February 21st, 2010
Add Some Flirt to Your Fight – Basic Swordplay
Kim H. Carrell
The basics of stage combat with swords are introduced. Learn how to keep yourself and your partner safe as well as basic cuts, thrusts, and parries, simple footwork, and making your swordplay specific to your character. Please be stretched and warmed up before class. “Add some Flirt To Your Fight, part one” is NOT a pre-requisite.
Add Some Fight to Your Flirt – Unarmed
Kim H. Carrell
This class covers the basics of unarmed stage combat including safety factors, communication between partners, and how to incorporate hair pulls (even while wearing a wig), slaps, punches, and kicks into your partnered routines. Please be stretched and warmed up before class.
Creating Comedy Strip Tease Routine
Hypergender
Boston Burlesque Expo winning comedy duo JZ Bich and N of HyperGender will explore the intersection between comedy and burlesque. They will give a brief introduction to various approaches to comedy and comedic styles and will examine which styles are most useful to a burlesque performer. Class discussion and participation will be encouraged. Some of the topics that will be addressed: stereotyping in burlesque, the role of music in creation of comedy routines, physical comedy, irony vs. satire, etc.
Physical Comedy
Hypergender
Boston Burlesque Expo winning comedy duo JZ Bich and N will teach a hands on class on physical comedy. Since so much of comedy depends on language – how can a form that is usually not using language create comedy? From Charlie Chaplin to Sandra Bullock, this class will look at examples of physical comedy. After a brief theoretical introduction to physical comedy, students will be encouraged to create their own short comedic bits and use some of the body language characteristic for physical comedy as well as think of how twisting some of the classic burlesque moves can lead to comedy.
Developing Duets
Hypergender
Boston Burlesque Expo winning comedy duo JZ Bich and N will teach a class on developing duets. How does one work with a partner? What are things one needs to address when working with a partner? Unlike large group choreography that often have a single choreographer or a single person act that are often a product of one person’s ideas, duets are often a product of two minds working in sync. Students will be paired to work on short acts.