WORKSHOPS
Workshop Special: Reserve 3 or more workshops and get a FREE Festival Pass.
("Improv; The Musical!" counts as 2 workshops)
Jill Bernard
Workshops
Joe Bill
Workshops
Chris Grace
Workshops
THE FIREBALL THEORY
April 20 - 12pm & 3:15pm
This workshop presents Jill Bernard's Fireball Theory and offers exercises to help you improvise faster and harder than you can judge yourself. You will learn to metaphorically hit the scene running and outrun the explosion of self-loathing and doubt like an action movie hero outruns a fireball thus defying the laws of physics. Please wear closed toe shoes to this workshop.
POWER IMPROV SCENES AND FEEDBACK
April 20 - 12pm & 3:15pm
This workshop presents Joe Bill's keys to playing a great Improv Scene: Powerful Opening Moments, Proactive Listening & Reacting, and Definitively Working The 3 Points of Character Focus to forward into the middle and through to the end of the Scene. Feedback will focus on identifying tendencies and habits that aid or block the keys to successful scenes, as well as opportunities for growth towards becoming a dynamic Improviser.
AGREE, AGREE, AGREE, AND THEN AGREE SOME MORE
April 21 - 1pm
How quickly can you get on the same page with your scene partner? Well you can do it even more quickly. Come to this workshop and Chris Grace will turn you into a yes-and machine. We'll specifically explore agreement and investment in a scene from the moment you step off the back line.
IMPROV; THE MUSICAL!
Part 1 - April 20th at 3:15pm
Part2 - April 21st at 9am
Sure, Les Miz is great, but do you ever feel like you could do better? All you need is a piano and improv and you can create a musical that might also earn you an Oscar, or at least make you cry. In this class you will learn basic song structures for musical improv and create scenes so bold and intense that they just have to be sung out loud. We'll also go over choreography and narrative structure. You don't have to be a great singer to take this class! Just come with enthusiasm and a love for musicals and improv!
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IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY
April 21 - 9am & 1pm
Too often improv feels like a chore, filled with right decisions and good and bad choices. In this session with Jill Bernard, participants will learn the joy and success that follows doing exactly what tickles them. Please wear closed toe shoes to this workshop.
GETTING OUT OF YOUR HEAD AT THE TOP OF YOUR SCENES
April 21 - 9am & 1pm
We’ll run through some exercises to help the improviser start scenes from a place of purity, focus and proactivity. We’ll assault the talky part of the brain, where the self critic lies and get to a place of fearlessness, openness, listening and reacting honestly in the moment. Come get some reps in being completely present with your scene partner(s) and in truthful response, with emotion and point of view.
All workshops are three hours in length and are restricted to a maximum enrollment of 16 participants so you get plenty of focused time with our instructors. Workshops will be held on Saturday, April 20th and Sunday April 21st at Midtown Art Center, 3414 LaBranch, Houston TX 77004.