Make A Scene Online Improv: The Power Of Yes
Mondays 6:30-8 pm EST
January 13 and 20, 2025 $25/class Read more or register

This class will be an opportunity to play improv games and engage with improv exercises that are driven by the power of "yes" and the connection between players that develops through the "yes" mindset. The foundational principle of improv is acceptance of the reality that is presented by another player or that emerges through the co-creative process. Our conventional thinking can get in the way of allowing us to follow the creative impulse, and we will focus on strengthening the improv mindset that gets to more intuitive, collaborative responses to offers from other players, and to the ideas that emerge from within ourselves.

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Make A Scene: From Inspiration To Co-Creation

Wednesdays 6:30-8 pm EST ONLINE
Jan 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2025
$125/series, $25/class Register on this link

This weekly online improv class will focus on the process of collaborating as players in scenes from getting inspiration to co-creating characters and their dynamic relationships to one another. We will spend time with exercises that focus on inspiration - "grabbing:" ideas that come to us through a suggestion or listening to one another talk on a theme, harvesting ideas from suggestions, and opening/expanding our openness to the creative flow - and translating that to co-creation and collaboration.  We will practice:

Deep listening;
Giving and receiving improv "gifts" 
Making scenes that are dynamic, fascinating and fun;
What it means to "make your partner look good"
The "yes" mindset that is essential to co-creating scenes;
Cultivating the capacity to follow the creative impulse and say "yes" to our partners' creative impulse for seamless co-creation.
Having a ton of fun while deepening creative confidence, connection to other players and tapping into your creative self in a joyful way.

• This improv workshop series will focus on both short-form games that build essential skills for long form improv and are entertaining and engaging in performance, and scene work from first to second beats. The skills cultivated by these exercises and games include:
  Strengthening the "current" of connection that is the invisible magic of an improv team

• Tapping spontaneity that drives the flow underlying the group connection

• Finding characters through world-building

• Discovering the relationship between characters and their "deal"

• Exploring possible 2nd beats of scenes and trying them out

• Creating scenes through true collaboration and radical support of one another

• Having maximum fun

This series will culminate in a performance on Sunday February 16 at 4 pm: A Very Valentine Improv Show. There is no requirement that you perform in the show. Just come to do improv even if you do not want to perform. If you do want to perform you must attend at least 3 of the classes. Attending all of them is ideal but a minimum of 3 will work.