Byrd Productions Physical Theater is thrilled to present a series of 8 workshops this October!

Byrd Productions Physical Theater
is thrilled to present a series of 8 workshops this October!

all of these workshops take place in the Penn valley Room
in the Just Off Broadway Theater
3051 Central KCMO 64108
call 816-305-8188 with any questions

Actor Warriors Workshop with Kari Margolis
Saturday, October 17th - 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Join award-winning theatre artist, director and playwright Kari Margolis
for a dynamic theatrical journey to your creative core!
This exciting daylong workshop is geared towards creating powerful "Actor Warriors"
ready to bring new life to existing or original productions.
Learn to:
* Make theatre from a single breath
* Create on your feet
* Become more empowered
* Articulate what you see in others and feel in yourself
* Connect your body, voice and creativity
* Merges the skill sets of actor, director and playwright

Kari with students

KARI MARGOLIS / A Brief Bio
Kari Margolis is a Playwright, Director, Master Teacher, Performer, Keynote Speaker, and
Published Author. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the international touring MB
ADAPTORS Company, originally established in New York City in 1984. She has conceived
and directed seventeen critically acclaimed, evening-length productions that have toured
nationally and internationally to Barcelona, Berlin, London, Singapore, and throughout
Mexico and Canada. Her repertory of original work also includes large-scale, site-specific
performances for such places as the Brooklyn Museum, the Minnesota Science Museum,
the Roebling Bridge in Minisink Ford NY, and the beach at Coney Island, NY.

Over the last 30 years, Ms. Margolis has developed a dynamic approach to actor
training and theatre creation (Margolis Method) that merges the skill-sets of Actor,
Director and Playwright

MARGOLIS METHOD / A Brief Description
Margolis Method has been developed through daily studio research over the last thirty years by
Kari Margolis and dedicated theatre artists and it has grown into an internationally recognized
methodology for empowering theatre artists to own their craft. Margolis Method takes all the mystery out
of acting by offering tangible, practicable exercises that allow the actor to build and hone their skills like
a true craftsperson.

To learn more about Kari Margolis and the Margolis Method go to:
www.margolismethod.org
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The next 7 workshops are all lead by
Joe Williams and cover many aspects of the Delsarte Method
These take place October 24 & 25 at the Just Off Broadway Theater

Body Language and the Artist
Saturday Oct. 24 at 10:00am - 11:30am
This seminar introduces students to some of the most basic elements of body language, as revealed by Delsarte. This is applicable not only to dance but to all the arts, to business, communications, psychology, or any individual who would like to benefit from more knowledge of the self. We look at the common movement languages of forward and back, side to side, diagonals, curves, and some simple expressions of the angles of head movement.

This workshop is a prerequisite for ALL of the other workshops. If you've taken this in the past then you may take any of the other workshops.

$25 in advance $30 at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402438
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The Three Pillars Artist's Warm-Up
Saturday Oct. 24 at 11:30am - 1:00pm
The goal of the Delsarte warm-up is to create a body that functions with absolute freedom and relaxation, yet with strength through refined balance and alignment. The goal of this strength, freedom, and relaxation is to have a body that responds to the slightest communicative or artistic impulse. As perpetual students of expression, artists can use this warm up to release inhibiting patterns of familiar behavior, create a body that can access a new and ever-widening range of expressive skills. The exercises are simple, subtle, and powerful, and influenced virtually every dancer, actor, singer, and therapeutic modality of the first half of the twentieth century.

Body Language and the Artist is a prerequisite for ALL of the workshops. If you've taken this in the past then you may take any of the other workshops.

$25 in advance $30 at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402449
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Principles of Movement and Gesture for the Actor/Text Worker
Saturday Oct. 24 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
In this class we will use nine principles of movement to explore how the slightest changes in angle, speed, height, and shape of a gesture can completely altar the perceived story behind it. Studying the principles gives the actor power of those choices, and inspires new visions of possibility within the traditions of subtext. Bring a line or two of text or script that might be spoken to a scene partner in class.

Body Language and the Artist is a prerequisite for ALL of the workshops. If you've taken this in the past then you may take any of the other workshops.

$35 in advance $40 at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402455
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Musicality Made Easy Through Movement
Saturday Oct. 24 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Gleaned from six summers of teaching for the Dalcroze Institute at Juilliard, where movement was used to teach musical interpretation to concert musicians, conductors, theater and opera performers, and music teachers from around the globe. The principles are so simple that thy can be easily grasped by the least musically trained, while challenging the most advanced students that walked through the doors of Juilliard. This class includes the physical experiences of: the difference between rhythm and meter, the basic rhythmic patterns of musical structure, reading note values and tempo, and analysis of music brought in by the students.

Body Language and the Artist is a prerequisite for ALL of the other workshops. If you've taken this in the past then you may take any of the other workshops.

$35 in advance $40 at the door
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Three Pillars Practical and Restorative Yoga
Sunday Oct. 25 at 9:00am - 10:30am
Following the fundamental principal of "Strength at the Center, Freedom at the Extremities", and after many years of teaching therapeutic yoga to students ranging from 6 to 91, a series of simple exercises have emerged, which prepare the empowerment and function of the body for the basic actions of life itself. You will find yourself using these movements as you go about your day, and your body will feel greeter ease in every action.

Body Language and the Artist is a prerequisite for ALL of the other workshops. If you've taken this in the past then you may take any of the other workshops.

$25 in advance $30 at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402464
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Delsarte's Expressive Zones of the Body
Sunday Oct. 25 at 10:30am - 12:00pm

This seminar explores Delsarte's identification of Mental, Moral-Emotive, and Vital energies, as expressed in many parts of the body. This is a class filled with "A-Ha!" moments as students recognize the accuracy and applicability of these forgotten truths. Learn how changing the height of a gesture by a few inches, or changing which finger is used to initiate a touch can powerfully alter the meaning of that gesture. Learn how your own movement patterns may be limiting the expressive use of your entire body.

Body Language and the Artist is a prerequisite for ALL of the other workshops. If you've taken this in the past then you may take any of the other workshops.

$25 in advance $30 at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402467
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Workshoping Master Class
Sunday Oct. 25 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm

This is your chance to participate in using the skills we have learned to enrich works or solve challenges in pieces that you or other artists bring in. Technique alone tends to create academic works of art, but when used to support and elevate creativity, technique can take a work to exciting, unexpected heights. Bring your ideas and your imaginations, and let's explore the ground where inspiration and Delsartean skill can work together to create our best work.

Body Language and the Artist is a prerequisite for ALL of the other workshops. If you've taken this in the past then you may take any of the other workshops.

$35 in advance $40 at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402469
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Joe Williams

Who is Joe Williams?
Joe lives in New York City, and has been creating workshops and seminars on Delsarte since 1997. In November of 2011 he taught his Three Pillars approach to Delsarte at the Centre National de la Danse and the Centre International de Danse Jazz in Paris, also singing a recital of Delsarte vocal compositions at the National Art History Institute of Paris. In Germany, he gave a master class at the Trossingen Conservatory, and at the Akademie fur Gesprochenes Wort in Stuttgart. For six years he taught on the movement faculty for the Dalcroze Institute at Juilliard, and has been a guest teacher, and Artist in Residence for Lori Belilove's Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York, teaching modern dance to third graders in Pennsylvania. As guest artist at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (2012), he taught classes for the acting, dance and music programs

For Much more about Joe go to: http://www.delsarteproject.com/?Joe_Williams_Bio

Who/What is Delsarte?
The source material for much of the work of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St Denis, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weideman, Etienne Decroux. This fact is known by most dance history students. But did you know that it was a key element of the actors training for such luminaries as Rosalind Russell, Ruth Gordon, Edward G Robinson, Agnes Moorehead, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor and Spencer Tracy? All of these actors were students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before 1944. The 1944 Class descriptions include a pantomime class that although never mentions Delsarte, was clearly Delsarte based. The school was founded by Steele Mackaye, Delsarte's own protege'.

To learn all about Francois Delsarte and the Delsarte Project go to: http://www.delsarteproject.com/?What_is_Delsarte%3F



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