Spring 2025

BOUFFONS WORKSHOPS 2027

With Sophie Amieva

notAmuse NY workshops

-- Bouffons Evening Series TBA

📅 TBA January/February

📍 TBA NY

--Bouffons WEEK Intensive -

 📅 March 8th to 12th from 10am to 4pm
📍 Chez Bushwick, 304 Boerum St. Brooklyn, NY

Out of Town

Week intensive Aug.16th to 20th 2027 Le Samovar Clown School, France

EARLY BIRD AND SIGN- UP

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

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.

FREE TICKET HERE