Workshops
Tuesday, Feb 73-5:00pm (Acting)
Room BC230
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL: Personalization and the Camera
Marilyn McIntyre, Independent
This workshop will be focusing on "The Close-Up" letting the camera come to you. Actors often worry about the transition from acting on-stage to acting on-camera, when, in fact, personalization is the foundation for all of it. Actors strive for authenticity in their work, no matter what the medium, the genre or the world of the fiction may be. The camera can pick up the every thought and fleeting emotion so personalization is where we start and finish.
Participants Prepare: Please have a prepared, short, contemporary piece (under 90 seconds) that is age and type appropriate. Bring an extra copy of the material and a headshot and resume for the instructor. Come dressed appropriately to be on-camera: No white, black or very dark.
Wednesday, Feb 8
10-10:50am (Dramaturgy)
Room BC113
The Margins of Dramaturgical Work: Creative Solutions and Non-traditional Projects
Lisa Hall Hagen, Utah Valley University
This workshop explores the tasks and skills of dramaturgy beyond the traditional offerings. The participants will discuss and brainstorm case studies to learn ways to expand dramaturgical thinking and generate creative and non-traditional research and outreach projects.
10:30am-12:00pm (Acting/Directing/Stage Movement)
Room BC38
Passion in Practice - Acting Shakespeare
bree valle, Cuesta College
Shakespeare offers participants language and imagery that is more robust than is often found in contemporary scripts. Participants will gain solid artistic tools to improve thought articulation and deepen integration of body, mind, and text.
Participants Prepare: This is a movement based class - please wear clothing to drop, roll and crawl in.
11:00am-12:30pm (Playwriting)
Room BC125
The Business of the Business: How Playwrights Market Their Work
Julie Jensen, Salt Lake Acting Company
A nuts-and-bolts approach to the playwright's job of marketing his/her work. The session includes strategies for getting a foot in the door, for getting productions from local theatres, and for keeping on with the number one job: the writing itself.
1-2:20pm (Acting/Stage Movement)
Room BC38
Twice as Fast as Aspirin: The Art of Clown, "Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast." Groucho Marx
Mark Branner, University of Hawaii, Manoa
This workshop will focus on the art of physical comedy, allowing participants to gain insights into acting techniques by exploring physical control and responsiveness, a natural neutral expression, breath control and kinesthetic awareness. All will benefit from this focus on PLAY.
Participants Prepare: Wear comfortable, loose clothes or dance attire. Tight-fitting jeans are especially problematic. Skirts and dresses are not appropriate. Athletic shoes are appropriate or other closed shoes that allow for physical movement. Do not wear
jewelry that might cause injury to yourself or others.
1-3:00pm (Design)
Room BC317
Making Custom Scale Model Furniture
Fred Kinney, CSU Fullerton
Create scale furniture though employing both digital drawing & traditional model making techniques. We will use the Internet, Adobe Photoshop & Computer Drafting programs as well cutting tools, paper & glue.
Participants Prepare: Simple model making tools. 1. X-acto style knife with three or more blades2. 6" metal ruler 3. Cutting mat I will provide the card stock, tape & glue.
2-2:50pm (Playwriting)
Room BC125
Exposition: How Much is Enough?
Char Nelson, Freelance Playwright
Through reading and discussing portions of three texts, we'll make discoveries about how different professional writers handle exposition.
2:30-3:30pm (Talking about Theatre)
Room BC113
Black Theatre Net Working
Kathryn Ervin, CSU San Bernardino
The Black Theatre offers a variety of opportunities for actors. An introduction and an overview of some current authors, producing organizations and genres. Raise your awareness of skills, challenges and resources to presenting Hip Hop, African, Choreopoems and other Black Theatre and related Forms.
3-4:00pm (Acting/Stage Movement)
Room BC125
Monologue Workout with Departure Points
T. Anthony Marotta, Professional Mask Artist, Director & Fight Choreographer
Put your monologue through boot camp! Whether in auditions or performances monologue success comes from confidence. Confidence comes from knowing your monologue inside and out and arriving at informed, creative and appropriate choices. This workshop will deconstruct, reconsider, and attack your monologue with Departure Points, from the Marotta Movement Method. Whatever monologue you have - new, old, fresh, stale, loved, hated, classical, musical, contemporary, verse, poem - this workshop will deepen your connection and widen your approach using language, physicality and characterization Departure Points.
Participants Prepare: Wear clothes appropriate for movement. Bring a monologue to work on, preferably in print. Bring paper and pencil to write down discoveries.
3-4:30pm (Acting)
Room BC230
What is your Voice: Exploring Your Artistic Voice on Stage
Darby Lofstrand, Northern Arizona University
Exploring and expanding our vocal choices is an ongoing delight for actors. This workshop will provide you with a few specific tools you can use to develop vocal expression on stage.
Participants Prepare: Clothing you can MOVE in. Be prepared to work barefoot or with dance slippers.
4:00-5:30pm (Acting/Musical Theatre & Dance/Stage Movement)
Room BC38
Dance for Musical Theatre
William Lett, CSU, Fullerton
This dance for musical theatre master class will consist of a warm, up and a few combinations, while also exploring the technique of retaining choreography in a short amount of time, showmanship, and audition techniques. This fun workshop will be a guaranteed workout for the dancer as well as the non-dancer/mover. All movement levels are encouraged to participate.
Participants Prepare: Dance or work out clothes. Choose garments that are form fitting and appropriate for a dance audition/class.
Thursday, Feb 9
10:30-11:30am (Acting/Talking about Theatre)
Room BC319
Microcosm of Theatre Experience
Jim Greer, Meramec College
Participants share human experiences and create theatrical experiences. The exercise fosters a greater respect for theatre artist.
10:30am-12:30pm (Devising/Stage Movement)
Room BC38
From Breath to Story: A Theatrical Journey using the Margolis Method
Kari Margolis, Adaptors Inc.
This workshop, first in the series of Margolis Method workshops, can be taken in the series or on its own. Learn to create on your feet! Our bodies are our instruments; rhythm, density, and form are tools with which to “play” them -- and it all starts with the breath. Over the course of this workshop we will, starting with a single breath, explore the steps of dramaturgically creating performance by building dramatic packets of ideas, having clarity of intention and merging vocal and physical expression.
Participants Prepare: Be prepared to move: flexible, neutral colored clothing/bare feet.
10:30am-12:30pm (Acting/Directing/Musical Theatre & Dance)
Room BC113
Be Your Own Publicist-Marketing and Social Media for the Professional Actor
Allison Mosier, Professional Actor/Director
Learn how to use marketing strategies and social media to create effective business tools (headshot, resume, website, etc.), get an agent, and be more visible in the industry.
Participants Prepare: Participants should bring current headshot and resume (if they have one).
10:30am-12:30pm (Playwriting)
Room BC125
Collectively Creating a Documentary Theatre Script
Steve Reynolds, Wittenberg University
We will cover the basics: organizing your creative team, finding a topic, interview techniques, editing; and, most importantly, how to successfully structure your final script.
Participants Prepare: Come as you are.
10:30am-12:30pm (Acting/Taking about Theatre)
Room BC136
A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors' Equity and a Practical Guide to the Business
Tom Miller, Actors' Equity Association
Equity supports and protects the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. The workshop offers a candid discussion about how and when to join, pragmatic insight into balancing artistic and business mindsets, and provides tips on negotiating, record keeping, networking, survival jobs and more. The session is Q & A driven and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.
10:30am-12:30pm (Acting)
Room BC230
Form Will Set You Free
Richard Bugg, Southern Utah University
A mixture of games, exercises, and lecture to help the performer discover that his/her best creativity comes through first embracing the form.
12:30pm-1:00pm (Design/Technology)
Room BC319
Stepping up - Taking props and crafts to the next level
Benjamin Hohman, Utah Shakespeare Festival / S.P.A.M.
In this workshop techniques and materials will be shown and demonstrated on how to take props and craft items to the next level of detail. Particular emphasis will be placed on the use of textures and finishes to get improved results for the stage.
1-1:50pm (Design)
Room BC317
Design Portfolio Reviews - Lighting and Sound
Student Lighting and Sound Designers bring your portfolios and share them with our national and regional design respondents. This will provide the student with an opportunity to receive feedback about their work from other professional designers.
1-1:50pm (Theatre Journalism/Talking about Theatre)
Room BC319
200 Shows in a Year: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of Critics
David Mortensen, Russell T. Warne
The Utah Theater Bloggers Association is a group of 30+ active writers that review 200 shows each year across the state of Utah. Join two UTBA founding members as they share key lessons learned during their transition from theatre practitioners to running one of the leading media outlets for theatre in the state.
Writing for the Musical Theatre: The journey of LEND ME A TENOR The Musical
Peter Sham, Southern Utah University
Peter Sham, Bookwriter/Lyricist for LEND ME A TENOR THE MUSICAL discusses bringing a musical work from the inception to the regional level to the West End of London (Gielgud Theatre) and beyond.
1-2:20pm (Acting)
Room BC113
Irene Ryan Auditions: Putting Your Best Foot Forward
Eve Himmelheber, CSU Fullerton
Past Ryans Coordinator shares tips on a successful audition (including material choice, rights, timing, contrast, partners, presentation, and preparation). Bring all your burning questions! Audition tips will be of value to any actor, helping to tackle the universal reality of the dreaded and inevitable audition environment.
Participants Prepare: Any questions regarding the Ryan event/process.
1-2:20pm (Acting)
Room BC125
Table Work for Directors and Actors
Kevin Slay, Chapman University
Table Work for Directors and Actors will be a practical look at how directors and actors can work with a play-script at the table so that the elements of storytelling, action, objective, dramatic conflict and relationship can be realized, wrestled with and rehearsed before a production goes into formal staging rehearsals. The results of strong table work and strong table work skills can be one of your strongest tools as an Actor or Director.
1:30-3:00pm (Acting/Talking about Theatre)
Room BC136
A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors' Equity and a Practical Guide to the Business
Tom Miller, Actors' Equity Association
Equity supports and protects the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. The workshop offers a candid discussion about how and when to join, pragmatic insight into balancing artistic and business mindsets, and provides tips on negotiating, record keeping, networking, survival jobs and more. The session is Q & A driven and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.
2-3pm (Design)
Room BC317 Design Portfolio Reviews - Scenery and Properties
Student Scenery and Properties Designers bring your portfolios and share them with our national and regional design respondents. This will provide the student with an opportunity to receive feedback about their work from other professional designers.
2:30-3:50pm (Acting/Musical Theatre & Dance)
Room BC38
Dance for Musical Theatre
William Lett, CSU, Fullerton
This dance for musical theatre master class will consist of a warm, up and a few combinations, while also exploring the technique of retaining choreography in a short amount of time, showmanship, and audition techniques. This fun workshop will be a guaranteed workout for the dancer as well as the non-dancer/mover. All movement levels are encouraged to participate.
Participants Prepare: Dance or work out clothes. Choose garments that are form fitting and appropriate for a dance audition/class.
2:30-3:50pm (Acting)
Room BC113
Auditioning for the camera: how to knock their socks off
Philip Valle, Cuesta College
Various techniques for being the smartest actor in the room.
2:30-3:50pm (Acting)
Room BC125
The Artist as Citizen
Alejandro Rodriguez, Artists Striving to End Poverty
A discussion on the role of the Artist in the community. Participants will begin defining their roles and responsibilities as citizens, discuss the importance of storytelling, and explore different creative approaches to communicating their story and those of others.
3-3:50pm (Design/Directing/Dramaturgy)
Room BC319
A DRAMATURGICAL APPROACH TO DESIGN: OR LET THE PLAY TELL YOU WHAT TO DO
Joseph P Flauto, University of Evansville
Through use of visual images and specific examples, this presentation will illustrate a process by which designers and the director can use careful examination the text as means to stimulate the imagination and to inspire for design choices.
4-5:00pm (Design)
Room BC317
Walking the Line
Stephen Landon, University of Michigan-Flint
This workshop is an exercise in word analysis through simple line drawings. This exercise is a very useful tool when being the design process. This workshop will include a hands-on analysis of eight words through "rapid response" line drawings. There will be a group critique and discussion on how this exercise can become a touchstone throughout the entire design process.
Participants Prepare: A standard pencil and a sheet of 8 x11 printer paper.
4-5:20pm (Design)
Room BC113
Using Photoshop for Painter's Elevations
Geoffrey Eroe, Phoenix College
This workshop focuses on using Photoshop to create painter's elevations. This is a hands on workshop in which the following will be covered: setting up an elevation; using channels to create maskings; layers to control visibility; texturing and the color selection process.
4-5:20pm (Acting)
Room BC319
Determining Your Type: Who Am I Anyway?
Eve Himmelheber, CSU Fullerton
Even though actors train to be chameleons, our industry hires based on first impressions. Determining your type epitomized by those roles that require you to stretch the least is a highly personal journey, one involving your personality essence and influenced by your physical appearance. In this workshop you will learn to capitalize on what makes you unique by identifying (1) how you are perceived by others, (2) your "professional casting" age-range, and (3) qualities you possess that influence your casting potential.
Participants Prepare: Willingness to be scrutinized by complete strangers.
4-5:30pm (Acting)
Room BC38
Chicago Style Comedy and CSU Summer Arts
John Mayer, CSU Stanislaus/Summer Arts
An introduction to CSU Summer Arts and Chicago Style Comedy. An active workshop in improvisational Comedy.
4-5:30pm (Design/Technology/Talking about Theatre)
Room BC377 Costume Shop
Costume Symposium: Share your stories of challenges, success and creative approaches to costume design and technology projects
Andre Harrington, CSU San Bernardino & Catherine Zublin, Weber State University
This is an opportunity for costume designers and technicians to share stories of their challenges, success and creative revelations for designing in academic theatre. A roundtable conversation will be facilitated by Region 8 DTM chair and vice chair.
5:30-6:30pm (Devising/Talking about Theatre)
Room BC125
Conversations on the Future of Devised Performance at KCACTF Region VIII
Kathryn Moller, Fort Lewis College, Dept. of Theatre
Where and how does Devised Theatre programming fit into the festival? What are the possibilities for developments and future planning of devised programming? This workshop is an open roundtable discussion with the purpose of brainstorming ideas and collecting information from festival participants concerning the future of Devised Theatre at KCACTF Region VIII.
Friday, Feb 10
10-10:50am (Design/Management/Technology/Talking about Theatre)
Room BC113
The USITT 2012 Conference & Stage Expo in Long Beach: What's in It for You?
Brian Reed, Whittier College
This presentation provides information about USITT's 2012 Conference and Stage Expo in Long Beach, March 28-31, the first one to be held in Region VIII since 2007. Find out about the many educational opportunities this conference can offer to design, technology, and stage management students and faculty.
10am-12:00pm (Musical Theatre & Dance)
Room BC125
Musical Theater Audition Technique-Song Interpretation
Allison Mosier, Professional Actor/Director
Develop skills and techniques to properly prepare for musical theater auditions. Workshop will focus on song selection, interpretation and performance.
Participants Prepare: Bring one musical theater piece that you know well and is memorized. No pop or rock please.
CROSS CULTURAL VOICES IN NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT: How who we are supports what we say in introducing ourselves to the world
Susan Merson, CSU Fullerton
In this writing and roundtable workshop, we will discuss the issues of diversity and cross cultural identity by focusing on the work of student Black, Latino and Muslim playwrights who will be participating at the Festival. Come talk about what it is to really write who you are and then spend time in a safe haven environment and explore the issues of HOME and IDENTITY in some written exercises.
10am-12:00pm (Acting/Devising/Stage Movement)
Room BC230
Stories and Space: Infusing Theatrical Space with Emotion
Kari Margolis, Adaptors Inc.
This workshop responds to the question "why come to the theatre when we can stay home and read a play from a book" by exploring essential skills the Actor needs to infuse life, metaphor, energy, and story into the theatrical space. Through practicable exercises and structured improvisation we will create short scenes inspired by the stories being revealed in the space between characters.
Participants Prepare: Be prepared to move in flexible, neutral colored clothing and bare feet.
11am-12:00pm (Stage Management)
Room BC113
Stage Managers: Get your show on The Intertubes
Brad Buffum, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
In one workshop, you and your show can have a web site with schedules, calendars, notes, floor-plans, scripts and production photos posted. We'll add a blog so your cast and crew can subscribe to last-minute updates. Bring a laptop.
Participants Prepare: Laptop
11am-12pm (Acting)
Room BC319
So You're Cast! Congratulations! Now What?
Ellyn Gersh Lerner, California State University Northridge
Come discuss individual approaches to tackling a role (large or small) outside of the rehearsal room. Every director offers a unique style for exploring the script, but as a developing actor, what practices are currently a part of your preparation? How are you honing your technique? When you graduate, what routines and habits will you take with you?
12:30pm-2pm (Playwriting)
Room BC117
Screenwriting for Actors: Turning Waiters into Writers
Thomas Parham, Azusa Pacific University
The success of Bridesmaids, The Office, and Good Will Hunting prove that an actor can be more than a pretty face. Dr. Thomas Parham whose production credits include JAG and Touched by an Angel, will demystify screenplay structure and help actors turn their story ideas into scripts.
1-1:50pm (Playwriting)
Room BC319
Tips to Getting Your Play Read
Margot Melcon, Marin Theatre Company
So you've written a play. Now what? Helpful suggestions and advice for how to be your own advocate and get your script read by literary agents, development organizations and theaters.
1-2:00pm (Dramaturgy)
Room BC125
Emancipating Dramaturgy
Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University
Come and hear how Jacques Ranciere's recent philosophical writings on education and art point us to a conceptualization of dramaturgy that is emancipating for those on both sides of the proscenium arch: theatre practitioners and theatre audiences.
1-2:20pm (Acting)
Room BC230
An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare
Gil Gonzalez, Whittier College
Drawing on the vocal principles of Hart, Rodenberg, and Linklater, the physical techniques of Laban, Meyerhold, Bogart, and text-in-action exercises, this workshop will help actors unlock one of Shakespeare's rhythmic, verse speeches. A highly physical and vocal warm-up will complement the actor's ability to physicalize the potential of Shakespeare s language.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable fitting clothing to move around.
2-2:50pm (Technology)
Room BC319
Tackling Technical Production: Process, Paperwork and Preparation
Kim Schwartz, San Francisco State University
Using specific processes, paperwork & preparedness as a methodology for managing the often overwhelming burden of overseeing the technical aspects of a production. For beginners & self-taught professionals who want fundamentals in organizing information, people & schedules.
2:30-3:30pm (Design/Technology)
Room BC377 Costume Shop
Basic Draping Techniques for Costume Designers and Technicians
Andre Harrington, CSU, San Bernardino
The basic of draping fabric on a dress form, the use of muslin as a mock up pattern and the manipulation of fullness to create seams, darts, gathers and pleats.
2:30-3:50pm (Acting/Directing)
Room BC125
Director's Beat Work for Plays
Kevin Slay, Chapman University
Director's Beat Work is a workshop that will reinforce the Director's ability to work through a play-script in the most specific of ways. Working the beats of a play as a director will clarify and specify Objectives, Dramatic Conflicts, Relationships, Stakes, Rhythm and Tempos, acting tactics and storytelling as a whole. The Strongest directors will be the clearest storytellers. Working the beats of a play will allow the director to make informed and grounded choices for their play.
Participants Prepare: Pencil/Pen, Scratch Paper
2:30-3:50pm (Acting/Stage Movement)
Room BC230
Lecoq Expressive Mask Theatre
Jonathan Pope Evans, Chapman University
Jacques Lecoq formed a school of physical theatre and mime in 1956 in Paris and quietly transformed contemporary theatre. Come learn his unique blend of improvisation, performance, and poetry; and free your creative spirit! 8 participants will be provided with expressive masks for exploration.
3-3:50pm (Directing/Playwriting)
Room BC319
The Director/Playwright Collaboration and Working on New Plays
Richard Herman, University of Central Missouri
This workshop is for directors and playwrights who are interested in exploring the process of working on new plays. The responsibilities of each artist will be explored as well as the working relationship of the playwright, director and actors.
4-4:50pm (Stage Management)
Room BC125
Stage Managers: I Come From a Stage Manager-free School
Brad Buffum, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Where do you start when you go to school where there's no stage management teacher? We'll cover the highlights of a semester-long stage management class.
4-4:50pm (Dramaturgy/Playwriting/Theatre Journalism)
Room BC319
The Principles of Dramaturgy
Margot Melcon, Marin Theatre Company
An introduction of 8 basic dramaturgical questions that will bring you closer to understanding structure, identifying theme, and getting to the root of what a play is truly about.
5-6:00pm (Design)
Room BC113
3D Model Printing for Sets and Props
Geoffrey Eroe, Phoenix College
This is an overview of using 3d Printers for making stage models and small hand props. The workshop will focus on how to prep your model pieces in a 3d CAD program, prepping the 3d printer (hardware and software), running the printer and finishing the final pieces.
5-6:00pm (Management)
Room BC125
Stage Management in a world populated with actors, directors, designers and all of our egos.
Brad Buffum, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
An in-depth exploration of how advanced stage managers become psychic, self-motivated problem solvers, develop an on-demand calm demeanor, play both good and bad cops while acting as an information kiosk and maintaining a rich personal life.
Saturday, Feb 11
10:00am-11:00am (Design)
Room BC317
Design Portfolio Reviews - Costume and Makeup
Andre Harrington, CSU San Bernardino
Student Costume and Makeup Designers bring your portfolios and share them with our national and regional design respondents. This will provide the student with an opportunity to receive feedback about their work from other professional designers.
10am-11:30am (Acting/Devising/Playwriting/Stage Movement)
Room BC38
The Total Theatre Artist: Merging the Skills of Playwright, Director and Actor
Kari Margolis, Adaptors Inc.
This workshop, third in the series of Margolis Method workshops, can be taken in the series or on its own. In the process of creating an original performance each participant will wear all the hats of theatrical creation -- Playwright, Director and Actor. We will explore how developing the ability to see theatre three dimensionally through each of these perspectives strengthens our understanding and ultimately makes more powerful the outcome of our creativity.
Participants Prepare: Be prepared to move in flexible, neutral colored clothing and bare feet.
10:30am-11:20am (Stage Management) (NEW)
Room BC125
Professional Stage Management
Jeff Williams, Pioneer Theatre Company
An open discussion on what it is like to work as a stage manager within a professional theater company. How to train and represent yourself to continue in the field of Stage Managment.
11am-12:30pm (Design)
Room BC113
Character Makeup Design
Karen Anselm, KCACTF DTM National Chair
Learn how to create character makeup designs that will fully communicate your ideas to the rest of the collaborative team, using clear visual documentation, including research, worksheets and renderings. This workshop will also help you to prepare for your Allied Design and Technologies Award Entry. This is a hands on design project workshop, not a stage makeup application workshop.
Participants Prepare: If available, bring artist mediums that can work on tracing paper and drawing paper, i.e. colored pencils, watercolors.
11am-12:30pm (Acting/Devising/ Stage Movement)
Room BC230
Mask as Departure Point: The Marotta Movement Method
T.Anthony Marotta, Professional Mask Artist, Director & Fight Choreographer
Masks aren’t only what you put on your face: they are words, music, emotion, and costume - everything that excites the imagination. We explore how the use of different physical masks (rubber band, Neutral, Larval, Commedia dell’Arte) transforms our bodies, minds, and provokes our imaginations as well as an audience’s perception. This workshop explores the use and expressiveness of the body as we “try on” different masks and learn to develop characters from the outside-in.
Participants Prepare: Please wear clothing, preferably neutral in color and style, that makes you feel good and comfortable moving in.
1-1:50pm (Acting/Directing/Playwriting/Talking about Theatre)
Room BC319
Professional Development Opportunities through the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Nina LeNoir, Chapman University
Learn about the professional development opportunities available through The Association for Theatre in Higher Education for presentations, publishing, directing, playwriting and acting at the conference, and how to get involved in service and leadership in the organization. For faculty and graduate students.
1-2:20pm (Acting)
Room BC230
"But no one talks like that!" A workshop in Shakespeare
Alejandro Rodriguez, Artists Striving to End Poverty
Given a piece from one of Shakespeare's plays, participants will be guided through a "textual excavation", using improvisation, voice and body exercises, and creative experimentation to unlock the ideas in it and activate the language.
Participants Prepare: Come in comfortable, loose clothing you're comfortable being on the floor with. And shoes you can move in.
1-2:30pm (Design/Technology)
Room BC113
The Three R's of Romeo and Juliet: Recyclable, Reusable and Refashioned items for a decayed world.
Andre Harrington, CSU San Bernardino
This examination in parts a coupling of recyclable materials, redefining existing gender specific styles and a re-introduction of basic crafts skills necessary to create jewelry, masks and clothing.
2:30-4:00pm (Acting)
Room BC230
Free the Voice and Posture with the Feldenkrais, Method of Awareness Through Movement
Tommie StCyr, Salt Lake Community College
Experience how these gentle, intriguing movements done on the floor with awareness can improve the use of your entire self and your acting. "If you know what you are doing, you can do what you want." M. Feldenkrais. Taught by Tommie St. Cyr, MFA, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.
Participants Prepare: Wear comfortable, loose, warm clothing. Bring a towel to lie on, if possible.
3-4:30pm (Talking about Theatre)
Room BC125
Creative Pedagogy in Community
Alejandro Rodriguez, Artists Striving to End Poverty
This workshop will focus on best practices and approaches to teaching the arts in a wide spectrum of community settings. Participants will engage in ensemble building techniques, diversity scenarios, activities for setting an environment, and techniques for facilitating their own artistic workshops.
Participants Prepare: Wear something comfortable. Nothing will be too vigorous, but we will be up on our feet for most of the workshop.