A Special Master Class with Odds Bodkin

The Human Instrument

“A one-man vocal universe,” wrote TimeOut New York of Odds Bodkin storytelling performances during his Off-Broadway series at Lincoln Center. Known for his serious and wacky character voices, music and intriguing vocal effects, Odds will share in this master class his tricks of the trade in playing your “human instrument.”  

Join Odds at Whipple Memorial Hall, New London 

on Sunday, October 18, 2009

9 - 3

•Bring a bag lunch and a pillow for comfort!•

•What are the secrets to creating scores of character voices, and how not to confuse them in the heat of performance?  

•How can training the Five Imaginations everyone possesses deepen the imaginative richness available to the storyteller?  

•How does one combine spontaneous creative imagery with memory during a storytelling performance, so that a story remains constantly alive, always changing, always a little better?  

•How does one create vocal illusions––water droplets, surging wind, snapping twigs, running horses?  

•These and other topics, along with lively music on Celtic harp and12-string guitars, fill out this storytelling master class.