2021 New Hampshire Film Festival with her children’s character, Sleepyhead. Gemma has studied with Betty Grumble, Paola Coletto, Deanna Fleysher, John Gilkey, Philippe Gaulier, Aitor Basauri, and Mick Barnfather.