A Dramatis Personae Workshop with Zell Miller, III on incorporating elements of the Jazz Aesthetic in your writing
THE JAZZ OF IT
$15.00 – $40.00
Description
A Dramatis Personae Workshop with Zell Miller, III
Monday, April 21st 7:30-9 PM
Violet Crown City Church,
1300 Morrow St., Austin 78757
Using elementary elements of Jazz Aesthetic* performance techniques this workshop will explore using gesture, language, and breathwork to make text come to life off the page. Participants should wear comfortable clothes and be prepared for light movement and breathwork, and writing for personal stories.
*“Theatrical jazz is a distinctive way to make work and life; indeed, theatrical jazz acknowledges the necessary seamlessness of the two. While this aesthetic leans heavily on elements of jazz including ensemble and individual virtuosity, improvisation, polyrhythms, “the bridge,” and “the break,” it also references the modern dance idioms, the blues sensibilities, the performance art antecedents, and the ancestral calling that position theatrical jazz as a distinctive performance genre. The texts and productions made from this artistic sensibility are diverse, yet some features reoccur through the range of works. Most often, theatrical jazz is nonlinear and transtemporal.”
Excerpted from THEATRICAL JAZZ by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
