PHYSICAL COMEDY WORKSHOP

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January 29, 2-5pm

Location
CasaNia, 46 Porter Rd.
Porter Square, Cambridge, MA
www.casania.com

Cost: $30 ($40 after Jan, 15)
Maximum Participants: 16

To register contact
Naomi Bennett

A class exploring the use of the body in comedy, and the creation of physical characters.

We'll begin with work in group dynamics, rhythm, timing and play, and then move on to specific character work including exercises in observation and exaggeration, movement and vocalization, Lazzi (short comic improvs drawn from Commedia dell'Arte), and character influences such as Animals and the Natural Elements.

THE INSTRUCTOR:
Naomi Bennett has been a physical comedian and movement artist for over two years, and before that worked as a director and producor in the Amherst and Boston areas, including a benifit performance of "The Vagina Monologues" and "Vietnam X" an original piece about second generation perspectives on the Vietnam War.

She has studied Commedia dell'Arte in Italy with VeneziaINscena, Physical Theatre with Andrew Hammerson in Montreal, locally with the Stanislavski Summer School, and earned a degree in Theatre from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has most recently been seen in the Illegitmate Theatre Company's "Some of My Best Friends are Men", loosely inspired by Gore Vidal's "Myra Breckinridge". Miss Bennett is currently working with the all woman clown troupe, "Only Fooling".