Montreal Clown Festival
Clown
Workshops
April 13 & 14 / April 19 & 20
Catherine Cédilot
Seeing and Being Seen
2 Days: Monday, April 13, 10 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday, April 14 2 PM – 6 PM
Location: La Porte Rouge, 750 rue Mistral
Price: $200.00 + tax
This workshop offers a combination of foundational exercises drawn from different approaches to clowning and performance. Each exercise is designed to place vulnerability at the service of one’s craft and creativity as a performing artist.
Objectives:
Emotional range, flexibility and availability, presence and connection to self and others, active listening and impulsive response, risking diving into the unknown, celebrating vulnerability.
Description
Discover the Meisner Technique, Pochinko clown exercises, and other playful propositions that invite you to step out of your comfort zone and into real human connection. All of this unfolds in a safe space, with humour and joy at its heart. Let’s allow ourselves to be seen in all our states!
Catherine Cédilot studied acting at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in NYC. She entered the Mime School of Montreal while exploring Butoh and Performing Arts approaches. She earned a master’s degree from L’École supérieure de théâtre de l’UQAM, where she developed communication presence through Sanford Meisner and Richard Pochinko techniques. She now works on and off stage as a clown, performer, coach, teacher or researcher. Live Arts are her way to study what makes us Human with a big H!
Alex Tatarsky
Clown Rot – SOLD OUT
Sunday: April 19, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Monday: April 20, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: 911 Rue Jean-Talon E. #220 Montréal, QC H2R 1V5
Price: $275.00
Clown Rot is a two-day immersive workshop that dives joyfully into decay, failure, mess, and transformation—the fertile ground where clowning truly lives.
In collaboration with Zani Clown And Comédie School.
Description
Participants are invited to explore what happens when things fall apart on stage: when control dissolves, when the body breaks down, when logic rots—and something raw, hilarious, and deeply human emerges. This workshop is an invitation to decompose old habits, soften control, and discover new theatrical life inside the mess.
- Play inside chaos, dirt, and disorder
- Embrace failure as a creative gift
- Turn embarrassment into theatrical gold
About Alex Tatarsky
Alex Tatarsky is a clown, performance artist, and self-described compost theorist of comedy.
Tatarsky has presented original full-length solo works at La MaMa in New York, the Exponential Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the UK, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
They hold an MA in Performance Studies from New York University and studied devised performance at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training.
Alex performs their show, Dirt Trip, on April 18, 2026 at the MEM – Centre des Mémoires Montréalaises for the Montreal Clown Festival.
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