Physical Comedy Class (Somerville, MA)

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Physical Comedy & Movement
Sundays, 10am - 12pm
April 2 - May 8
$150
Maximum Students: 16
At Jimmy Tingles Off-Broadway in Davis Square, Somerville

To Register Contact
Naomi Bennett
morninghood at yahoo dot com
617-780-7824
www.morninghood.com

This movement-oriented class is an introduction to physical character and movement for theatre. All levels are welcome, as long as participants are willing to have fun. The object of this class is to explore the basics of comedic movement, character vocalization, and theatrical physicality. Each class incorporates exercises in attention, group dynamics, isolation, play, observation, rhythm, timing, and creative vocalization. The class will work towards character development through observation, mimicking, and use of stock characteristics, and physical traits.

Please wear non-restrictive clothing (no jeans please), and either bare or sock feet.

THE INSTRUCTOR

Naomi Bennett has been a physical comedian and movement artist for over two years, and before that worked as a director and producer in the Amherst and Boston areas, including a benefit 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 was recently cast as a member of The Tribe, and is also currently working with the all woman clown troupe, Only Fooling. You may have seen her counter-part, Nomi Sparks, as a guest performer at Traniwreck at Jacques Cabaret.