Kenny Raskin: Follow The Laugh
The Rockwell, 255 Elm Street, Somerville, MA
Admission: $80 – $225
Kenny Raskin: Follow The Laugh This workshop is designed for those who yearn to be clowns, or for those who just want to use these skills to enhance their acting chops. Clowns live in a world of spontaneity, flexibility and distractibility. They follow their noses, and the rest of their senses as well. This workshop is designed to help you find the part of yourself that connects you to your physicality and spontaneity, sparking wonderfully creative ideas on stage. To create comedy, one must create surprise. To do that, one must surprise oneself. My students initially work without thought, without ideas, but rather with their direct contact with the world. In this way they learn to create accidents, to see them coming — in a sense, to make them intentional. We also learn to listen to the audience, as they often tell the performer what is happening. That is why I tell my students to “follow the laugh!” If they laugh, something is worth exploring… SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: kenny.raskin.7 / Instagram: @kennyraskin / LinkedIn: kennyraskin INSTRUCTOR BIO: For the past forty years, Kenny Raskin has made a name for himself worldwide as a leading physical comedian and teacher of clowning. He…