10 Days with Keith Johnstone in Canada

[acrouch]

Our efforts to bring Keith Johnstone back to Austin this year were ultimately unsuccessful. He's decided to do less traveling these days.

But if you're hungry to study with the worlds only living improv guru, author of Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, you can go to the source.

He's doing a 10-day workshop in Calgary July Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - Thursday, July 19, 2012. I can't emphasize how powerful it is to see Keith in action. He's a contrary genius that has a knack for inspiring people and getting to the bottom of what is strong and inspiring about improv.

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This year will be the tenth of our Keith Johnstone Summer Schools, and the course is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where we can benefit from reasonably-priced accommodation. We're an hour from Banff National Park in the amazing Rocky Mountains, and just a couple of hours west of dinosaur country (and the famous Royal Tyrrell dinosaur museum), so it's probably worth staying on as a tourist. Ten Days With Keith in Calgary has some overlap with the world-renowned Calgary Stampede, so you will experience Calgary at its wildest!

Course fee
The course fee is CAD $1,675.00 (ex. 5% Goods and Services Tax). The fee exclude accommodation costs. For the Ten Days With Keith summer school, we made a excellent individual room package deal with SAIT Residence: a full 2 weeks arrangement from July 8 - July 22 for the fixed fee of only CAD $695.00 (ex. 5% Goods and Services Tax and 4% Hotel Tax and $5.00 booking fee). We strongly recommend to make use of this package deal, since due to Stampede Week, hotel space in Calgary will be expensive around this time.

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[Brad Hawkins]

He's doing a 10-day workshop in Calgary July Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - Thursday, July 19, 2012. I can't emphasize how powerful it is to see Keith in action. He's a contrary genius that has a knack for inspiring people and getting to the bottom of what is strong and inspiring about improv.

Awesome. Sign me up!

The course fee is CAD $1,675.00 (ex. 5% Goods and Services Tax).

[Ruby W.]

omg brad's reaction post is hilarious

[happywaffle]

Plus $695 for lodging. Plus transportation. Plus food. Plus Molson's. Plus a new toothbrush cause I always forget my goddamn toothbrush.

I wish I loved improv this much and/or had this much coin to spare.

[Spots]

I can find lots of clips of him teaching. Does someone have some youtube clips of him playing? I'm not hitting the relevant search terms.

[Pdyx]

Certainly others are more knowledgeable on this than me, but I don't believe he is or was ever a performer, but instead a teacher, director and writer.

[Spots]

But I'm sure he was a performer at some point though, right? Like way back in the when?

[happywaffle]

[kbadr]

If he was ever a performer it was before he was involved in theater in a professional capacity. He started as a playwright and moved on to directing, where he developed a lot of his improv training exercises to help actors working on scripted pieces. I've always found it insanely fascinating that he has so much insight having never performed improv.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

i think you can get a lot of insight with a wholly "outsider's" point of view. not every director has acted, but they're still the ones i'm taking notes from at the end of rehearsal or in between takes, y'know?

[Spots]

i think you can get a lot of insight with a wholly "outsider's" point of view. not every director has acted, but they're still the ones i'm taking notes from at the end of rehearsal or in between takes, y'know?

I hope so. They give the piece it's sense of cohesion. That's why you would still listen to your director if Sidney Lumet walked in off the street and started side-coaching you.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

i think you can get a lot of insight with a wholly "outsider's" point of view. not every director has acted, but they're still the ones i'm taking notes from at the end of rehearsal or in between takes, y'know?

I hope so. They give the piece it's sense of cohesion. That's why you would still listen to your director if Sidney Lumet walked in off the street and started side-coaching you.

well, if that happened, i'd run the fuck away because the zombie apocalypse was starting...

[Spots]

Back to the subject: more theory can never hurt.

[sara farr]

I don't think Spielberg (producer, writer, director), Lucas (writer, producer, director), or Coppola (director, producer and screenwriter) ever were actors.

And yeah, that's too much money for most, but he is fun to listen to. My notes from when I went to San Fran to hear him talk are around here somewhere. I'll look and post here.

However, a trip to Canada in the middle of a super hot Texas summer is always a Good Thing.

[Spots]

I get why we're running with the fact that he's a director. And why we are making parallels with other directors.

But to be fair. We are more closely talking about the duties of an acting coach. Spielberg, Lucas, & Coppola do not hold seminars about the general craft of acting. They wouldn't. They direct actors toward a finished product, one project at a time.


It's a small distinction and I think it's a fair one to make. I didn't realize KJ didn't have an improv performance background until today.

I also find it fascinating. I guess he has less of an emphasis on performance & more of an emphasis on what makes comedy work?