Classes/Workshops
Class descriptions:
- Abstract / Physical Ensemble Storytelling: This workshop will bring a fresh perspective on the use of collaborative movement to create narrative and abstract improvisational pieces.
- The Solo Artist.: This workshop focuses on the improviser as an autonomous and unrestricted performer. We will explore several formats, personal monologue, storytelling, lone actor /multiple character performance and sound and movement. Students will learn to tap into, trust and follow their impulses to create a body of work.
- Acting for Improvisers: This workshop illuminates improvisation as a performance vehicle rich with authentic emotion, dynamic characters, and meaningful, sincere storytelling. We will explore the use of emotion, personal objectives, self endowment, commitment and vulnerability. We will develop an understanding of scripted scene work as a means to improve the improviser’s ability to achieve clarity and authenticity in spontaneous scene creation.
- Playing
Fast and Free: This workshop focuses on ensemble play and group mind at
high speeds. We will explore identifying threads in storytelling,
creating links between seemingly random scene work, listening, trusting,
reincorporating, and group editing. The
ensemble will grow as a cohesive body for performance, and individuals
will develop the ability to quickly connect and create group mind in new
situations.
