Pandemonium Studio

Hey buddies - is out in LA next week for some Advanced Clown MAYHEM at and there are a few spots left!

If you’ve taken Clown for All, our Summer Intensive, or worked with Chris way back in when, come thru! Use code PANDA2 for 10% off when you enroll. Go to elysiantheater.com/classes to sign up.

Pandemonium Workshop (Advanced Clown)
Mon, Jan 12, 2026 - Fri, Jan 16, 2026
12pm-5pm

BOUFFON with Eric Davis


Saturday & Sunday, 12-5pm
November 22nd and 23rd
Playwrights Studios | 440 Lafayette St. | Manhattan, NY

THIS CLASS IS SOLD OUT. USE THE LINK IN BIO TO GET ON THE WAITLIST!

Unleash your inner Bouffon in an explosion of fun and comedy gold!

Imagine a wild-eyed pack of Players, ecstatic to mock anything and everything. Ridiculous, confronting and poetic, this Satyric chorus teeters on the edge of fun and uncomfortable truth.

How is Bouffon related to Clown? 
The World laughs at the Clown, but the Bouffons laugh at the World! 

Students will discover the attitude and drives of the Bouffon, through:
-   Ensemble play & Complicity
-   Chorus work
-   Finding the fun in mocking
-   Non-linear play.
-   Investigating dynamics of objects, actions, and roles

Join us! Fun, freedom and mischief await!

Suitable for actors, clowns, comedians, improvisers, dancers, devisors and anyone investigating pleasure, play and fun.

Whatcha doing this weekend? - https://mailchi.mp/7ea89bfe5659/the-great-big-summer-clown-zoomathon-ruckus-with-christopher-bayes-17445075

You're invited: Upstate weekend retreat! - https://mailchi.mp/1e6c78dd8719/the-great-big-summer-clown-zoomathon-ruckus-with-christopher-bayes-17444838 Join us upstate over Indigenous Peoples' Day weekend for a sweet lil' mess around.

It's Back! The Third First Ever Annual Great Big Upstate Clown & Move Around Weekend Retreat! 🍁🍂🍁 -

It's Back! The Third First Ever Annual Great Big Upstate Clown & Move Around Weekend Retreat! 🍁🍂🍁

We’ve just had some spots open up in Clown for All Weekend tomorrow and Sunday!

Clown for All Weekend with Christopher Bayes
Sat 9/13 - Sun 9/14
12pm - 5pm
Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY

Sign up at the link in bio!

COMMEDIA AND MASK
with
May 16th-20th in Brooklyn
Sign up link in bio
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Discover the world of Harlequino, Smeraldina, Pantalone, and other archetypes of the Commedia dell’Arte. Learn to bring the mask to life. Celebrate the vulgar, the romantic, and - of course - the profane. Students will learn to find character through physicality, improvise virtuosically, and find the lazzi (or the games, if ya wanna be all English about it). So come on! Live fully in your body. Investigate the actor/creator. Take ownership of your work and learn to live in the juicy moment of now!
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Starting to feel a little a little funny… well, then let’s get funny!

Beginning next week, the only Intro to Clown class in 2025! And there’s only 3 spots left!! Hit that sign up link in our bio and come play!!!

Intro to Clown
February 17th - 20th
12-5pm
@ JACK

Hey Bub! Wake ip from that pie daze, stop doom scrolling, and snag your spot in an oh-so-fun class with Christopher Bayes! Find some joy and bring some ruckus in our 2025 Clown classes.

Sign up between Friday 11/29 and Sunday 12/1 for $25 off your enrollment. Link in bio!

It’s back! Because this horrible mess of whatnot and wherefore is overwhelming. Join us for Laughing Club on Zoom today from 5-6pm EST. Link in bio!

Spend two weekends working with Red Bastard,

aka Eric Davis!!
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​Bouffon I
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Saturday & Sunday, 10-5pm
Monday, 6-10pm
November 2nd, 3rd and 4th
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$415

The Shape of Fun: Body, Architecture & Theme

Saturday & Sunday, 10-1.30pm
Monday, 6-9.30pm
November 9th, 10th and 11th
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$265

 $665 if you sign up for both!
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BOUFFON I

Unleash your inner Bouffon in an explosion of fun that turns life’s S**t into comedy gold!
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How is Bouffon different than Clown? The World laughs at the Clown, but the Bouffon laughs at the World!

Imagine a wild-eyed pack of outsiders. These outsiders have ecstatic pleasure to mock anything and everything. Ridiculous, mischievous, confronting and poetic, these tricksters ride the line between comic fun and uncomfortable truth.

In this class, students will discover the attitude and spirit of the Bouffon through:

- Ensemble play & Complicity
- Choral work
- Finding the fun in becoming and mocking
- Navigating rich thematic territories.
- Discovering hot spots that make the audience say “ouch!"
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THE SHAPE OF FUN: BODY, ARCHITECTURE AND MISCHIEF AWAIT!

What is the shape of fun? How do we use shape and rhythm to fascinate our audience? Charm them? Make them laugh? Disgust them?

Hunt for dynamic and fascination personas by changing your body’s architecture. Evoke provocative and ridiculous themes! What does it take to keep the mask of this new form alive in the space?
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Students in this class will explore:

TECHNIQUE
Tension
Fixed point
Contrasting Dynamics of Space/ Weight/ Time
Engaging rhythms.
shapes that “pop”

RAPPORT
Do you compel or repel the audience?
How can you manipulate us?

THEME
What themes does the shape evoke, or
Starting from theme, what shapes can express that theme in a fertile way?

Work with Eric Davis this Nov 2-4 and Nov 9-11 -

Work with Eric Davis this Nov 2-4 and Nov 9-11