About the Project
In his currently touring, one-person story-telling show, Dylan Brody brings a comic’s wit and a writer’s mind to bear as he explores his studies as a martial artist. Carrying his experience as a bullied child into his adulthood as an artist, Mr. Brody stumbles into the martial arts as a tool to fight depression and discovers a way of life that allows him to function beyond the fight-or-flight reactions that have ruled his psyche. Ultimately, the funny and poignant stories bring his audience along on a revealing and human journey to a place where peace becomes possible, where confidence obviates conflict, where the sound of one’s own breath is all one needs in order to own any moment.
This show compiles stories that focus on Mr. Brody’s martial arts training, including some that are favorites from his early Stand Up! Records CDs, and others that have never yet been recorded or heard outside of a live venue. At a running length of about an hour and ten minutes, the program is filled with laughter and surprises, unexpected callbacks and a closing piece unlike anything ever seen in the realm of the humorist before as Mr. Brody steps away from the safety of raucous and reassuring laughter and dares to take his entire audience into a place of silence, contemplation and meditative calm.
MORE ARTS / LESS MARTIAL is a must-see for anyone who loves the story-telling form, laughter, the martial arts, peace, humanity or any combination thereof.
Dylan Brody is a TaeKwonDo Master (4th Dan) and an instructor in Hapkido (3rd Dan) and KiGumDo (1st Dan). He has toured widely as a comic and as a teller of humorous stories. His CDs, released by Stand Up! Records are available through Amazon.com and iTunes and his material is heard regularly on NPR’s KPCC, Pacifica Radio’s KPFK and WBAI, Sirius/XM satellite radio, Pandora, Yahoo Streaming Radio and the CBS Interactive Radio Spectrum. He is an award-winning playwright and his latest novel LAUGHS LAST can be purchased at Amazon.com or ordered through your local bookstore.
Learn More at dylanbrody.com
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