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CLOWN AND ACTING CLASSES

NOTICE: Hanover Theatre Conservatory is NOT a mask-required space. However, I will always wear a respirator and have far uvc and hepa filtration in all of my classes.

STILLS FROM SESSIONS 1 & 2 AT LAST DITCH

JUMP IN!
Clown for Stage

Session 1 is Thursday February 5, 2026

"Simple, Present. Curious. Playful".

LAST DITCH BAR, 6-9 pm $10

10 Fiske Ave Greenfield

Wheelchair access, open captioned, masks required and provided. Class material adjusted to needs of participants

Image description: 3 blurry figures on a black floor, swinging their legs with their arms raised, each is in front of a folding chair.

MORE ABOUT CLOWN CLASSES!

PHILOSOPHY

Theatrical Clown is a state of being oneself as poetry:

Raw and refined,

Chaotic and ordered,

Magnified and specified,

With an acute awareness of the environment and immediate access to impulses and responses.

TENETS

Availability

Generosity

Failure

Flexibility

Recovery

GOAL

Strive to find and maintain a state of simplicity, presence and curiosity

Locate and name physical and emotional responses to exercises

Utilize senses, impulses, experiences, gestures and breath to build material

Students will actively partner, propose, respond and report inside devised performance material

EXPECTATIONS

Students will be asked to exercise the following in the classroom:

Awareness, alertness, altruism and artistry.

ACCESS

Wheelchair accessible, mask-required, ASL or captioned as requested, work adjusted to needs of participants.

PRICING

Donations appreciated but not required.

LOCATION/DATE/TIME

Email [email protected] for more information.

Clown for stage class Image of two pairs of legs from below the knees. On the left, cuffed blue jeans and purple doc marten boots. On the right, jeans tucked in to black doc martin boots.

Last Ditch Bar 10 Fiske Ave Greenfield 10 dollars Thursdays 6 to 9 pm February 5, 12 and 26

Photo credit: Joe Mazza at BraveLux

Jump In! Goal: devise earnest, subsurface, objectionable and unrelenting live material: music, poetry, acrobatics, magic, puppets, dancing and oddities

Access: wheelchair accessible, mask required, captioned. Work adjusted to needs of participants

Teaching Philosophy

PAST OFFERINGS

JUMP IN! Clown for Stage Session 2: Object Work Thursday, February 12, 2026 LAST DITCH BAR, 6-9 pm $10 10 Fiske Ave Greenfield Wheelchair access, open captioned, masks required and provided. Class material adjusted to needs of participants. Image description: The top half of a face. Wild dark hair, black smeared eyeliner, aggressive eyebrows, red clown nose. Mouth not visible, tops of bare shoulders. Hand holds a notebook with the following words in red, pink, black and white: JUMP IN! Clown for Stage Session 2: Object Work Feb 12, 2026