ADMISSIONS
These programs are currently accepting applications:
To begin registration for any of our summer programs, complete the short Admission Survey.
This includes a couple of statements from you (written or video submission) on your interest as well as related background and experience. Upon review, you’ll be emailed a link to make your deposit payment and secure your spot. Some partial scholarships for students identifying as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color are available at checkout. NOTE: Early Bird Discounts & Scholarships cannot be combined
Please direct any questions to: schooladmin@dellarte.com
Clown PLUS
Details
- Dates:
June 24–July 5, 2024 - Tuition & Fees: $1,175 plus $25 processing fee
Discounts
Partial scholarships for BIPOC students are available. Connect with our School Administrator to apply. Discounts and scholarships cannot be combined.
Description
Clown PLUS is for those students who have begun their exploration of the territory of Clown and want to go a little deeper into the study. Use your ability to embrace the unknown, the vulnerable, and the ridiculous in order to create longer bits of clown performance. Be prepared to play ferociously! [READ MORE]
Participants can track directly from the Clown Core into Clown PLUS in the same year.
Introduction to Medical Clowning
Details
- Dates:
July 8–12, 2024 - Tuition & Fees: $575 plus $25 processing fee
Discounts
Partial scholarships for BIPOC students are available. Connect with our School Administrator to apply. Discounts and scholarships cannot be combined.
Description
The Clown’s great capacity for buoyancy and feeling through the unknown holds great power off the performance stage as well. In this weeklong intensive, participants can investigate how to use those skills for humanitarian purposes in places of healing. Some previous experience in one or more of the following is required: clowning, play / kinetic therapy, improv, teaching artistry. [READ MORE]
NOTE: This program runs at the same time as the Effort-Risk-Momentum-Joy Physical Theater Intensive.
Effort, Risk, Momentum, Joy Physical Theater Intensive 2024
Details
- Dates: July 8–26, 2024
- Tuition & Fees: $1,675 plus $25 processing fee.
Discounts
Partial scholarships for BIPOC students are available. Connect with our School Administrator to apply. Discounts and scholarships cannot be combined.
Description
An engaging three-week long intensive based on the approach of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, a renowned 50-year-old program that trains actors to command the time and space of the stage. The skillful, dynamic and easeful use of a performer’s body and voice is at the core of our curriculum. This intensive is appropriate for actors, dancers, directors, teachers, and designers. [READ MORE]
NOTE: This program runs at the same time as our Medical Clowning and Mask Making Intensives.
Mask Making Intensive
Details
- Dates: July 15–August 2, 2024
- Tuition & Fees: $1,675 plus $25 processing fee.
Discounts
Partial scholarships for BIPOC students are available. Connect with our School Administrator to apply. Discounts and scholarships cannot be combined.
Description
A workshop for designers, actors, teachers, and artisans looking to make professional quality theater performance masks that have a sustained life on the stage. Participants will make plaster positives of their faces and create at least two full-faced and/or ¾ faced character masks. Multiple processes will be explored, and significant attention will be given to the interplay of design and performance. [READ MORE]
NOTE: This program runs at the same time as the Effort-Risk-Momentum-Joy Physical Theater Intensive.
Clown Core 2024
Details
- Dates:
GROUP A: June 10–14, 2024- not taking applications
GROUP B: June 17–21, 2024 - not taking applications - Tuition & Fees: $575 plus $25 processing fee
Discounts
Partial scholarships for BIPOC students are available. Connect with our School Administrator to apply. Discounts and scholarships cannot be combined.
Description
The Clown Core is an exploration into the essential tools used to discover the unique clown that is already inside of each participant. Accept your own ridiculous stupidity, develop connection with the audience and sharpen your ability to embrace the unknown in order to create something new. [READ MORE]
Study Abroad: Bali
Details
Our next Bali trip will be in 2025. Stay tuned. [READ MORE ABOUT BALI ABROAD]
Non-Discrimination Policy
Dell’Arte International does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, gender identity, national origin, physical disability, sexual preference or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship programs and other school administered programs.