Led by Dean Evans
June 12 – June 18
Expand your range of movement and learn to embody your creative expression with exacting precision. Mime is essential for the modern theater creator’s toolbox, and in this class you’ll learn the techniques of Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Stefan Niedzialkovski, and the unique style of American Mime. With just your body, you’ll learn to create rich environments, nuanced characters, and tap into limitless worlds of play for storytelling and improvisation.
Through a disciplined and playful approach that includes floor and barre work, and performance exercises, you’ll build skills to develop and perform innovative new works of theater and to move with joy and confidence. In this workshop you will use the writing structures and visual poetry of mime to create original compositions to find your own artistic voice.
Cost
Now through May 1 (Early Bird Rate):
– Workshop with standard double-occupancy room: $720
– Workshop with single room: $1,080
Starting on May 2:
– Workshop with standard double-occupancy room: $800
– Workshop with single room: $1,200
Multiple Workshop Discount (5%) is available for participants taking more than one workshop.
Register Today
There are three steps to register:
1) Make a deposit via Eventbrite to reserve your slot in the workshop via.
2) Fill out an application via a Google Form. Applications include the submission of a resume and headshot.
3) Read the General Info page to learn everything you need to know about workshops at the Barn.
Dean Evans
With twenty years of experience writing, performing, and directing within the art of mime, Dean Evans holds a unique perspective on the art and its practice. Steeped in the techniques of Marcel Marceau, Stefan Niedzialkowski, and Etienne Decroux, he is a Los Angeles-based professional performer, writer, and director. He was named one of the top fifty “players” by Newcity magazine. He has performed with the Second City, iO, the Goodman, and Cirque du Soleil, and as a solo artist around the world. He is an ensemble member of the renowned performance art collective the Neo-Futurists. He is known for his physical performance and characters, including the entity who goes simply by Honeybuns. Honeybuns has enjoyed their own career performing in New York City, Chicago, Moscow, Austin, and Los Angeles.
Dean has created over a dozen full-length theatrical productions, various immersive experiences and alternate realities, three full-length circuses, and dozens of comedic characters. He has appeared on NBC, Russia’s минута славы, the Onion Network, and various commercials and television. Recently Dean choreographed mime vignettes for the television show Ultra City Smiths now on AMC. Dean has been on faculty at Columbia College, the Second City Training Center, Aloft Circus Arts, and the Actors Gymnasium. He has taught as a guest artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Big Apple Circus clown care unit, UIC, Oberlin College, the Ohio State University, Lake Forest College, and more. Dean was the founder and artistic director of Chicago Physical Theater. To learn more, visit deanevans.net.
