This class is limited to 14 students.

Level 1: Welcome to Clown Town

Clown. The Great Equalizer.

"It's you, of course, the clown. And that's important." -Nader Farman

Clown trains us to be fully present. Class curriculum includes exercises from Jacques Lecoq, Jean Taylor, Merry Conway, Nader Farman, Keith Johnstone and more, aiming to move us past ego and toward our shared humanity. Winter is coming. But class is joyful and warm! Come on out, try on the red nose.

Recognize the universal shared experience that is clowning.

This class culminates in a class show at the BCC Pig Pen.

7-Week Class: Tuesdays, 7:00p - 10:00PM, September 2nd - October 14th

• Note: Class may end between 9:30 - 10:00 PM depending on the number of enrollments.

Where: The BCC DogHouse, Studio #2 (137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11206)

Class Show: Saturday, October 18th. 8:30pm. BCC Pig Pen.

Teacher: Jeff Seal

Bio:

Jeff Seal is a graduate of the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center and studied Decroux-based corporeal mime at the Hippocampe Project in Paris. He performs regularly with his two-man clown act, Jeff and Buttons, makes comedy videos with Bankrukt Productions and is one of the founding artistic directors of Cloud City Theater and Art space. His films and documentaries have been published by The New York Times, The Discovery Channel, AJ+, gothamist.com and screened at The Tribeca Film Festival.

Testimonials:

Jeff is an incredible coach and director. I loved Jeff's pragmatic teaching style, which really lends itself to the Level 3 Clown course. I think his best strength as a teacher was meeting us where we were with whatever ideas/bits we brought in and helping us figure out what was working or not (and how it would be different performing in front of the audience than in front of the rest of the class). Jeff put us in position to learn how the skills we had picked up in the earlier levels could be applied to an act that would work in front of an audience.

Jeff is really good at helping people find the game in their bits - this class is a great next step after Chris’ level 2.

Jeff's an inspiring director with tons of funny and creative ideas. He helped us develop our ideas into much stronger and tighter bits, with many more games than we would have thought to include, while helping us think about structure so that all those games came together in a cohesive way without getting confusing or going all over the place. He also has a great mind for comedic possibility and guided us to discover entire bits from even the smallest seeds of ideas.

If this class is sold out, sign-up for the wait list here.