Kumu Kahua offers Spring classes

Honolulu, HI Have you wanted to flex your improvisation muscles? How about developing a voice that can play to the back of the largest theatres? Or have you ever wondered how actors can walk away from a nose-breaking head butt? Well, Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in improv, voice, and stage combat.

All classes will be held at Kumu Kahua Theatre and will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information, or to reserve a place in a class, call the Kumu Kahua Theatre Business Office at 536-4222. For more information about this and Kumu Kahua productions, visit www.kumukahua.org.

BEGINNING IMPROVISATION: Fundamentals of improvisation, developing creativity, spontaneity, and working as an ensemble. Movement and dialogue-based exercises. Lots of fun that will help free your creativity. No previous experience or preparation necessary.

Instructor: GARRICK PAIKAI teaches acting at Leeward Community College. His play, Who Killed Gilbert Botello? and the long form local improv, Da Pa‘ina, were performed as part of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Dark Night series. Garrick has appeared on OC16’s Mental Tilapia (an improv show) and See Steph Run (a sketch comedy show). He is the founder of the improvisational theatre group, On the Spot, and a member of another, Loose Screws. Schedule: six three-hour sessions, Saturday mornings, 9am to Noon, January 13-Feburary 17, 2007. $100.

VOICE CLASS: This course will include vocal exercises and methods from many teachers, including Kristin Linklater and Edith Skinner. Most of the vocal development work will center around the teachings of Robert Perillo, a well known vocal coach in New York who teaches at the Stella Adler Studio. The weekly classes will include physical warm-ups, breathing, and articulation exercises. We will apply what we learn about voice to Shakespearean monologues. For the first class, students should memorize the prologue from Henry V: “O for a muse of fire....” (Check the Kumu Kahua website for the text.) Schedule: six three-hour sessions, Saturday afternoons, 12:30pm to 3:30pm, January 13-Feburary 17, 2007. $100.

Instructor: BETTY BURDICK holds an M.F.A. in Directing from UH-M?noa and teaches theatre at Leeward Community College and Hawai‘i Pacific University. She has over thirty years of acting experience in Seattle, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, and Honolulu. While acting on the mainland, Betty coached professional actors and held seminars in Character Movement for the Actor. Local acting credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, Deathtrap, Wit,and A Little Night Music for MVT, and Boston Marriage for TAG, and Much Ado About Nothing for the Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival. Her directing credits include King Kal?kaua’s Poker Game at KKT, as well as work at UH-M?noa, MVT, and HTY.

STAGE COMBAT, OR DIRTY LICKINS FOR THE STAGE: Theatre is conflict. When conflict grows too strong for words, characters resort to fisticuffs. This class offers actors the chance to master dramatic unarmed combat and sell the illusion of extreme physical violence while walking away unscathed after curtain call. Learn to punch, slap, push, fall, kick, yank hair, gouge eyes, scratch, bite, and choke the life out of your fellow performers safely and believably on stage. Stage combat skills are a great feather in the cap of any actor, so come and get your lickins! Schedule: six two-hour sessions, Saturday afternoons, 4pm to 6pm, January 13-Feburary 17, 2007. $80.

Instructor: NICOLAS LOGUE is a full instructor with Dueling Arts International, and a life long martial artist, veteran actor. He has directed fights for over twenty productions. A recent recipient of an M.F.A. in Asian Performance at UH at M?noa, Nick has appeared as King Wangwen in the Jingju Women Generals of the Yang Family, as Kent in King Lear with Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival, and performed in numerous Cruel Theatre productions including Andrea/Agave, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, and 4.48 Psychosis.

Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i (with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts); the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Mufi Hannemann, Mayor; The Hawai‘i Community Foundation; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.

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	SIGN UP NOW FOR THREE EXCITING SPRING CLASSES AT KUMU KAHUA THEATRE Honolulu, HI Have you wanted to flex your improvisation muscles? How about developing a voice that can play to the back of the largest theatres? Or have you ever wondered how actors can walk away from a nose-breaking head butt? Well, Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in improv, voice, and stage combat. All classes will be held at Kumu Kahua Theatre and will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information, or to reserve a place in a class, call the Kumu Kahua Theatre Business Office at 536-4222. For more information about this and Kumu Kahua productions, visit www.kumukahua.org. BEGINNING IMPROVISATION: Fundamentals of improvisation, developing creativity, spontaneity, and working as an ensemble. Movement and dialogue-based exercises. Lots of fun that will help free your creativity. No previous experience or preparation necessary. Instructor: GARRICK PAIKAI teaches acting at Leeward Community College. His play, Who Killed Gilbert Botello? and the long form local improv, Da Pa‘ina, were performed as part of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Dark Night series. Garrick has appeared on OC16’s Mental Tilapia (an improv show) and See Steph Run (a sketch comedy show). He is the founder of the improvisational theatre group, On the Spot, and a member of another, Loose Screws. Schedule: six three-hour sessions, Saturday mornings, 9am to Noon, January 13-Feburary 17, 2007. $100. VOICE CLASS: This course will include vocal exercises and methods from many teachers, including Kristin Linklater and Edith Skinner. Most of the vocal development work will center around the teachings of Robert Perillo, a well known vocal coach in New York who teaches at the Stella Adler Studio. The weekly classes will include physical warm-ups, breathing, and articulation exercises. We will apply what we learn about voice to Shakespearean monologues. For the first class, students should memorize the prologue from Henry V: “O for a muse of fire....” (Check the Kumu Kahua website for the text.) Schedule: six three-hour sessions, Saturday afternoons, 12:30pm to 3:30pm, January 13-Feburary 17, 2007. $100. Instructor: BETTY BURDICK holds an M.F.A. in Directing from UH-M?noa and teaches theatre at Leeward Community College and Hawai‘i Pacific University. She has over thirty years of acting experience in Seattle, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, and Honolulu. While acting on the mainland, Betty coached professional actors and held seminars in Character Movement for the Actor. Local acting credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, Deathtrap, Wit,and A Little Night Music for MVT, and Boston Marriage for TAG, and Much Ado About Nothing for the Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival. Her directing credits include King Kal?kaua’s Poker Game at KKT, as well as work at UH-M?noa, MVT, and HTY. STAGE COMBAT, OR DIRTY LICKINS FOR THE STAGE: Theatre is conflict. When conflict grows too strong for words, characters resort to fisticuffs. This class offers actors the chance to master dramatic unarmed combat and sell the illusion of extreme physical violence while walking away unscathed after curtain call. Learn to punch, slap, push, fall, kick, yank hair, gouge eyes, scratch, bite, and choke the life out of your fellow performers safely and believably on stage. Stage combat skills are a great feather in the cap of any actor, so come and get your lickins! Schedule: six two-hour sessions, Saturday afternoons, 4pm to 6pm, January 13-Feburary 17, 2007. $80. Instructor: NICOLAS LOGUE is a full instructor with Dueling Arts International, and a life long martial artist, veteran actor. He has directed fights for over twenty productions. A recent recipient of an M.F.A. in Asian Performance at UH at M?noa, Nick has appeared as King Wangwen in the Jingju Women Generals of the Yang Family, as Kent in King Lear with Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival, and performed in numerous Cruel Theatre productions including Andrea/Agave, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, and 4.48 Psychosis. Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i (with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts); the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Mufi Hannemann, Mayor; The Hawai‘i Community Foundation; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons. Home \| News \| Calendar \| Directory \| Library \| Plays Copyright 2006, Roger W. Tang Questions? Email

SIGN UP NOW FOR THREE EXCITING SPRING CLASSES AT KUMU KAHUA THEATRE