Storytelling Workshop with Paul Ricciardi
Everyone has a story to tell. Learn how to organize your story, and how to create that deep performer/audience member connection that can only happen through the intimacy of storytelling. Using techniques developed in Ancram’s REAL PEOPLE REAL STORIES series, Ancram Center co-director Paul Ricciardi will guide participants through fun exercises that will lead to a dynamic story.
Saturday, April 20th at 11:00am
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Admission: FREE!
The Workshop Experience
June 8-9
Ancram Center is excited to present three of almost 30 events/workshops that are part of the fourth annual Workshop Experience Weekend happening in and around Hillsdale, Copake & Ancram NY on June 8-9, 2024. Learn from experts in crafting, cooking, nature, gardening, floristry, textile arts, theatre, writing and more. See the complete program of workshops by visiting www.TheWorkshopExperience.org.
Freeing Your Natural Voice
with Paul Ricciardi
Saturday, June 8th at 11:00am
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Admission: $45
Learn how to release vocal tension so you can be heard and felt! In this 2-hour workshop, you will be introduced to gentle exercises that will help you free your natural voice!
The voice is a deeply personal instrument and we use ours all day long: at home, at work, outdoors, for fun and for profit. Whether you are an actor or a lawyer, in business or in ministry, a storyteller or a nervous public speaker, this workshop will introduce you to exercises to help you free your voice from inhibitory tensions that constrict your ability to communicate.
Paul Ricciardi is an educator, director and vocal coach. He is a Professor of Theatre Arts at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. Paul is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher, and is Co-Director of the Ancram Center for the Arts.
Dance for the Non-Dancer
with Aubrey Lynch
Saturday, June 8th at 2:00pm
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Admission: $45
No experience necessary! Come to this workshop and learn to freely express yourself through movement!
Experience the power and healing nature of our birthright, dance. Many of us have been shamed for an inability to keep time or move in traditional social dance settings. Or perhaps we self-edit and deny ourselves the joy of expressive movement. Yet, there are parts of ourselves that have no words. There are stories within us that must be told, and some reflections are so profound they cannot be recited in any spoken language. Join Aubrey Lynch for this special workshop and feel the power of self-expression through our first language, dance.
Aubrey Lynch is Dean of Faculty and Student Affairs at American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. He is a former principal with Alvin Ailey and is an original cast member and associate producer for The Lion King.
Playwriting For Everybody with DARRAH CLOUD
Sunday, June 9th at 11:00am
at Ancram Center for the Arts
Admission: $45
Come to this fun, 2-hour workshop and learn the fundamentals of playwriting. Through creative exercises, you will uncover ideas for plays that you didn't know you had!
Darrah Cloud is an educator, playwright, and poet. Her plays include O Pioneers, Joan the Girl of Arc and What's Bugging Greg. She is on the faculty at Goddard College, and she is the former Pine Plains Supervisor.