The Afrosonic Collective invites you to join the family in celebration for their new monthly at
the brand new Salon downtown 57 Eddy st this saturday! Great intimate room custom made for dancing...This MLK weekend special will be featuring DJs Blackdove and Nick de Paris bringing the hottest new tracks in deep rooted afro soul music complimented by the live drumming of Jesus Andujar on congas! For more event details:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178851218804338&ref=ts
1/13/11
Afrosonic's New Monthly @ The Salon this Saturday January 15th!
1/6/11
1/4/11
Winter Classes at Perishable Arts School
INTRODUCTION TO ACTING. 8 weeks. $210
Mondays, 6:30-9:30 PM, January 31-April 4 with MARK PECKHAM
Tuesdays, 7:00-10:00 PM, January 18-March 15 with ELISE MORRISON
Week off TBD
This is a fundamental course for anyone interested in acting on stage or screen. It focuses on basic skills using exercises, improvisation, monologue work, and scene study. Some work outside class is required, but no prior experience is necessary. You’ll finish the class prepared for more in-depth training and your first auditions—and you’ll have a great time along the way.
Elise Morrison is a PhD candidate at Brown University in Theatre and Performance Studies, where she studies and creates surveillance art. With Molly Flynn and Michelle Carrier, Elise devised and performed Cabaret Murderess and Mirror Stage at Brown. She is currently a Resident Artist at Perishable Theatre, where she has appeared in Anna Bella Eema, Sweet Disaster, Asphalt Dreams, and Biography of a Constellation. Previously, Elise worked on various new plays in New York City, and as an acting apprentice at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville.
Mark Peckham’s recent acting work includes Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Virginia Stage Company, Buried Child at Boston’s Nora Theatre Company and the Ghost of Christmas Present in Trinity Rep’s A Christmas Carol. This fall, he directed Kimberly Akimbo at 2nd Story Theatre. Other recent directing credits include Kill A Mockingbird and Orpheus Descending (also at 2nd Story), On the Verge, Full Hook-up, Talking With… Anything Goes and The Unnamed. He has worked extensively as an acting teacher and theatre instructor with Providence College, RISD, 2nd Story Theatre, and All Children’s’ Theatre. Mr. Peckham was co-founder and co-artistic director of Wickenden Gate Theatre in Providence.
SCENE STUDY. 8 weeks. $210
Mondays, 6:30-9:30 PM, January 24-March 28 with ALEXANDER PLATT
Week off TBD
Designed for the intermediate to advanced actor, this class focuses on the moment-to-moment reality of the scene and making specific acting choices that support the text. Please come prepared with a monologue (2 minutes or less) on the first day. While Alex will help guide you toward great scenes, please be ready to find scenes from contemporary scripts. Or bring a list of your “dream scenes”—roles you’d love to play, but aren’t likely to get. For example, if you’re a 50-something guy yearning to portray Juliet, now’s your chance!
Alexander Platt is Artistic Director of Elemental Theatre Collective. With Elemental Theatre he has directed several productions in addition to performing and writing plays. He has appeared on Perishable’s stage as Hedwig in Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Mansur in Bad Money and Ed in Falling Up (13th Women’s Playwriting Festival). Other credits include Judas in The Pathological Passion of the Christ (La MaMa, NYC), Caliban in The Tempest (Trinity Summer Shakespeare), Hank in Fall (Studio 42), and Officer Anthony in The Etymology of Bird (Providence Black Rep). Alex has an MFA in acting from Trinity Rep Conservatory.
FROM BUMPS TO BOAS: BUILDING BURLESQUE. 7 weeks. $185.
Mondays, 7:00-10:00 PM, February 7-April 11 with LADY MISS IRIS.
Week off TBD
You’ve seen this old-fashioned theatrical form of striptease on the stage or screen and you’re secretly dying to try it yourself, aren’t you? Don’t be shy! You don’t have to do it alone. Lady Miss Iris will train you in all the arts of burlesque goddesses of yore, from dance steps to costume crafts. She’ll coach and support you as you develop your stage persona and very first routine. This course is perfect for women of any shape, age, size, or shade who have some dance or acting experience or who have taken It’s Burlesque and want to deepen their knowledge of the craft. Students are expected to provide their own materials and spend 2-3 hours per week working outside class. Women only.
Lady Miss Iris puts the femme back in feminism with her glamorous transformations. As Providence’s first neo-burlesque artist, the Lady has performed in rock clubs, theaters, galleries and ballrooms from AS220 to Worcester. Though currently retired from the variety circuit, the Lady and her mild-mannered alter ego, Amy have been featured in The Providence Journal, RI Monthly, Fox News Boston, and the Boston Herald. Amy was a 2006-09 Resident Artist at Perishable Theatre, where her original full length performance work, The Thing That Ate My Brain…Almost, was produced in May 2009. The Thing, an 80-minute, hilarious fantasty burlesque of personal trauma and science fiction, was subsequently selected for presentation at the 2010 VSA Arts International Festival in Washington, DC.
IMPROV COMEDY FOR PERFORMANCE. 8 weeks. $210
Tuesdays, 7:00-10:00 PM, January 18-March 15 with MELISSA BOWLER
Ready for a challenge? Looking to push your improv skills in a fast paced environment? This is the place. Hone your characterization, game composition, and scene building techniques. Finish the class sharper, faster and funnier than ever. Intermediate Improv, designed for more serious students, works in depth on areas of both short and long form improv. Class culminates in a performance for the public. Enrollment by audition to ensure the class can move rapidly. Anyone with improv experience on stage or in classes or workshops is encouraged to audition.
Actor and playwright Melissa Bowler has been performing Improv since 2002 with such groups as Rejects on the Rise, Inside Jokes, Out of the Gutter, Unexpected Company, Thibowla Virus and Improv Jones. She has performed at various comedy and improv festivals including Miami, Toronto and Austin in addition to teaching and directing improv for children and adults for the past six years. Melissa also performs stand-up and sketch comedy with the Sparkling Beatniks of The Empire Revue.
PLAYWRITING FOR EVERYONE. 8 weeks. $210
Tuesdays, 7:00-10:00 PM, January 18-March 15 with DAVID ELIET
From beginning to advanced, from neophyte to Shakespeare. Indulge your taste for the dramatic, the comic, the tragi-comic or the pastoral. Work on that play you’ve always been meaning to write, or work on the exercises that will be given out in each and every class. Plot out your plots, sharpen your dialogue, and hone your characterization skills. Finish up the class with readings of your work by live actors. But most of all write, write, write.
Playwright and director David Eliet founded of The Perishable Theatre in 1983 and served as the director of The Cleveland Play House Lab Company and the Circle In The Square Acting Ensemble. He was a founder of The Trinity Rep Conservatory (now the Brown/Trinity Consortium) and the All Children’s Theatre Ensemble. He has been an Edward F. Albee Playwriting Fellow, a Rhode Island State Council on The Arts Playwriting Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of an Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship. His two most recent plays were supported by grants from the RI State Council on the Arts. His plays have been published and produced in this country and abroad in both English and in translation.
DANCE SMORGASBORD. 8 weeks. $80
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30PM. January 19-March 16 with NIKKI CARARRA
Gotta dance? Never had a lesson? Don’t know where to start or what form to study first? Nikki Cararra resolves your dilemma with progressive arrangement of alignment, strengthening, and stretching exercises from Ballet, Jazz, and Modern dance. Every class explores basic movements and how to integrate them into dance technique. This fun course includes snippets of dance history that provide some background to the development of various styles and techniques. Each week culminates with a combination, for which the student will be prepared for during class. Music ranges from classical ballet favorites to Tom Waits, the B-52's, and beyond!
Nikki Cararra is a dance artist and educator. Her choreography has been presented in theatres, studios, colleges, art galleries, and fields throughout the region. Ms Cararra shares her love and knowledge of dance with students of all ages, in private and public settings. Since 2007 she has worked with other dance professionals and the RI Department of Education to formulate and distribute K-12 Grade Span Expectations for the study of Dance as an academic subject in RI public schools. She currently teaches technique classes in Modern, Ballet, and Tap, as well as Composition.
:. THE FINE PRINT .:
For Quarterly Classes
• Enrollment in each class is limited.
• Applications are honored in the order they are received. If Perishable Theatre must cancel a class due to lack of enrollment, the student will be offered the choice of enrollment in another class or a full refund.
• Payment is due at or before the first class meeting.
• Registered students who withdraw before the first class meeting will receive a full refund of their tuition (excludes the $10 non-refundable registration fee). Students who withdraw within 72 hours of the first class meeting will be refunded 70% of their tuition. No refunds are available after the 72 hour grace period.
• Perishable Theatre reserves the right to dismiss from the program any individual whose behavior is disruptive to the working of the class.
• There is a $25 fee on ALL returned checks.
Call 401-331-2695 x 102 to register.
AfroSonic JUMP! @ State Lounge - Friday Jan 7th
AfroSonic JUMP!Friday Jan 7th.
This is our first JUMP! party of the new year, come join us for
our monthly celebration of deep and soulful dance musik!
2010 has come and gone and we can't wait to dive headfirst
into '11 ! Concentrating on the power of positive dance music
is our #1 priority for the new year and expect nothing but the
best in DEEP ROOTED MUSIK!!
As always we'll have live congas by the AfroSonic Drummers
Vibe starts at 10PM
$5 / 21+
check out our latest podcast:
DubLN's best of 2010 - treacks that rocked out our floors
over the past year
http://afrosonic.podomatic
Blessings, ASC.
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