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.]

Instructor: Jude Treder-Wolff

• 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

Instructor: Jude Treder-Wolff