Instructor: Moshe Cohen

2-day workshop: March 9 & 10

Time: 12:30pm - 5:30 pm

Cost: $250

About the Workshop

This workshop offers participants an opportunity to deepen, reconnect, refresh, and expand your clown world. Paralleling Richard Pochinko’s methods, the workshop brings participants in touch with the inner energies driving your outwards expressions. Participants will invite their clowns to integrate butoh’s ‘being part of the space’ and ‘being danced’ to help create in-depth internal connection that strengthens the clown’s external clarity and physical expression. Slowing down also gives your clown tools to explore and develop material by decomposing actions to reveal the series of moments and fundamental energies driving them, and offering pathways to embody these energies and play (with) them. Butoh clown is also a great pathway to let go of verbal expression and expand your non-verbal universe.

About the Instructor

Moshe has been clowning since the summer of 1983, when he quit his job at Merrill Lynch and traveled to Montreal to begin street performing on Rue Prince Arthur. Since then, he has performed worldwide over 1000 Mr. YooWho shows in theaters, festivals, umpteen informal venues, and numerous refugee camps. His journey into the funny passed through workshops with Richard Pochinko, Ctibor Turba, Sigfrido Aguilar, Phillipe Gaulier/Monica Pagneux, and the Roy Hart Theater. In 1993 he began studying butoh with Hiroko Tamano in Berkeley and then with Kazuo Ohno in Japan during a Bunka-cho (Japanese Cultural Ministry) fellowship. He continued to travel to Japan to study with Ohno sensei, and perform in festivals through 2011. Moshe clowned with Funny Bone Doctors in San Francisco (1995-1998) and has been part of the Medical Clown Project since 2018. 

More info at www.moshecohen.net