Wanna hang out with the heavy hitters from Cirque du Soleil? Stefan Haves physical comedy workshop at Gaulthier Artists Le Studio in Santa Monica might be one of your few chances.

OK, you were scared of clowns as a kid. Pooey. What’s wrong with you? I must admit, I was myself afraid of clowns as a kid, especially because I didn’t find them funny. Growing up, turns out, has a few advantages: one for example, you don’t find clowns scary and god forbid, if they’re good, you can find them even funny.

You know of course, that thanks to innovators like Cirque Du Soleil, circus crafts took a huge leap forward and now, the circus is not anymore what it used to be: thank God.

So as of late, physical comedy is just one more tool for the avant-garde performer, trying to get an edge.

But perhaps you’re wondering:

how can you benefit as an actor or performer from the histrionic skills of a clown? No, wait, let me re-phrase that:

How can you benefit as an actor or performer from the histrionic skills of the- world-renowned, Teatro Zinzanni creator and Cirque Du Soleil master clown, Stefan Haves? Fiiiiu… you see how much longer of a line I had to write just to fit all that in? And I’m just mentioning a couple of things in Stefan’s resume, really.

Although the answer should be obvious, I’ll let you take his personal class and find out. You can send me the thank you email to Sergio@socal.com

OK, enough silliness –not totally inappropriate for a clowning article-. Here are the facts:

Physical Comedy & Clowning For The Actor

Le Studio & Gaulthier Artists presents Cirque de Soleil Master of Clowns:

Stefan Haves

www.StefanHaves.com

Writer/Director of San Francisco’s critically acclaimed dinner circus

“Teatro Zinzanni “  2000-2006 www.zinzanni.org

Clown Talent Scout, Assistant Director during creation of the

Cirque Du Soleil touring show “Kooza.”  2007 www.cirquedusoleil.com/kooza

Tuesdays June 12 –July 3:   7:00 – 10:00 pm (ages 18 and up)

$200/ 4 week intensive training

(Recruiting/training for CLASS performance on August 31)

Le Studio

3025 West Olympic Blvd., STAGE A,

Santa Monica, CA 90404

RSVP: limited class size size

(310) 855-4353        info@gaulthierartists.com