🗓 TBD, but most likely 10 classes over 2 weeks, 11/11-11/22

🕰️  Every evening, excepting Sunday, 6pm-10pm (you’re reading that correctly)

🗺 Chez Bushwick: 304 Boerum St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

💰 TBD, somewhere in the range of $900-1000

👥 Class limited to 14 students

📋 Interest form

Hi, this is Tyler, one of the workshop producers talking to you. Pochinko clowning was the best transform-y workshop thing I’ve ever done. So I asked master teacher Sue Morrison to teach it again in NYC this November.

Pochinko combines European with Native American sacred clown traditions to do “a sort of 'reverse therapy', in which instead of ridding oneself of anxieties, the clown performer leans into their own insecurities and foibles in order to package them as comedy."

Pochinko is hard to find & this intensive has a measly 14 spots, so if this strikes a chord with you, note your interest here ASAP! Once we finalize dates, venue, and cost, we’ll start admitting people.

What to expect

The less you expect, the better actually. But if you really need things to expect, here’s my Twitter review of it for anyone curious. (Note that it’s PO-chinko clowning, not PA-chinko – damn autocorrect!)

The Facilitator

Sue Morrison is a world-class teacher of performance-oriented Clown and Bouffon. An experienced performer, she is a sought after show creator, director, and consultant who has been instrumental in redefining clown for today’s world.

As a teacher, Sue’s approach is oriented to the individual, with an intense focus on developing and releasing each student’s potential to bring them to a new level. Her intensive workshops allow for the emotional excavation necessary to evolve stellar performances, as exemplified by her many students in global powerhouses Cirque du Soleil, Second City, Blue Man Group, Slava’s Snow Show and as individual performers internationally. Read more about Sue here.

The Producers

Tyler Alterman is a writer and venture culturalist from NY. Is that right? Wait, let me try again. Tyler Alterman is a cofounder of FractalU, an experimental university which–– No, that’s not right. Tbh Tyler Alterman is a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas. Was that funny, or just pretentious? Tyler Alterman is a name where if you repeat it enough times it starts to lose its meaning. Cognitive scientists call this phenomenon “semantic satiation.” Hey, is anyone still reading this?

Bridget MacAvoy  is a writer and works in arts philanthropy. Previously, she was in publishing and taught English abroad. She enjoys crafting and throwing experimental parties and is working toward reforming arts patronage models.