with Aitor Basauri
August 18 – August 24
This workshop is currently sold out. You can join the waitlist for this workshop and we will be in touch when/if a spot opens up.
This workshop equips you with the tools to take your material from early conception through to production.
Along the way, you will learn how to:
- Create material from the smallest seed of an idea
- Build a number or a scene
- Spot our greatest ideas, which are often right under our noses (if only we know how to look)
- Keep the work fresh in performance.
We investigate the fundamentals—such as the use of costumes, props, lighting, and sound—and we explore more advanced concepts, such as writing tools, devising games, group dynamics, dramatic structure, physicality, and music.
The workshop attracts a wide range of artists—actors, directors, clowns, comedians, aerialists, and more. Regardless of your professional practice, you can apply the skills learned in this workshop in any kind of performance space, from purpose-built theaters and cabarets to variety stages, circus tents, and street corners.
Cost
Workshop with standard double-occupancy room with early bird discount: $1,080
The early bird discount (10%) expires on April 2.
Workshop with single-occupancy room: $1,800
There is no early bird discount for single-occupancy rooms.
Note: A $400 deposit is required when you register for a double occupancy room. A $900 deposit is required for a single occupancy room. The remainder of your balance will be due upon your arrival at Celebration Barn.
Registration
This workshop is currently sold out. You can join the waitlist via Humanitix by clicking on the button below.
Aitor Basauri
Aitor Basauri is joint artistic director, performer, and co-founder of Spymonkey. He is a performer, director, and one of the most eagerly sought-after teachers in the world for clown and physical comedy, a visiting tutor at the École Philippe Gaulier in Paris and Cirque du Soleil’s Cirque du Monde Foundation in Las Vegas. He teaches clown around the world in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Zurich, New York, Los Angeles, Colombia, and Mexico.
About Spymonkey
Since their inception in 1998 Spymonkey has created some of the most outstandingly original comedy theater, including Stiff, Cooped, Moby Dick, Oedipussy, and The Complete Deaths.
Television and stage appearances have seen them work alongside Sacha Baron Cohen, Naomi Campbell, Miranda Hart, Sandi Toksvig, Ronnie Corbett, Fiona Shaw, and Nick Frost.
Widely acknowledged as world leaders in the fields of clown and physical comedy, they are sought out as teachers, consultants, and directors for their insight and experience in creating brilliant, original, and singular work by organizations such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Their expanding program of professional masterclasses and workshops regularly sell out in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, and London.