Come together with other performers in a safe, structured environment to work-out your play muscles and play out your work muscles. Lead by experienced teacher/performers, John Leo and Andy Sapora, the class will be an opportunity to work closely with other performers, develop partnering trust and rhythms, and most of all, just get up on your feet and do stuff. Bring in something you've always wanted to try, or just show up and be guided through challenging exercises in clown and improv personally tailored to your level and need. With an emphasis on emotional and physical safety combined with opportunities for big fun risk and big fun payoffs. Classes are drop-in/pay as you go or save money by signing up in advance for all five sessions.
$25/session at the door.
$20/session if you sign up on paypal at least 24 hours in advance
$85/if you sign up for all five sessions in advance
Two slightly perverted but naively well-intentioned mutes drag each other through life with only each other's mischievous cruelty to keep them warm. With voyeuristic vaudeville bits...
Two slightly perverted but naively well-intentioned mutes drag each other through life with only each other's mischievous cruelty to keep them warm. With voyeuristic vaudeville bits and surrealist non sequitors, John Leo and Jay Dunn marry Beckett's existential bleakness, the Marquis de Sade's power-games, and Keaton's comedic sincerity. Both epic and infinitesimal, these gentleman comrades will laugh you out of your seat while they steal it from under you.
Come check out new material from Jay Dunn and John Leo at the
Amuse Bouche: A NY Clown Theatre Festival Hors d’Oeuvre
Clown Cabaret
WEDNESDAY, September 14, 2011, 8pm
Hosted by The Donovan Ensemble
Directly from their summer tour The Donovan Ensemble hosts this night of clown antics, featuring: Emmett and Merril and their popular comedy stylings. Former Ringling clown Emily Carragher in How to Catch a Man. Festival veteran Vincenzo Tortorici, doing an adaptation of Brecht’s Baden Lehrst or Mr...
The Pinks & Handshake Uppercut How the Pinkerton Detectives defeat the Lincoln Assassins and foil the Wild Rose of the Confederacy, No. 1 Tuesday, June 14 at 7:30PM
at Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002 between Rivington and Delancey F to 2nd Ave, J to Delancey, B/D to Grand, 6 to Spring
Crime, capers and endless fake mustaches. It’s 1860 and the Pinkerton Detectives uncover a plot to assassinate president-elect Lincoln. Kate Warne, the first female detective, and her bumbling pa...
I'll be teaching Clown (INTENSIVELY) at EARTHDANCE'S Western Mass. Moving Arts Festival
August 4 (Thursday evening) - August 7 (Sunday afternoon)
The Clown's Job with John Leo
The Clown's Job: be seen...seeing! Zen Buddhism's Beginners Mind will be the jumping off place for this investigation into the painfully silly quality of Now. We'll play fiercely in a nurturing, gun-to-yer-head environment, listening for the unexpected in ourselves, in our bodies and in the audience. So...dip your feet...
354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues).
Ready to (Blank) is a highly physical improv group that creates
spontaneous theater for intimate spaces. Movement, text and sound are
woven, smashed and twisted together to tr...
Get ready... Not only is it America's favorite Mexican holiday, it's also the birthday of the Maestrosities! That's right, May 5th is ¡Cinco de Maestro! Come celebrate with us at Dixon Place! A very special show, featuring very special guests: The awe-inspiring & mystifying magnificence of The Amazing El Macho del Norte (& John Leo)! The absurdly adorable and awesomely talented, Uke-Lola! The magic moves and madcap mayhem of the Leroy Sisters! The sweetly melodious and savagely com...
Triskelion
Arts is psyched silly to be presenting this unique program, a
five-night festival that showcases 22 hand-selected works by an arsenal
of some of the funniest choreographers, dancers, physical improvisers
and clowns from New York City and beyond. Be prepared for an assault of
the goofy, daring, and not-so-serious sensibilities we all secretly
crave. Detailed festival schedule below.
will have it's FIRST PERFORMANCE (ever!) on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at Studio A.I.R.
with... Ready to ________
Jackie Moynahan
Stephanie Sleeper Violeta Tellez John Wheeler-Rappe
Doors open at 8pm and the show begins by 8:30.
To keep the series running, we ask for suggested donation
of $5 and/or bring food or drink to the reception.
Studio A.I.R. is located at 67 Metropolitan, 4th Floor, (between Wythe and Kent) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
L train to Bedford Avenue... Continue reading...
I'll be teaching: Clown in Contact with John Leo . Haven't you looked at
contact improvisation and said to yourself, "this stuff is WEIRD! and really FUNNY!"
In this class we'll expand on the comedic potential of contact improv.
Using extreme contrasts, timing and stillness we'll delve into...
Friday, December 3 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, December 4 at 3:00 pm
PS 15 — The Patrick F. Daly School
71 Sullivan Street, Brooklyn
Admission is free.
Off the Hook is a free program for youth who are 11 - 14 years old to write and act in their own plays. Kids learn theater basics working 1:1 with adults. Plays get finished during a field trip out of the neighborhood. There are two Saturday rehearsals then kids and adults perform the plays. Continue reading...
I'll be doing a short improvisational Dance Theater-ish piece with Amy Larimer as part of a new project: Spontaneous Vaudeville! Scoros Torpeo Presents: House of Horror!!!
Time: Friday, October 29 · 8:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: The Panetta Movement Center
214 West 29th Street, 10th Floor
Starring: Maryanne Chaney, Elise Reynard, Jon Gundel, and Spontaneous Vaudeville
The show will be roughly 45 minutes and will be a relaxed and fun way to begin your Halloween celebrations. Come join us!!!
Or... Continue reading...
I'll be performing in a Very Interesting, INTENSE piece with Jay Dunn as part of a CLOWN CABARET
Hosts: Hilary Chaplain, Audrey Crabtree
Thursday, September 23rd @ 10:30pm The Brick Theatre 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
(between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) Subway Directions: Take the L train to the Lorimer stop or the G train
to the Metropolitan stop and the theater is less than one block away. Price: $15
I'll be teaching "Clown in Contact" & "The Performer's Presence" at this years: Western Massachusetts Moving Arts Festival @ Earthdance, August 6 - 8 with Angie Hauser,
Martin Keogh, and Leigh Evans
plus Cynthia McLaughlin, Eric Huther, Felice
Wolfzahn, Heather Kuhn, Jennifer Hicks, John Leo, Julia Handschuh
Contact Improvisation, Performance
Improvisation, Contemporary Butoh plus Action Theater, Site Specific
improvisation, Voice, Clown, Somatic forms, and much more!
"John challenges students to
continually go deeper in their self-awareness, to use their emotions
intelligently, and to use this power to connect with an audience."
Edy
Rodewald, former student
From fancy to flop to flight, the
world of Clown is full of extremes. In solo, duo, trio, and group work,
we'll examine status, minimum to maximum, letting go to the moment &
keeping it simple. Come play in a safe, but challenging class ...
CWB returns to Guatemala and also
ventures into El Salvador to work with children and their communities
that were hit by Hurricane Stan and Storm Ida. The group will
collaborate with Poyecto Payaso and Save the Children.
John’s Journal
April 15, 2010
Two days ago I was in alone in a hospital
room (bacterial infection in the gut and dehydration) hooked up to an
IV, making an hourly pilgrimage to the bathroom- a ten days worth of
Guatemala and ...
