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GarthGardner-"Mr.G"-asTheVertically
challenged crowd calls him -has taught School (Drama & Music) for ages 4-92!!! He takes time off (for good behavior) to work on Films like TOOTSIE w/Dustin Hoffman & Plays in New York where he taught @ NYU & the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
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He has performed at the Actor's Studio & on National Tours of
Broadway Musicals. He
is also a graduate of the
Hampstead Theater School in London & holds a BFA (Theater)
from Roger Williams University
in Bristol. He was also
Class Clown at Ringling Bros Clown College!
* When his performance schedule allows ...his workshops are:
1). Music & Theater;
including Movement, Rhythm
instruments, horns, guitar, mandolin & various 3rd world drums & sounds! We will utilize
masks, songs & stories. We will learn to fall down safely & what makes drama & comedy work. Puppets are an option.
We will do a variety show case at the conclusion.
2). Make a Circus! This workshop is built on
skills
utilized by everyone in the circus - but
mostly the clowns... they can do it all! Music,
slap-stick, comedy,
magic, juggling, balancing,
stilt-walking, the art of folding balloons,
Make-up & costumes. We will perform
our
skills for a big finish!
3).Creativity: available for Adults,
as well! This is about igniting a child-like passion for reaching what you may have thought was unobtainable!
We will break all the rules, swallow fire & shatter trees with our bare hands! Wild stuff. Make miracles happen!
4.) Our Italian Comedia del'Arte Troupe runs an
intensive comedy & mask workshop where you will be immersed in the culture and times of the greatest comic tradition known
to man! Birthplace of the clowns! Known as Zanni (today the word has become Zany)! An enjoyable "all ages" workshop; you
will be able to join the improv troupe on stage!
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