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Description
CLASS IS HELD ON TUESDAY 6/14 & 6/21 FROM 6-9 PM
DESCRIPTION: Utilizing a variety of mask making techniques participants will be part of a workshop that builds a troupe of “Big-Headed” People that will be used throughout the community with Bruka Theatre in busking and unconventional theatrical situations. Lyndsey & Carrie will also share clowning and mask performance strategies with participants as we work together to devise a street performance for the Troupe.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Lyndsey Langsdale is a cultural anthropologist, farmer and artist in Reno, Nevada. She earned a Master’s degree in Applied Anthropology and has worked both locally and internationally in human rights advocacy, urban agriculture, ethnography and community organizing. Langsdale studied anthropology and art at the University of Nevada, Reno and Northern Arizona University focusing on Cultural Anthropology, sculpture, silversmithing and jewelry design. She has also studied theater clown with Giovanni Fusetti and Sue Morrison in Portland, OR, Toronto, Canada. For the past fourteen years, she has been working with local community theaters as a costumer. Lyndsey & Carrie Lynn create and perform together in shows such as Frankee & Matilde and Oblisk. Their studies and creation in mask, community, theatre and visual art make their work conceptual, cutting edge, exciting and important.
“By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.” - Emmett Kelly
“The Clown is not about making the audience laugh. The clown is about changing the way the audience breaths.” -Anonymous
Date & Time
May 14 - Jun 21, 2022
Venue Details
Brüka Theatre
99 North Virginia StreetReno, Nevada 89501
