Improv Genre Selection Box: Meet your teachers

Improv Genre Selection Box: Meet your teachers

[ad_1] This year we are excited to bring you not one but three holiday time intensives! Here we meet the teachers of the improv genre selection box. We find out about their class and what they are hoping to get from Santa!   So, who are the teachers of the improv musical selection box?  …

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Improv Tip #155 Speak Subtext and Listen Viscerally (w/Melanie Chartoff) (2020)

Improv Tip #155 Speak Subtext and Listen Viscerally (w/Melanie Chartoff) (2020)

Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper Melanie Chartoff talks about using the two powerful tools of Speaking Subtext and Listening Viscerally to supercharge your scenes. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your acting classes, or expressing…

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Improv Musical Selection Box: Meet your teachers

Improv Musical Selection Box: Meet your teachers

[ad_1] This year we are excited to bring you not one but three holiday time intensives! Here we meet the teachers of the improv musical selection box. We find out about their class and what they are hoping to get from Santa!   So, who are the teachers of the improv musical selection box? (so…

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Zoom In On Help Desk

New Year, New Curriculum | Improv As Improv Does Best

[ad_1] With its focus on characters interacting, Help Desk games are perhaps the rubric most conducive to Zoom. As such, I found myself hewing much more closely to my typical Help Desk curriculum this class. The biggest hurdle came in navigating Pivots and Split Screens. Appearing on a Zoom screen it’s certainly not easy to…

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Zoom In On To The Ether

Zoom In On To The Ether

[ad_1] The Patterns & Games class where we go over To The Ether games is always my favorite. This time was virtually no different. Understanding the atomic structure of patterns can help a group collaboratively build evolving molecules which combine into complex compounds.  Patterns that facilitate game play can be defined by three “moves.”  A…

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Zoom In On Hey Everybody

New Year, New Curriculum | Improv As Improv Does Best

[ad_1] “Hey, Everybody,” we say as our initiation in some form. Maybe it’s “Team, take a knee,” “Soldiers. Attention!,” or the Zhubin Parang special, “People, people, [important person] is ready for your questions.” The potential for trouble in a “Hey Everybody, get out here” initiation is high. Players may rush out on stage to support…

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