a field of crowns

As the Executive Director and a Therapeutic Clown Practitioner with Red Nose Remedy, I’m leading two weekend Clown 1 – Presence & Play intensives this Winter and Spring. These intro level clown weekends are open to all. It’s a perfect place to get back into the studio and experience red nose clown training at a fundamental level. The Winter/Spring Clown Intensive is 2 days of presence work and…

SHOW ALERT Pastel's Imaginarium is back and it's free baby!

After a year away… …and this time it’s making it’s way up to Brampton as part of PAMA (Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives) and their Family Day 2025 celebrations! That’s this coming MONDAY FEB. 17th people! Catch the clowns wandering the halls, jamming in the courthouse, animating the collections and critiquing the art. AND ALSO You can find the clowns in studio 2, where the Imaginarium will…

Andrew is leading a weekend clown intensive in Mississauga from Feb 7-9th! Register for this unique opportunity now.

There are still spots left for this weekend clown intensive happening in Mississauga. While the cold makes the Art Shelter a little difficult to inhabit for long periods of time, I’ve decided to partner with another local Mississauga location, AN1 Studios, just over on Cawthra road near Dundas. We’ll be warm and have a consistent space that will be all ours for the weekend to discover our foolish…

a new blog post in which Andrew announces plans for a weekend clown intensive in February 2025.

All the way back in the fall of 2012, I finally succumbed to the pressure of my friend’s unsolicited encouragement that I should pursue theatrical clown training. It just so happened that her teacher, Helen Donnelly, was offering an affordable entry-level weekly clown one course at a time that I was craving a new approach to performance. I needed to redefine what performance meant to me. Twelve…

A new workshop to explore character from the outside in, inspecting the body and defining its architecture while taking time to relax into our choices to allow the actor to live.

In this 3-hour workshop we will explore movement tools to help you give external and internal shapes to your characters. Since 2018 the tools I’ve gravitated towards to create characters, or to approach performance in general, have become consistent. I keep revisiting my understanding of certain approaches, trying to form them to my own usage, be that for clown, puppetry or the character-driven…

Clown training with Red Nose Remedy this Summer! Every second Monday @ Sweet Action Theatre

It’s the summer of clown! Alongside Red Nose Remedy, I’m hosting a series of 3 one-off clown workshops, each focused on a different set of tools the clown utilizes in performance. They are happening at Sweet Action Theatre and are on the 2nd Mondays of June – July – August. In June we’re working on soft skills of the clown, including pointe-fixe, up and out, repetition, the puppetry of the body…

For absolute beginners, no previous experience necessary! Join us on a 5-week journey in Frog in Hand’s Art Shelter. Led by Andrew Gaboury. NEW CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT Before we put on a nose we start with ourselves. Beginning with presence, we will witness one another, learn and discover what naturally makes us and others funny. Each week will focus on a guiding principle of red nose clown through…

Noir: A Dance-Theatre Performance https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/noir-a-dance-theatre-performance-tickets-643241742367?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

I've been lucky to work on this film noir inspired dance show with 3 distinct casts. We've partnered with a local brewery, Stonehooker Brewery in Mississauga and so we have been working in the back alongside the brewers. It's been a fabulous site to place a dance show - and the beer's great as well. What could be better than walking to the patio and grabbing a beer to go through notes? *satisfied sound, potential chef's kiss motion*

World Building for Choreographers

Your boots scuff across gravel as you begin to see lights coming from a compound behind a metal fence. The gate is open. There is a shipping container with tables full of science equipment emerging from it. In one corner of the compound, you see what you assume was the kitchenette although the dishes are rusty and whatever food was here has long since been removed. By people? Animals? As you…