NY Clown Theatre Presents AMUSE BOUCHE 2013 at The Brick, Now thru 9/28

Physical Theatre Workshop involves contemporary mime, applied mask (no mask), mimicry, object manipulation, and Lecoq based theatrical tools. This introduction to physical theatre creation covers articulation of the body, interactions with each other, puppetry of bodies and objects, and physical presence in movement and space. Participants will learn how to isolate their movements, inhabit their own body, and devise dynamic original and highly physical creations. We will look at ourselves from a new perspective and discover our unique tics and physical eccentricities, working out how these fit in with other people and other objects.

9/21 from 10am to 4pm 9/22 from 10am to 4pm $225 for both days

Performances:

In the Boudoir

by Summer Shapiro

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Matters of the heart can be messy and In the Boudoir delights in making a mess. New York comedienne Summer Shapiro returns to the Brick for her fifth time with this deceptively simple story of a young female clown?s love life. Veering erratically and erotically between exactitude and befuddlement, control and rashness, beauty and broken, Shapiro plays with the consuming need to be liked and revels in the futility of such a hunger.

50 minutes

9/26 at 7pm 9/27 at 9pm 9/28 at 7pm

Members of Our Limbs

Kallo Collective

Idea, realisation and performers: Jenni Kallo, Sampo Kurppa and Thom Monckton
Lights: Elina Nopanen
Costumes: Tauko

Patterns of the ordinary world are broken apart when given this treatment by three hopeless and unpredictable clowns. They put the principles and new influences of clowning on an operating table, select a suitable set of body parts, and construct a clown Frankenstein you?ve never seen before. Promoted by Finnish Circus information Center, Arts Promotion Center Finland and City of Helsinki

70 Minutes 9/18 at 8pm 9/19 at 8pm 9/20 at 7pm

Porno

Denni Dennis? Company Clowns & Mr. and Mrs. Clark

Cultural Office

Featuring Adina Valerio, Aimee Animal, Audrey Crabtree, Clare Parry-Jones, Denni Dennis, GaretH Clark and Jenny Sargant.
Costumes by the Russian costume designer L.- A. Vetangi

It's not a normal night in the sisters Sex Shop. Tonight a famous Porn Star is coming by to promote her new movie, some Dissatisfied Customers have ended up in the "bondage for beginners" workshop, and there is 20% off all dildos. The Brick Theater, Inc., Denni Dennis? Company Clowns and Mr. and Mrs. Clark present Porno. A clown production based on Denni Dennis? physical mime/ dance technique. Performed with international clown artists in collaboration with Mr. and Mrs. Clark?s grotesque and poetic music and the talents of a local US porn stars. Through, clown, physical comedy and music, porno plays with clichés and stereotypes about sex shop patrons, purveyors and porn stars, while bringing to light society's expectations, prejudices highlighting the pleasure, pain and commerce of the sex industry. Funded by Art Council of Wales and wales art International

50 Minutes
9/21 at 10:30pm at The Brick
9/24 at 10pm at Babeland Soho in Manhattan, 43 Mercer St New York, NY 10013 9/27 at 10pm at Babeland Soho in Manhattan, 43 Mercer St New York, NY 10013

Temptation

Kallo Collective

Story and Direction by Dave Quay
Featuring Tiffany Morgan Baker, Molly Bernard, Austin Purnell, Dave Quay, Annabelle Rollison, and Alexander Salamat.
Lighting by Cecilia R. Durbin
Sound Design by Stanton Nash
Set/Props by Alina Smirnova and Daniel Soule

Until Next Time, a comic pantomime, tells the mostly true story of a clown confronting the end. In a hospital ICU, the clown's lover lies unconscious, barely responsive, and basically humorless. By her bedside, he remembers their past, encounters their present, and looks to their future while fending off an absurdist world of antagonistic medical equipment, unsympathetic hospital staff, and the prospect of saying goodbye.

60 Minutes

9/21 at 7pm 9/27 at 7pm 9/28 at 3pm

What If I'm Dead?