Theater Classes

at EVERY LITTLE MOVEMENT (Tel. +1-917-945-4064 – www.everylittlemovement.com)
Classes LOCATION: Church of St. John’s (300 Bloomfield Street@ 3rd Street), Hoboken, NJ

THURSDAYS 5:30-6:30PM – Starting September 23rd, 2010
Storytelling, Masks and some tricks from the Commedia dell’Arte

This year the theatre course will focus on very first alphabet of theater: story-telling using masks and theater tricks. The exercises and the improvisations will be based on the ancient way to perform on a square and in front of a wide audience.

Starting from given short stories, the students will create their own new stories. Such stories will include movements and sounds, the use and the making of masks and props, and some ‘tricks’ as used in the legendary Commedia Dell’Arte, the Italian form of theater that influenced the modern and contemporary theatre all over the world.

The final show will display the sum of the work done during the classes. The students will learn how to make very simple masks, how to build a show, and most important how to relate, connect and communicate with people (the other actors, the audience), and use any given space, outdoor or indoor, big or small, triangular or circular.