Shakespeare Hip-Hop Class
Sun, Aug 20
|Atlanta Hollywood Acting Studios
Learn how Shakespeare connects with Hip-Hop! The Goal of the Workshop is to provide a foundation to compare the timeless art of rhythmic language and its universal nature.
Time & Location
Aug 20, 2023, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Atlanta Hollywood Acting Studios, 2230 Towne Lake Pkwy Building 800 Suite 140, Woodstock, GA 30189, USA
About the Event
Our newest teacher Sheri Winklemann, has a passion for Shakespeare.
We have learned that Shakespeare has the same rhythmic petameter as Hip-Hop. Because of this we created a class specifically catered to this. Shakespeare is a huge part of acting, so learn how to do it correctly!
This will be a fun and exciting interactive 3 hour workshop in which participants begin with an intro into the work of Shakespeare, the world of Elizabethan England, and the plays that he wrote then. Examples of the timeless themes that he used that still live today - and examples of famous modern films and plays that took their plot lines from Shakespeare will be discussed. An intro into the colorful, dynamic, heightened musical language Shakespeare used will be given, and participants will have a chance to play with some bawdy insults that Shakespeare famously created, and make up some of their own…