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Level One: Fundamentals of Improv Comedy

Spontaneity delivers laughs, relaxation and personal development.

Everyone can do improv comedy and it's advisable. It will offer a development in communicationconfidence and being spontaneous. Alike the training of the well known names such as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell and even British famed such as Eddie Izzard, Paul Merton and Phil Jupitus, the course advocates the use of improvisation for everyone.

Level Two: Efficiency in Scenework 

The Improv & Acting class will develop the actors' skills to create scenes on stage through questioning their performance. This course highlights the actor's need for scenic understanding and the capacity to delve deep into characters. Students focus on their communication with each other to make sure that they can communicate clearly as individuals and as a group. Next the students will practice using what is there to release each other from burden and invention. Students will be working through clarity and honesty.

Let us look into the tools to be efficient in our scenes. We explore behavioural study to gain our insights to make our improv effortless and engaging

Level Three: Game of the Scene

This Improv Comedy class that will advance your skills to create comedic scenes on stage. The course begins by developing students with a deeper understanding of comedy in scenic improv and reaching an effortlessly funny scene. First, students focus on knowing their fun. Next the students will practice using 'Game of the Scene' in one clear method. Students will be working on improvising 'sketch-like' scenes.

 

This course is a raucous and delight of fun, as our improv revels in this. We look at our comedic voice and how this impacts the collaborative fun. Looking at the elements of Game of the Scene that assist us with being focused on what is making the scene worthy of watching, funny and how to extrapolate the scene further and into a long-form production.

Level Four: Training-wheels Harold

In the course, we explore the elements of what makes the form work. We shall seek out the points of development that the production offers and be able to perform a basic 'training wheels' Harold. After recapping performer's focus, game of the scene and the literal structure of the form, we delve into themes and beats; gaining source material and accomplishing 'group games'; closing and re-incorporation.

Level Five: Advanced Harold

In this course, we build on the first Harold course by seeking a full free-flowing Harold that requires a tight ensemble and acute awareness of how the source material is used; the overall production and the way the cast follows the show; using the suggestion fully; embellishing themes to a complete effect.

A day of a specific format as they were either originally designed or bastardised version, for the purpose of their unique skill offerings and development opportunities.

This series of format days shall express the importance of formats. We delve into the schools of thought behind them; their wealth of assets; the variety in the small segment of improvisation that is our improv comedy realm.

 

Such as:

 

  • Detours

  • La Ronde

  • WeirDass

  • Deconstruction

  • Macroscene

  • Openings (i.e. invocation; monologues; pattern game; scene painting)

  • Living Room

  • Armando

  • Slacker

  • One Act

  • Monoscene

  • The Bat

  • and more...

Format Days

All Dates 2021-22

"

Thank you for your 

POWER

and being dynamic."

 

Anonymous, Germany

 

"

I had a great time and feel that I've made a 

 

HUGE STEP FORWARD 
in improv. Thanks."

 

Denitsa, Belgium

"

Awakened  lots of thoughts;

really interesting... "

Anonymous, Finland

 

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