Clown Workshop Weekend at The Beast Comedy Club

Would you like to get more in tune with your inner clown? The Beast Comedy Club is proud to host 2 workshops with award-winning clowns Piotr Sikora and Lilian Wenker. Find out how much clowning can give you, whether you work in the arts or not. 

Attend both "Being Bad with Piotr" and "The Idiot's Guide to creating a Solo Show with Lil Wenker" for the discount price of 150 CHF. If you are only able to attend one workshop, they individually cost 90 CHF.

In order to book a spot, reserve yourself the workshop here and you will receive an email with the details for payment.

1.11, 11am-4pm: Being Bad with Piotr
2.11, 11am-4pm: Creating and Honing your Solo with Lil Wenker

Being Bad with Piotr

The workshop aims to learn how to better make friends with our lack of being perfect, the part of us that is completely unfunny and funny, and learn to play with this imperfection, to use failure as a beautiful gift from the world.

This workshop helps you connect with this creativity and discover the pleasure of being yourself, when everyone is looking at you… Sounds scary? Only a bit, but mostly it is pure fun.The course is intended to familiarise you with being yourself on stage, taking more risks both on stage and in life. A bit like learning to fall – when you know how to fall – you risk more, make different moves, and increase the range of your possibilities.

It’s the same with the Being Bad course – through seemingly embarrassing practice situations, you learn exceptional stage and life sensitivity. You will learn that the most interesting things are when you don’t know.

WHAT WILL WE ACTUALLY DO?

We will work on how to use our real emotions to enrich our stage skills, how to play with them on stage, maintain eye contact with the audience and how to be sensitive to the energy of our show, and how to discover comedy using the body. We will explore this using various games and activities, and although they are demanding, they are fun. The exercises are a series of ridiculous situations in which you will potentially experience multiple failures. The participant’s task is to play with 100% of their ability to be funny and beautiful. This leads to many failures and situations in which you are not funny at all – and this is where we will discover our creativity. It is important for me to create a very safe and supportive atmosphere in which you can easily open up about all these seemingly very difficult topics.

WHO IS THIS FOR?
As a rule, the course is for people who work with creativity and human emotions on a daily basis – improvisers, actors, circus performers, singers, directors, magicians, writers, therapists, musicians. In practice – for everyone who is looking for authenticity, freedom to be yourself, no matter what, and is curious about the world.

The Idiot's Guide to creating your Solo Show with Lil Wenker

In this workshop, Lil Wenker (real name) will take you through her process of creating, honing, and touring solo shows. The focus will be on comedy shows, though artists of any discipline are welcome! The workshop will cover the following topics: 

1. Generating material, clarifying themes/aesthetics, finding loads of great jokes!
2. Structure! How to put it all together 
3. Refinement! How to turn ideas into a cohesive piece of work
4. How to assemble a creative team, even informally, to support your work
5. Touring your finished work

Lil’s work has toured all around US, UK, EU, and Australia. She’s played critically acclaimed and award-winning runs at Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and she’s performed as a company member with A. de Castro at the Norway Clown Festival.

The workshop will be interactive — a mix of group and solo exercises to get participants out of their heads and into the active process of MAKING. Please come with an idea, or ideas, at any stage for a solo show, and please bring a notebook and pen.
 

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