notAmuse Theater
Sophie Amieva /// Theater Maker
Spring 2025
BOUFFONS WORKSHOPS 2026
With Sophie Amieva
notAmuse FALL 2026 NY workshop
📅 September 10th and 12th from 6-10pm and Sept. 12th 12-5pm
📍 Kestrels studio, 188 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Out of Town
Week intensive Aug. 17th to 21st 2026 Le Samovar Clown School, France
The room is vigorous, playful, inspiring, intelligent, and FUN! ...
- JULIA PROCTOR
Bouffon taught me how to be an honest and unapologetic performer...
- JIMMICA COLLINS
...Sophie introduced me to the complex and ecstatic work of buffon with a delightful combination of generosity, glee, and rigor.
- ALEX TATARSKY
... Sophie provides students with a realistic set of tools which ultimately enables them to become a physically stronger and unique performer...
- SPENCER NOVICH
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We will die... whether we laugh or not!
An evening with Bouffons! Talk by Sophie Amieva and performance with Hannah Gross, Kayla Juntilla, John Kang, Ryan Pater & Eleanore Pienta.
On Monday July 20th, we invite you to take a look at the origins of Bouffons as a tool to disrupt cruelty, anxiety and adversity to which our vulnerable lives are subjected to. Connecting the dots through Commedia dell’Arte, ancient Carnival rites and tricksters far beyond our patriarchal system, that naughty, kindred spirit evolves, and has many names, but is rigorously constant. Where humans are, they are!
Let‘s embrace together this instinct, this tool, this method: making laughter a practice towards letting go!
We will die... whether we laugh or not is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.