Brain Body Connection Workshop #1 Kenn McLeod
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 30 November 2020 from 2:30 PM (CST) to 4:00 PM (CST)
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Overview
Professional and emerging dancers are welcome to attend the online zoom platform based Brain-Body Connection Professional Development Series hosted by Free Flow Dance Theatre free of charge. If you would like and can afford to make a donation to support the future of the company please do! We are pleased to host this series of workshops with the support of the Community Initiative Fund, City of Saskatoon and Sasktel.
A Touch of Clown
This course focuses on elements of both Italian and Pochinko-Style Clown Training. In this workshop, exercises are used to awaken and encourage a sense of presence, an awareness of the audience, and an honest physical and emotional response to internal impulses and external events. The workshop is geared to expand the participant’s experience of perception and focus. The body (through specific movement exercises) is approached as a source of visualization for character or story elements through improvisations. Through this workshop the rules of Clown emerge giving the student a fundamental understanding of Clown and a deeper experience of the elements at play in any performance situation. This workshop is an intense blast and furnishes the student with multiple characters and a malleable structure for continued creative exploration with limitless applications.
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Details
Kenn is a director, performer, educator and Clown. He received his BFA in Acting at theUniversity of Regina and his MFA in Directing from The University of Nevada, LasVegas. Some acting credits include: As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Titus A. puppet revenge, Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan) The FourthWise Man, Monty Steals Christmas, The Haunted Man (Dancing Sky Theatre), Monday night (Live Five/ Highway 55) Dry Streak (Station Arts Center), Never Swim Alone, What Would Judas Do? (Golden Apple Theatre)
He has taught Clown for the University of Regina, the University of Saskatchewan, University of New Mexico, Dancing Sky Theatre, Saskatchewan Drama Association, Theatre Saskatchewan, The Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Tour, Tricklock Theatre, as well as at the National Hispanic Cultural Centre in New Mexico. He has performed in Saskatoon at The Alt Alt Festival, Live Five Season Launch, Short Cuts, and Last Sunday.
He also created and performed in The Island. Kenn has trained with Number11 Theatre (Toronto), The North American Cultural Laboratory (New York), VancouverCircus School (Vancouver), Dell Arte International School of Physical Theatre(California), Old Trout Puppet Workshop (Alberta), Nomad Theatre (Portland), and TheManitoulin Center for Creation and Performance (Ontario). He is currently a sessional instructor for the University of Saskatchewan Drama Department and Co-Artistic director of Sorry/Grateful Theatre in Saskatoon. He is proud to be a Saskatchewan artist.
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