INTRO TO CABARET

a song-meets-character intensive with Dito van Reigersberg

Edith Piaf once said, “Use your faults, use your defects, and you too can become a star!”*

Workshop participants will explore the forbidden nooks and crannies of themselves, stuff them into the chrysalis of character, and allow them to burst forth as song. Finding strength in vulnerability, participants will explore the push and pull of singing directly to an audience. Through the lens of character, even a well-known song will sound to us as if we are hearing it for the first time.

Building on decades of experience in the alt-cabaret scenes of New York and Philadelphia, Pig Iron Co-Founder Dito van Reigersberg will lead students through character and voice exercises both intimate and technical. This cabaret workshop will culminate in a low-key live showing.

*Edith Piaf may or may not have said this, but it’s a pretty good line.

 

About Dito van Reigersberg

Dito van Reigersberg is a co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company and has performed in almost all of Pig Iron’s original productions since 1995, including the OBIE winners HELL MEETS HENRY HALFWAY and CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN.  He has also created and performed with Ars Nova, Headlong, Bearded Ladies, Azuka, Mauckingbird, Arden, 1812 Productions, The Civilians, Rude Mechs, and Nichole Canuso Dance Company.  Dito’s alter-ego Martha Graham Cracker is famously ‘the tallest, hairiest drag queen in the world.”  She has performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Franky Bradley’s, L’Etage, The Guthrie, the Wilma Theater, City Hall, Union Transfer, Oberon, Afterglow, and Joe’s Pub.