Creating and Performing Work for Theater with Canyon Sam

September 13 - November 9, 2006;

Wednesdays, 7 - 9.30 PM

with rehearsal on November 7, and final class performance November 9, 2006
180 Capp Street (@17th street ), San Francisco

Class size: minimum of 7, maximum of 14.
Cost: $195 non-members, $175 members.

Registration deadline: September 8th, 2006.

Register by check or credit card. To register, contact Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or sam@kearnystreet.org for more information. 

Class Description:
A fun, hands-on introduction to creating and performing your own work Ð both ensemble and solo. Through exercises and structured improvisation we will explore ways of generating material from personal/political experience and translating them into movement, sound, narrative, and character. We draw on a wide range of methods and philosophies Ð from the S.F. Mime Troupe’s Commedia del Arte style to body-based improvisation to traditional theater. Intended to be a playful but challenging dip into the performance genre for all levels, no experience needed.

About the instructor:
Canyon Sam, for many years a poet and writer, began doing performance art in 1991. She has directed for the S. F. Mime Troupe’s CSU Summer Arts Program, taught in the Mime Troupe’s Youth Program and at California College of the Arts, studied at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater and at A.C.T. and collaborated with theater artists Brian Freeman and Nina Wise. She has performed her critically-acclaimed one woman shows all over the country and Canada, and received an Individual Artist Commission grant in Literature from the San Franciso Arts Commission in 2005. For more information, please visit http://www.canyonsam.com