CLASSES + WORKSHOPS

FrenetiCore presents the 4th Annual Houston Fringe Festival,  August 11-27, 2011. The Houston Fringe Festival is an annual performing arts festival presented by FrenetiCore in Houston's East End. The festival, now in its fourth year, takes place over three weekends and offers the best independent theatre, film, dance, music and visual arts from Houston area artists and beyond.

In conjunction with the festival, Freneticore presents a series of Workshops:

Playwriting
When: August 13 @ 12:00-1:30pm
Where: Frenetic Theater
Cost: $10
This seminar with Edge Theatre's Artistic Director, Jim Tommaney will cover the habit of writing, the variety of genres, the development of a plan and much more.

Improv for the Solo Performer
When: August 13 @ 2:00-4:00pm
Where: Frenetic Theater
Cost: $25
The workshop introduces the performer to this unique and challenging form of improvisation as a form of pure PLAY. Seeking to unleash the performer's imagination, creativity and self-expression Brad McEntire  leads anyone willing to learn through the process of solo improvisation. Taught by Brad McEntire, Audacity Theatre Lab Artistic Direct, this workshop is great for self-initiating artists looking to develop material (particularly for a solo show), improvisers seeking to expand their skill sets or actors wanting to enhance their characterizations.

Impact of Social Media on Art PR
When: August 20 @ 10:00am-noon
Where: Frenetic Theater
Cost: $10
Poet Ken Jones will discuss performance and promotion of creative work, focusing on poetry and the use of modern technology, particularly the Internet. Jones teaches Creative Writing at the Art Institute of Houston, has published three full length poetry collections, hundreds of poems in journals and websites, and has been a featured performer at poetry conferences and venues coast to coast from The Whiskey A Go Go in LA to the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City and myriad places in between.
 
Dreaming Into Devising
When: August 20 @ 12:30-3:30pm
Where: Frenetic Theater
Cost: $15
In the course of the three hour workshop, Amanda Price and Mary Steadman of Famous & Divine will explore a series of approaches to devising, using improvisational exercises, with the aim of pursuing a non-linear representation which allows the audience an encounter with the irrational within the framework of the theatrical.

Freestyle Poling
When: August 20 @ 3:30-5:00pm and August 21 @ 2:00-3:30pm
Where: Frenetic Theater
Cost: $15
Join freestyle poling expert Blake Dalton (pictured) for a high-powered, fun workshop that makes freestyle poling accessible for any body type or experience level. You will learn basic moves with the pole, fun tricks, how to string movements together, the history and mythology of poling and even how to make your own pole!

Tension, Emotion and Comedy in Improvised Theatre
When: August 21 @ 12:00-2:00pm
Where: Frenetic Theater
Cost: $10
Improv comedy is all about the laughs, or is it? This workshop is geared towards any level of improviser, or those with no prior experience in improv comedy, but it will bypass simple precepts to give the group a chance to create scenes "from nothing" that have emotional depth and tension. This workshop, taught by Milo & Shyla, promises to be lively, fun, and offers anyone interested in trying out scenic improv or widening their expressive pallet a chance to walk on a stage and create live, spontaneous, unpremeditated theater.