DePauw to Host Acclaimed Lessac Workshop, June 27-July 24

June 14, 2004

June 14, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - Theatre educators and professionals from across America will visit the DePauw University campus from June 27 through July 24, as DePauw hosts the annual Lessac Voice and Body Summer Intensive Workshop. Lessac training is a comprehensive approach to voice, speech and movement aimed at deepening human communication, behavior and creativity in actors and performers. Used by colleges and universities, theatre companies and research institutions thorough the United States and abroad, the method was developed by State University of New York professor emeritus Arthur Lessac, who will visit DePauw June 25.

“It is a great privilege for DePauw to host the Lessac Summer Intensive,” says assistant professor of communication and theatre Tim Good, whose work brought the workshop to Greencastle. Good, who is himself a Lessac certified candidate, says, “Arthur Lessac is internationally respected ... his work is practiced all over the world.” Lessac's summer intensive workshops have been held at college campuses across the US and in Germany, Puerto Rico, Yugoslavia, Canada and Mexico. Participants at the DePauw workshop will include DePauw professors Susan Anthony and Gigi Jennewein Fenlon.

A Broadway performer and director, a distinguished keynote speaker, and a recipient of numerous honors and awards from colleges and universities and theatre associations nationwide, Arthur Lessac's two books -- The Use and Training of the Human Voice: A Bio Dynamic Approach to Vocal Life and Body Wisdom: The Use and Training of the Human Body -- have become required reading for countless students.

While the month-long intensive will be taught primarily by master teachers, the 94-year-old Lessac will be on campus to lead a two-hour workshop on Friday, June 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. This session, an introduction to the Lessac approach, is free and open to the public, but limited to 20 participants and 30 observers. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Tim Good at (765) 658-4486 or sending the professor an e-mail by clicking here.

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