Masterclass: The Public Speakers Toolbox: Physicality and Presence

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Masterclass: The Public Speakers Toolbox: Physicality and Presence

By BabsonARTS

Date and time

Thursday, October 23, 2014 · 7 - 9pm PDT

Location

Lower Lobby; Sorenson Center for the Arts

19 Babson College Dr Wellesley, MA 02482

Description

The Public Speakers Toolbox Master Class Series

Techniques of theater performance offer valuable skills for people who want to be more effective and comfortable in front of an audience. Three accomplished professionals from Boston's theater community work with you to build those skills. Master classes are open to Babson students, faculty and staff only

Physicality and Presence with Yo-el Cassell

Monday, October 20, 7 p.m.

OR

Thursday, October 23, 7 p.m.

Both classes will cover the same material.

Yo-el Cassell: a graduate of the Boston Conservatory (Magna Cum Laude) is a prolific and versatile performer, choreographer and teacher. At the age of 3, Born in Schenectady N.Y, and partially deaf, he discovered expression through movement as a way to communicate. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Thought Leadership fellowship, The Summerstages Fellowship, The Silo Residency Fellowship and the Lotte Kaliski Award for Gifted Artists.

As a performing artist, he has appeared in the debut episode of PBS’s Shining Time Station, the motion picture, What Alice Found, the independent film, Anatomy of a Ballet. He has also performed with and for the Virginia Opera, Heidi Latsky Dance, Chen and Dancers, The American Mime Theater, Spencer/Colton, Pearl Lang Dance Theater, acclaimed director and choreographer Rob Marshall, Sammy Dallas Bayes, Scott Ellis and Darko Tresnak, and Palissimo among others.

His choreography, for dance, theater and film has been seen featured in NY at Joyce Soho, Symphony Space, and featured Off-Broadway in his acclaimed production of Moonlight Interiorwith the vocalist, Jann Klose. Specifically for the Boston area, he has choreographed for the American Repertory Theater (Taylor Mac’s Lilly Revenge), New England Conservatory (Opera, Die Fledermaus)., Walnut Hill School of the Arts,The San Antonio Ballet, The Shadowbox Theater, The Boston Conservatory, The Landmark Orchestra (Kiss Me Kate) the Lyric Theater of Boston (The Understudy), The Boston Opera Collaborative (Alcina,La Traviata, Little Night Music, Orpheus in the Underworld), Nantucket Dreamland Foundation (Sound of Music) and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company for which he currently serves as the Resident Choreographer. For CSC, he has choreographed and staged movement for Comedy of Errors, Othello, All’s Well that End Well, Coriolanus and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. His teaching is sought after around the country, having taught at the Sunshine School for the Deaf in Texas, The NY School for Film and Television, NYU, The 92nd Street and Skidmore College where he served as the resident guest teacher/artist in residence for three years. For the Boston area, he has taught at New England Conservatory, Boston University, Citi Performing Arts Center, Boston Ballet School, and The American Repertory Theater. Mr. Cassell is currently the program manager for Boston Ballet’s Education and Community Iniative’s Citydance program as well as lead teacher and founder for its Boys in Motion Program. Boys in Motion have presented their work at the Strand Theater in Dorchester and for The Boston Dance Alliance Gala. He also teaches movement for actors at CSC”s Apprentice Academy and Contemporary Dance at Harvard University, under the direction of Jill Johnson. Through a fusion of different movement elements, his teaching stresses the importance of exploring our personal capacity for expression and artistry through the medium of movement.

Attendees are encouraged to sign up for two other master classes in The Public Speakers Toolbox Series:

Voice and Speech with Paul D'Agostino: Monday, September 29, 7 p.m.OR Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.

https://bamasterclassvoiceandspeech.eventbrite.com

Presentation Skills with Steve Maler: Tuesday, December 2, 7 p.m. OR Wednesday, December 3, 7 p.m.

http://bamasterclasspresentationskills.eventbrite.com

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BabsonARTS offers a diverse array of programming in theater, dance, music, film, video, literary art, and visual arts for on-campus audiences and the general public at the College’s award-winning Sorenson Center for the Arts and Sorenson Family Visual Arts Center. It also supports the creative and performing experiences of student organizations while offering field-based learning opportunities for students working within business and liberal arts curricula. 

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