Join The Corner Gallery and Four First Names for our 8 week improv curriculum. Whether you are a beginner or a twenty year veteran this class is for you.
Beginners–At the end of the semester you will have an understanding of improv acting, increased confidence in creating and making choices and have the ability to play with authenticity, coherence and fun!
Advanced Short Form–Improvisers will enhance their skills learned in our beginner workshop with more advanced scene work.
Advanced Long Form-At the end of the semester you will be able to play with more advanced comedy technique and theory, consistently improvise scenes that resonate, delight and build no matter who you play with and more quickly develop, create and execute a variety of improv forms.
Everyone–Have a better sense of how teamwork can work for everyone!
There will be several performance opportunities in this program.
Course Begins March 12 and runs every Wednesday until April 30. You can drop in to each class for $25 for no performance track. Class time: 7-9 PM. $200 for the full eight week program.
Laugh Tracks Week #1: Finding Play Improvisers will:
- Realize the importance of saying yes to find play collaboratively
- Recognize that listening can open up new ways to play
- Collaborate and tell a story with confidence
- Demonstrate listening to build details in a story
Improvisers will:
- Display confidence in their own ideas and trusting their scene partners
- Adapt to new information, ideas, and emotions within scenes, even if they seem unusual at the time
- Use empathy to emphasize relationships in scenes. Emphasize that relationships are not just a label but a dynamic
- Listen to both verbal and non-verbal offers given in a scene to build a world, character, or relationship
Laugh Tracks Week #5: Finding Funny in the Everyday. Improvisers will:
- Identify and adapt to tonal shifts in a scene by finding the rhythm of building a base reality with the unusual thing
- Demonstrate the importance of listening in identifying opportunities for play within an everyday situation
- Recognize the importance of authenticity and empathy in building an organic scene
- Demonstrate knowledge of comedic pacing through active listening
- Collaborate in moments of tension of silence
Week #7–Show Preparation
Week #8–Laugh Tracks Live!
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