Renowned poet, Amanda Gorman used her poetry and performance skills to overcome a speech delay in her youth. Think about how you can tap into using gestures and pauses she uses for emphasis in her poem, "The Hill We Climb" a different way. Would you recite it faster or slow it down? Choreograph your own reading of her legendary inaugural poem.
Explore scriptwriting techniques this month with Leithwalk's Mr. Konrad Davis!
The Heartbeat Opera in LA will be livestreaming their song cycle "Breathing Free" to "celebrate Black artistry to convey a dream of justice, equity." Did you know that a lot of theater acting and writing techniques are used in opera? Opera writiers and composers write tell stories with song cycles--a playlist of different compositions that convey mood. The Heartbeat Opera team chose the following songs to view through the lens of our currrent Black Lives Matter movement:
Beetoven's Fidelio, African-American spirituals, songs by black composers, and lyrics by Langston Hughes and Thulani Davis.