Fourteen students and two faculty members took part in a two-day ”Clowning Intensive Workshop” January 25 and 26, at the Brighton Dance Studio. Taught by Susan Thompson of the theater department, who studied at the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris, the program is part of a series of movement workshops created to augment department offerings. Workshop activities included improvisation exercises, nonverbal games of one-upsmanship, and an outlandish fashion show—all designed to sharpen students’ abilities to play the fool in order to establish audience rapport. “It was difficult because we were asked to do things we’re not used to doing,” commented theater faculty member Sheppard Barnett (above, center, in the red vest). “But we got to keep our noses. That was good.”