[NEohioPAL] Dana Hart will coach you on your Shakespeare Monologue for ESU Competition or Audition - He coached three of the last seven winners !!!

[Fred Sternfeld]

*Shakespeare in your Pocket
Ages: 8th grade - Adult
Instructor: Dana Hart
10 Sessions
Sundays, starting January 3, 2010; 7:00 – 8:30pm
Fee: $175

Master short Shakespeare pieces for audition, competition – learn to act
these great characters and great moments. You will be working on performing
Shakespeare by learning the text of short character monologues. No longer
than 25-35 lines, these character pieces will teach you all the major tools
you need to take on any Shakespeare text. We will follow the approach of
Scott Kaiser; Master teacher with Oregon Shakespeare, including:
Art of Orchestration: "Orchestrating" the text through punctuation,
operative words, pentameter, and measures.
Focal Points: Managing your focal points between yourself and the audience.
Images: Further on focal points and imagery positioning.
Spoken Subtext: Secret fear, hopes and doubts and how they pay into
character decisions and actor physical placement
Actions:  Creating physical, opposing, and other kinds of action choices to
suit the character and play.
Complex Orchestration:  Creating a toolkit for the actor.
Towards Performance: Previsualization, types of objectives and other
questions are explored.


FAIRMOUNT CENTER for the Arts
Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC)
**Fred Sternfeld, Artistic Director***

*Theatre & Dance Workshops at the Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center*

*This class will be held at Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center off of
I-271 and Wilson Mills Rd.; 6622 Wilson Mills Rd., Mayfield Village (the
corner of Wilson Mills and SOM Center Rd.)

To register, call the Fairmount Center at 440-338-3171 or visit  *
www.fairmountcenter.org**
*Dana Hart *apprenticed to the Cleveland Play House and has been a member of
Actors Equity for over 25 years. He has performed from Alaska to Zimbabwe
and in 48 of the 50 states including seasons with Alaska Repertory Theatre,
Center Stage (Baltimore), Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory
Theatre and Theatre West Virginia. He has appeared Off- Broadway in New York
and with many Northeast Ohio theatres including The Beck Center, Ensemble,
Actors' Summit, Dobama, Clague Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival and
the Cleveland PlayHouse.

Mr. Hart holds degrees in both Theatre Arts and English (teaching) from the
University of Alaska Fairbanks . He is currently the Upper School Drama and
Speech teacher at the Laurel School in Shaker Heights and also a member of
the faculty at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts. While in Alaska Mr.
Hart was the co-founder of Playmaking: a theatre company doing theatre and
storytelling workshops in towns and villages across Alaska . He was both a
teacher and the Artistic Director of the Sitka Summer Fine Arts Camp and a
teacher with both the Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp and the Fairmount
Performing Arts Camp at Laurel School . He has been funded by four states to
conduct Artist in the Schools programs in Maryland , Washington , Alaska ,
and Ohio and was awarded an Ohio Arts Council travel grant to present new
works at the Hararre International Festival of the Arts in 2000. Mr. Hart
has coached three of the last seven winners of Cleveland Branch ESU
Shakespeare Recitation Competition.

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