POWER TRIP
PSYCHEDELIC CLOWN WORKSHOPS
LA & NY
Power Trip is a playful therapeutic workshop, blending physical comedy and healing practices, against the stunning backdrop of Santa Monica's mountain trail, inducing a natural psychedelic state and a lot of mischief.

The workshop is open for all.

WHO IS THIS FOR?
  • IF YOU FEEL STUCK IN YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE

  • IF JOY SEEMS TO HAVE EVAPORATED FROM YOUR ART PRACTICE

  • If YOU CONSTANTLY SWING IN BETWEEN BURNOUTS, LAZINESS AND PROCRASTINATION

  • IF YOU’RE UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS BUT RECOGNIZE THE NEED TO REFRESH YOUR ART PRACTICE

AND HOW DO WE FIX THIS?
  • Via a unique cocktail of therapeutic and theater techniques that causes an effect of “disorganized” brain — or psychedelic state

  • VIA AN EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE OF ONESELF—WHICH IS ONE OF THE FASTEST WAYS TO JUMP START When we feel stuck OR FEARFUL
  • VIA A MASTER MIND SESSION THAT HELPS YOU IDENTIFY WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS TOWARDS AUTHENTICALLY YOUR PATH
”I had an experience of everything aligned inside of me. A very present type of presence. I am at the sate where I find the answers I was looking for.” — Frederikke Vedelsby, Visual Artist
SIGN UP VIA EMAIL
Course fee $350

Power Trip was born out a marriage of psychedelic body work and clown play in order to seriously yank ourselves out of the ordinary into a hilarious extraordinary

KIRA NOVA

  • 30 000 practical hours of work consulting artists individually and leading group workshops
  • 12 years of teaching at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden
  • 5 full length solo shows, presented at MoMA, MET, The Kitchen, Center Pompou, Hauser&Wirth, Art Basel among others
  • 30 + years of stage experience that started by working as a child clown in a circus
  • 3 Academic degrees
  • Curator of the 13th Baltic Triennial
  • Director and producer of Comedy Show “Alligators!” Along with Reggie Watts and Michael Portnoy

More about KIRA NOVA
Kira Nova is an artist, comedian and producer whose credits include the MoMa and the MET. Over the past 10 years she has created 5 solo shows and curated a number of variety theater productions. Among which was a show she created with Michael Portnoy and Reggie Watts — “Alligators! Experimental Comedy Lab”, presented in The Netherlands and Belgium.
Nova has presented her breed of one-woman shows at such venues as MoMa PS1, MET Breuer, The Kitchen in New York; Center Pompidou in Paris, Royal Academy Theater in London, Art Basel in Basel among many. While as a comedian Nova performed in many venues around NY, which include productions at The Box and House of Yes.
For the past 10 years, Nova has been leading workshops and teaching at many North American and European Art Academies, that include: Columbia University in New York (US), Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta (Canada), Paul Klee Center in Basel (Switzerland), Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), de Appel Curatorial Program in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel (Germany), Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Since 2013 Nova has been teaching at Lunds University (Sweden).
@kira.nova_ @kira_nova_studio
What our artists say about us
Nina B.
I feel more alive and embodied than before. My senses are heightened like after a psychedelic trip, and I feel like my cells are reorganizing in a new way. The group energy was charged with this electricity that I’m having sensory memories of periodically. It’s hot and playful and pulsing with life force.
Nina B.
I feel more alive and embodied than before. My senses are heightened like after a psychedelic trip, and I feel like my cells are reorganizing in a new way. The group energy was charged with this electricity that I’m having sensory memories of periodically. It’s hot and playful and pulsing with life force.
Emmy
I feel I've been powerfully (lovingly) yanked out of my brain and into my body - a sort of evening of the playing field of who's speaking inside me - and the body has truly come to the table to speak up.
Nina
“[the workshop] was like years of therapy mixed with play and pleasure and the natural world, a whole inner journey and excavation all in 6 hours, though time is not linear in my opinion. Your workshop is really quite remarkable.”
Renata
When I read about Kira’s workshop, I thought it was a little out there. I mean it has “acid” and “eat your panties” in the NAME of the class but - once I took it, it became clear there is a method to the madness. Yes, there is a lot of movement(and weird movements like high-fiving with your feet). No, it’s not woo-woo at all(science!).

The intensive has definitely helped me. Simple exercises like, “lead with your butt”, or “keep your tongue out” made me super uncomfortable at first. But as I pushed through the feeling(and watched others do the same), I realized there is nothing to be ashamed of, some twisted way I was thinking about the way I move was lifted - It was such a freeing experience! Kira's approach WORKS!

Another thing I loved about the intensive is… it’s like living a different life for a day: you travel to Venice Beach(get there 2 hours early and just chill by the ocean), you spend an entire day in an unfamiliar setting, with unfamiliar people, in unfamiliar situations, you move your body in ways you haven’t moved in years. And once the intensive(and the day) is over - you see yourself and the world a little differently. More open, more fun, with more friendly faces.

After the class(which was deceptively simple) my body was sore - I moved in ways I haven’t moved since I was a baby. The past week my body has been so pumped: it just wants to move, to stretch, to dance - which I do. And which makes me happy.

Highly recommend the workshop! Thanks, Kira!
Course fee $250
SIGN UP VIA EMAIL

IF YOU ARE NOT ON YOUR POWER TRIP, SOMEBODY ELSE’S POWER TRIP IS ON YOU

Made on
Tilda