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Improv Workshop for Adults at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center

Theater Improv and Solo Performance Workshop
September 1 thru October 20, 2014, Mondays at 9 p.m.

An 8-week workshop for non-professional actors, age 18 and over. This workshop is for people who:

  • Enjoy storytelling and acting
  • Want to try their hand at turning a story from their real-life into a stage-worthy performance
  • Want to meet other non-professional actors
  • Have an interest in improvisation that isn’t just about making people laugh
  • Appreciate how performance playtime can make them more creative in other areas of their lives

Participants will learn techniques used by theater performers to warm-up for rehearsal and performance. Working in a small group (no more than 15 participants) over the course of two months, they will be introduced to a variety of theater games and techniques that performers, corporate execs, teachers and others use to enhance: Creativity, Attention, Listening Skills, Flexibility, Physical Presence, Empathy, Authenticity, Communication Skills and Imagination

While learning theater and improv games and techniques during the first eight weeks of the workshop, each participant will create a unique solo performance piece based on life experience, dream, memory, fantasy, etc. These short, individual stage works will be shared in public during the ninth and final session of the workshop. Participants will invite family, friends, co-workers, etc. to attend.

Some of the objectives of the workshop are:

  • To learn improv theater-based skills that will support creation of a short one-person performance
  • To explore the ways theater/performance skills can enrich and expand day-to-day, off-the-stage life
  • To seed the development of a solo performer community in MS

Powerhouse Community Arts Center
413 S 14th St, Oxford, MS
oxfordarts.com
662-236-6429

Art-er Limits: Oxford Fringe Festival hosted by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council

Art-er Limits Oxford Fringe Festival

Performance Dates: August 1-2, 2014

This summer will see the very first Art-err Limits Fringe Festival taking place in the picturesque and historical city of Oxford. Overseen by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, which was founded in 1975 and organizes a local program of artistic and cultural activities for the benefit of the Oxford community, the Art-er Limits Fringe Festival will see the city open its doors, theaters and alternative spaces across downtown Oxford to welcome performance and visual artists from the local area and the wider Mississippi region, who will present a series of thought-provoking and interactive events that will feature everything from ballet to slam poetry. The two day festival will also include a number of ticketed food tasting events.

Powerhouse Community Arts Center
413 S 14th St, Oxford, MS
oxfordarts.com
662-236-6429

Yoknapatawpha Arts Council Summer Camps

Play Creation Summer Camp
June 2nd – June 26th
Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon

In order to create our play the first week we will focus on theatre games, storytelling, character work, improv, writing exercises, costume work, and set design. The second week we will spend in rehearsal and on development of characters and relationships. This will be much like the play creation process one would experience in a professional theatre company. This camp is suitable for children ages 9 to 15.

Summer Play #1
June 9th – June 26th
Monday thru Thursday, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

In this summer camp, the instructor will choose a play, and the students will audition for roles. Then they will intensely rehearse it as professional theatre company would. This camp is suitable for children and adults ages 14 and older.

Powerhouse Community Arts Center
413 S 14th St, Oxford, MS
oxfordarts.com
662-236-6429