 International Festival-Fair
THEATRE METHODS 08
Between Tradition and Contemporaneity
PROGRAMME
Mandy Fox (USA)
Workshop presentation
"Exploring Pause Behavior"
Mandy Fox
Mandy Fox is a playwright, director, actor, voice specialist, and educator. Ms. Fox was in the original Broadway Company of the Tony Award winning, The Last Night of Ballyhoo as well as the soap-opera, The Guilding Light. Mandy is the Voice Specialist and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers' Association, Actor's Equity, and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Presentation Overview
What is the nature of the frame that houses the portrait of character? What is “said” when we judge that those in front of us are not looking and, more importantly, when we apply these behaviors to ourselves, how do they expand our artistic possibilities?
Pause Behavior includes the typical, "uh" and "er" as well as, the delicate idiosyncrasies so often overlooked such as, breath holding, lip smacking and gaze. The exploration is transcultural, physio-vocal and centered on the premise that Beauty is discovered within idiosyncrasy. The workshop would begin with 2 minute interviews (in pairs or trios) focused on a broad question such as, "Who did you pretend to be as a child?", move through explorations of the witnessed behaviors and result in a tone poem performed in the tradition of Greek Chorus.
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