Red Nose Clown Workshop with Mycah Hogan

THIS IS A 2-DAY WORKSHOP! You must be available for both days

For as long as there have been humans, there have been clowns, and this new and exciting workshop with Mycah Hogan invites you to discover your unique clown through movement, improvisation, and the profound depth of play. Through a combination of somatic exploration and opportunities to wear “the smallest mask in the world” (the red nose), participants will uncover their unique individual movement patterns and learn to amplify the physical and emotional themes that already inhabit the body. This process reveals the traces of a “personal clown”: a comic persona that is rooted in your individual truth while touching the timeless nature of laughter.Open to all—actors, improvisers, directors, comedians, dancers, aerialists, teachers, facilitators, and anyone curious about the poetry of the ridiculous. No clown experience necessary. Come with a willingness to be vulnerable, to be incredibly stupid, to be nothing, to be everything, and to explore the stuff that makes us human. We’ll explore clown as a state and the fundamentals of performance while engaging with group dynamics, physicality, and the art of collaborative creation. This is clown as both artistic practice and personal journey—a dance of resilience, a celebration of what makes you uniquely, foolishly, beautifully you.

Bio
Mycah Hogan is a clown, educator, and community organizer. He is a performer, director, and one of the most innovative young teachers in the world for clown, mask, and physical acting. On faculty at Brown-Trinity Repertory’s MFA Program and NYU’s International Theatre Workshop, he teaches in Amsterdam, New York, Philadelphia, and in his home city of Providence, where he is committed to generating a legendary clown scene by providing affordable, conservatory-level actor training to the next generation of innovative theater artists.