Creating Story Through Beatboxing March 31, 2007

INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS presents

Creating Story Through Beatboxing with Tommy Shepherd

Saturdays • 12–2pm
March 31, April 7, 14 & 21
$160 ($150 for Intersection Members)
Learn how to create worlds through sound. Participants will compose atmospheres, invoke emotion and tell a story with beats, rhythms, melodies and resonance. This workshop will concentrate on a variety of beatboxing styles and sound effects as well as basic acting and movement technique culminating in a performance.

Tommy Shepherd is an actor, playwright, b-boy, rapper, drummer and beatboxer. Tommy is co-founder of the live hip hop band, Felonious: onelovehiphop, which plays throughout the world and also develops and creates theatrical productions. He and Felonious have shared the stage with hip hop legends such as The Roots, Eryka Badu, Black Eyed Peas, Mary J. Blige, Blackalicious, Jurassic Five, and George Clinton, to name a few. He is also part of the all-beatbox collective known as The Vowel Movement, which is dedicated to bringing vocal percussion as an art form to the forefront. He is the co-author and musical director of Beatbox: A Raparetta, developed at San Jose Repertory Theatre's New America Playwrights Festival in '99, and produced in San Francisco, Oakland, the New York Hip Hop Theater Festival, and Hamburg, Germany. He collaborated with Dan Wolf on Stateless, and most recently created the score and performed live in Hamlet: Blood in the Brain. Tommy has been touring with marc Bamuthi Joseph performing music for Scourge and will be creating the score for his next piece The Breaks. For the past 7 years he's put his focus into mentoring youth in the Bay Area, where he helped start PARTY! (Performing Arts Reaching to Youth).

ALL LEVELS ARE WELCOME.

The Intersection Institute provides year-round opportunities for people to engage in an interactive exploration of the complete process of creating new art from conception to fruition. The program includes classes, workshops, forums and performances that combine unique social and aesthetic content with interdisciplinary artistic elements.

Our educational programs are suitable for all ages and are available to educators, students, community groups, artists and non-artists with all levels of skill and experience.

To register for a workshop, please call us at 415-626-2787

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