<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><p><strong><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span><b><span style="line-height:21px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#990000">Shakespeare in your Pocket</font></span></span></b></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small">Ages: 8th grade - Adult</span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small"><br>
Instructor: Dana Hart<br>10 Sessions<br>Sundays, starting January 3, 2010; 7:00 – 8:30pm<br>Fee: $175<br></span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">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:</span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> <br>
</span></span></span><span><b><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Art of Orchestration:</span></span></b></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">"Orchestrating" the text through punctuation, operative words, pentameter, and measures. <br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:small">F</span><span><span style="font-size:small">ocal Points:</span></span></b><span><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span><span style="font-size:small">Managing your focal points between yourself and the audience.<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:small">Images:</span></b></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Further on focal points and imagery positioning.</span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> <br>
</span></span></span><span><b><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Spoken Subtext:</span></span></b></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Secret fear, hopes and doubts and how they pay into character decisions and actor physical placement</span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> <br>
</span></span></span><span><b><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Actions:</span></span></b></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Creating physical, opposing, and other kinds of action choices to suit the character and play.</span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> <br>
</span></span></span><span><b><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Complex Orchestration:</span></span></b></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Creating a toolkit for the actor.</span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small"><br>
</span></span></span><span><b><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Towards Performance:</span></span></b></span><span><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span><span><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:small">Previsualization, types of objectives and other questions are explored.</span><span><span style="font-size:small"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small"><br>
<br><br>FAIRMOUNT CENTER for the Arts<br>
Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC)<br></span></span></strong><strong><i><span style="line-height:21px;color:black;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:small">Fred Sternfeld, Artistic Director</span></span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><strong><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small">Theatre & Dance Workshops at the Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><strong><span style="line-height:21px;color:black;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:small">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.)<br>
<br>To register, call the Fairmount Center at 440-338-3171 or visit </span>
</span></strong><a href="http://www.fairmountcenter.org/" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)" target="_blank"><span style="line-height:21px;color:black"><span style="font-size:small">www.fairmountcenter.org</span></span></a><strong><span style="font-size:small"><span style="line-height:21px;color:black;font-weight:normal"></span></span></strong></p>
<h1><span style="font-weight:normal"><span><b><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:small">Dana Hart </span></span></b></span><span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:small">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.</span></span></span></span></h1>
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<p><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:small">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. </span></span><span><span style="font-size:small">Mr. Hart has coached three of the last seven winners of Cleveland Branch ESU Shakespeare Recitation Competition.</span></span><span style="color:black"><br>
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