Students will perform at the Student Soiree for the Toronto Festival of Clowns

Fabulous news about two of our acting students!

Gerardo Canabate and James Jumaway have been selected to be a part of the Student Soiree at the Toronto Festival of Clowns on Sunday, June 3 at 8:30pm. They will both have the opportunity to receive a bursary to continue studying.

For more info about the performance, click here.

Break a leg guys! Come out and support our students at:

The Scotiabank Studio Theatre at The Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble St. on Sunday June 3rd at 8:30pm.

The Student Soirée features the best work to come out of recent physical theatre workshops from teachers across the country.  Attached to the night is the presentation of the second annual Mark Purvis Bursary that funds a students’ future study in physical performance.

In Term 3, Acting students take a movement course that focuses specifically on the art of Clown & Bouffon. This course is designed to help actors understand ideas of performance through physicality – one of the most important tools an actor has is their body.  Working in the tradition of clown and bouffon, this course challenges students to take risks, hone their improvisational skills and push through performance inhibitions to find the pleasure of being present, space, rhythm, fixed point, complicity, focus, flop and play.

In Bouffon, games and exercises will be used to discover students’ pleasure to mock social hypocrisies while simultaneously making audiences love you.  Bouffon is the fine art of satire, being the villain, and being mean.  In Clown, games and exercises are used to help students feel comfortable failing and looking ridiculous.  Essentially, clown is the fine art of playing the fool.

For more information about the Acting for Film, TV and the Theatre program click here.