A 1 day clown workshop with Piotr Szczęsny Sikora, creator of the punk-rock comedy show, Furiozo. Celebrate imperfection and turn failure into creative fuel through the power of clown. Discover the joy of being fully yourself under the spotlight, take risks, embrace the unexpected, and unlock your unique potential—on stage and in life! All levels welcome.
The workshop aims to learn how to better make friends with our lack of being perfect, the part of us that is completely unfunny and funny, and learn to play with this imperfection, to use failure as a beautiful gift from the world.This workshop helps you connect with this creativity and discover the pleasure of being yourself, when everyone is looking at you… Sounds scary? Only a bit, but mostly it is pure fun.The course is intended to familiarize you with being yourself on stage, taking more risks both on stage and in life. A bit like learning to fall – when you know how to fall – you risk more, make different moves, and increase the range of your possibilities.It’s the same with the Being Bad course – through seemingly embarrassing practice situations, you learn exceptional stage and life sensitivity. You will learn that the most interesting things are when you don’t know.
WHAT WILL WE ACTUALLY DO?
We will work on how to use our real emotions to enrich our stage skills, how to play with them on stage, maintain eye contact with the audience and how to be sensitive to the energy of our show, and how to discover comedy using the body. We will explore this using various games and activities, and although they are demanding, they are fun. The exercises are a series of ridiculous situations in which you will potentially experience multiple failures. The participant’s task is to play with 100% of their ability to be funny and beautiful. This leads to many failures and situations in which you are not funny at all – and this is where we will discover our creativity.It is important for me to create a very safe and supportive atmosphere in which you can easily open up about all these seemingly very difficult topics.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
As a rule, the course is for people who work with creativity and human emotions on a daily basis – improvisers, actors, circus performers, singers, directors, magicians, writers, therapists, musicians. In practice – for everyone who is looking for authenticity, freedom to be yourself, no matter what, and is curious about the world.“Workshop unlike any other. It opened me like a can opener to a can of corn. I see more on stage, I feel more – I am simply “more”. Be sure to check out the poetry of stupidity, maybe it will change your life too…?” Alan“This workshop, unlike many other workshops I have participated in, permanently changed my way of perceiving being on stage by taming one of the most difficult spheres of performance (especially in the field of illusion) – failure. My freedom on stage increased, my contact with the audience improved, and I became a braver and much more conscious performer.” Bartosz
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
My name is Piotr Sikora, a Polish clown and comedian with a passion for exploring the rich world of clowning and physical comedy. My journey has led me to create the original, award-winning comedy show Furiozo: Man Looking For Trouble. In 2024, Furiozo earned “The Besties” award at the Edinburgh Fringe and was nominated for the Comedians Choice Award for Best Show in both 2023 and 2024, it also made it to the Guardian's list of Best Comedy Shows 2024. My workshops are built on techniques I’ve gathered from theater schools across the globe, from Los Angeles to Paris and San Miniato.
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ABOUT THE 2025 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, honoring Václav Havel, is a showcase of contemporary European theater organized each year in New York City. Conceived in 2017 as a shared endeavor of the Václav Havel Center (VHC) and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA), the festival honors the legacy of Czech playwright, dissident and political thinker Vaclav Havel.
Each edition of Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival addresses current sociopolitical trends in Central and Eastern Europe, offering New York audiences a unique opportunity to witness the region’s theatrical zeitgeist.
The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.