with Brittney Harris

FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED

What is your story? Flying Solo is a virtual interactive workshop that focuses on the creation of narrative-based solo performance. Using your own life experiences, Flying Solo provides artists with various exercises, concepts, and explorations in Characterization [Chekhov], Time, Space, Memory, and Senses [Viewpoints], and Solo Performance Pedagogy culminating in preparing their own one-person show. Developing a solo performance is an on-going process and this workshop aides in its progression.

You do not have to be an actor to participate in this workshop. While these forms exist independently, Flying Solo unique structure merges these methods to achieve the following objectives:

• Focus on the individual in finding a subject matter that motivates and sustains them.

• Develop the physical, vocal and character-transformation skills necessary to sustain a dynamic solo performance onstage.

• Explore exercises in character development, improvisation, narratives, oral history.

Brittney S. Harris is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at ODU. Throughout the Southeast regions of VA, NC, DC, and GA, Brittney has created several community engagement-based projects and conducted workshops on solo performance development and devised theatre for the past 5 years. Currently, she is workshopping and touring her two solo performance projects, The Intersection: The Sandra Bland Project and Being B.A.D.; each project explores the adverse effects of violence in social media on the personal psyche and how narrative-based storytelling is used as a vessel for social resilience and redemption.