Lyric Learning Performance
Welcome to Lyric Learning workshops, where lyrics from your favorite songs can help release the performer in even the most serious writers. Be it novel, fiction, memoir, prose or poetry, we all sooner than later must share work in public settings.
A key component of understanding ways in which to make your presentation more powerful is utilizing skills acquired by simply saying aloud lyrics to your favorite songs.
Bring a song, or two, you know by heart, along with writing you are working on, and be prepared to speak the lyrics as we explore the unique possibilities of the performer in you.
reg e gaines has facilitated his popular “Is Poetry Theater?” workshops during various residencies including The University of Southern California, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles Windward School, The Nuyorican Poets Café, Voz Alta Project Gallery, The World Stage, Beyond Baroque, Farleigh Dickinson University, Rosa Parks Performing Arts Academy, Passaic County Community College, Montclair Public Library, and Scratch DJ Academy, which he co-founded with Jam Master Jay and Rob Principe.