We're also offering an extended elective each month that takes our most popular weekly electives and expands them into three weeks (nine hours total).
Whether you're an actively performing improviser or a student at the Hideout or elsewhere, this is a great opportunity to do more improv, meet new improvisers and experience different teaching styles.
Wednesday, September 28, 7-9pm
Emphasis on the AND! with Josh Gill
Does it look like your scene partner is working too hard? Do they leave every scene with you sweating and huffing? That's what happens when you have to build a house all by yourself. So get out of your head and give them a hand. Joshua Gill (Coldtowne instructor and Hideout performer) will help you bring your focus back around to the most essential half of the most essential of improv "rules." Yes AND.
Wednesday, October 5, 7-9pm
Telling the Story with Troy Miller
At the heart of all comedy is drama. And drama is the story. Whether you’re playing a single short scene or a longer improvised narrative, Troy Miller (Hideout instructor and director of Start Trekkin’) will explore easy, powerful techniques for creating vibrant stories. If you’re a writer or other creative artist, it will super charge your work by giving you tools for brainstorming, developing a story world, heightening the drama and powering through road blocks.
Wednesday, October 12, 19 and 26, 7-10pm (three weeks for $100)
Physicality in Improv with Asaf Ronen [EXTENDED ELECTIVE]
Learn what blocks you from throwing yourself more into your body and your environment when you improvise. By freeing up the body, students will discover new characters, different approaches to creating a relationship onstage, and tools to add variety to their scene work. Asaf Ronen (education director of the Institution Theater and Hideout director/performer) will help you develop these choices into full scenes and worlds where the dialogue takes a back seat. Using exercises inspired by clowning, commedia and silent film, you will find new narratives that are based in physicality.
Wednesday, October 12, 7-9pm
Be Ugly with Valerie Ward
All too often, we resist making bold strong choices or playing fun characters because it’s “unattractive.” By doing that, you’re missing out on a lot of satisfying work and sacrificing stronger scenes. In this workshop Valerie Ward (Hideout instructor, Parallelogramophonograph) will show you how to play unlovable slobs, hideous beasts, insufferable fools and monsters of all sorts. Learn to embrace the terrible inside you and let it out on stage. As Gilda Radner probably said, “Be ugly onstage. Be pretty at the party afterward.”
Wednesday, October 19, 7-9pm
Improvised Improv with Jon Bolden
Do you find yourself doing the same kinds of scenes and characters, or getting bogged down by structures and formats? How do you try something new without “planning” or confusing your scene partners? In this half workshop/half directed jam Jon Bolden (Hideout instructor, Dukes of Bedside Manor) will invite you to use the stage in creative ways, run unfamiliar scenarios and practice supporting whatever happens. The evening ends with an twenty-minute jam. Come ready to fail with a smile.
Wednesday, October 26, 7-9pm
Intro to Improv Musicianship with Michael Brockman
For musicians, non-musicians and those somewhere in between – a chance to look at improvisation from a different angle. Michael Brockman (Girls Girls Girls, general baddassery) will cover common musical conventions that can make improvising & composing music easier and more fun, and (for the less musically inclined) how to recognize these conventions both in the context of improv and in your own favorite songs. We’ll cover how to play and/or recognize song styles: what makes a country song a country song? Why are so many rock songs in the key of E? We’ll also spend some time on musician/improvisor communication basics. For anyone interested in becoming a musical improvisor, expanding their improvisational toolbox or simply learning a bit more about how music works. Bring your instrument of choice or just your voice.
Wednesday, November 2, 7-9pm
Shut The #$%@ Up! with Dan Grimm
Free yourself from the burden of being witty or clever. Most people are intimidated by improv for fear of not knowing what to say. To ease that fear, learn how to allow the scene to come to you without doing anything other than what comes natural. Dan Grimm (New Movement instructor) will work on changing your focus from the verbal to the non-verbal, allowing your scenes to grow from natural tension and joy rather than premise or invention. Be natural, relaxed and funny… or endearing enough to move your audience.
[ELECTIVE CANCELLED]
Wednesday, November 9, 16 and 30, 7-10pm (three weeks for $110)
Intro to Musical Improv with Kacey Samiee [EXTENDED ELECTIVE]
Sometimes improv needs a little razzle dazzle. Over the course of this three-week workshop, Kacey Samiee (Girls Girls Girls, Hideout performer) will cover the basics of musical improv and then ease you into a few advanced techniques. Learn to seamlessly weave in and out of song, communicate with the musical improviser, work as an ensemble or solo singer, apply song structure, get comfortable with rhyming and moving your body while you sing, learn all the different types of songs to sing and when to sing them, and get comfortable with this amazing (and totally freakin’ scary) form of improv.
Wednesday, November 9, 7-9pm
Stage Combat with Andrew Rodgers
Ever get the feeling that your scene is missing a little "something?" Partner driving you crazy? Well, spice up your interactions with a little combat! Fight Director Andrew Rodgers (Upon a Midnight Dreary, Titus Andronicus) will teach you how to safely and effectively incorporate basic stage combat moves into your improvisational work! Using slaps, punches, hair-pulling and pratfalls, you can bring your scenes to the next level.
Wednesday, November 16, 7-9pm
Being Open, Being Connected with Jessica Arjet
Connection – it’s what let’s you into your scene partners head. It’s what allows you to work in unison. It’s what opens you up to that raw vulnerability that makes the audience fall in love. Without connection your scenes feel like you’re trapped in a glass box and frustrated that no one else is picking up on your cues. In this workshop Jessica Arjet (Hideout owner and director of Flying Theater Machine) will help you find that connection through a series of fun and powerful exercises.
Wednesday, November 30, 7-9pm
You're Swimming In It with John Ratliff
We get into trouble in scenes when we start inventing instead of discovering, and we usually start inventing because we think we don’t have enough to work with. John Ratliff (Coldtowne instructor, Hideout performer) demonstrates that if we’re willing to invest some time and attention at the top of the scene — before the trouble starts — we can become aware of just how much we’ve given ourselves to work with. And it’s always enough. This elective is open to improvisers who are comfortable playing emotionally realistic scenes as characters who are much like themselves.
Wednesday, December 7, 7-9pm
Make the Dangerous Choice with Brett Tribe
As improvisers we know how to be funny, clever, witty and charming. We know how to make people smile and laugh. But what about those times when a scene needs some seriousness, some drama, some uncomfortability? Brett Tribe (ColdTowne and Hideout performer) will show you how to make the dangerous choice, how to find the option of shifting a scene from humor to drama and back again, and how to feel comfortable in those uncomfortable moments on stage.
Wednesday, December 14, 7-9pm
Play The Moment with Michael Jastroch
Are you sitting on the sidelines, stressing about your next move? Trapped in your head, judging choices? Do your improv scenes often feel like work? We all experience “being in our heads” in some form or another. But don’t worry! Michael Jastroch (ColdTowne owner and instructor) will train your brains and bodies to live the moment on stage! This workshop will center on physical, mental and emotional exercises that will make you more active, present and playful in your scenes.
Wednesday, December 21, 7-9pm
Mastering Solo Scenes with Kristin Firth
Improv is such a collaborative art form that when left alone on stage the vast majority of improvisers are tempted to panic. In this workshop, Kristin Firth (Institution instructor, Hideout and Gnap! performer) will focus on successful solo improvisation. Whether you want to be more comfortable starting a scene before your partner shows up on stage with you, ending a scene after they exit (or die!), doing solo scenes in Maestro or putting on your own solo show, this workshop will help.
Wednesday, January 11, 7-9pm
Mastering Maestro with Andy Crouch
Maestro can either be a harrowing attack on your self worth OR the most fun you’ll have all week and an amazing exercise in letting go. In this workshop with Andy Crouch (Hideout education director) you’ll learn to attack every game and scene with mischief and generosity, turning that two into a five. This is Austin’s most popular improv show, and if you let it, Maestro will give you everything you’ll ever need for the rest of your improv life. Space is limited to 16 students.
Wednesday, January 18, 7-9pm
Supporting Maestro with Ceej Allen
The minute you run into the theater for Maestro, you are in the show. In this workshop Ceej Allen (Maestro veteran) invites you to support every moment of every show to the fullest (whether you’re standing on the sides, interacting with the director or scoring yourself on the board). You’ll run exercises and games that emphasize playfulness, side-support and callbacks. Chris’s philosophy: if you prepare yourself to be support for every scene and invest in the show, it reflects in the improv you do in your own scenes.
Wednesday, January 29, 7-9pm
Bringing Yourself to Your Characters with Liz Brammer
When you are comfortable being yourself on stage you can bring your truth to a character instead of trying to hide behind it. Elizabeth Brammer (Coldtown, Gnap! and Hideout performer) will show you how to shed the fears that keep your improv in self-protective mode, breaking through to honest fun. Free yourself from self-criticism in order to be of service to your character, scene partner, scene and show.
Wednesday, February 1, 7-9pm
Intro to Dialects (British & Cockney) with Allison Asher
Ever wonder why you start out a scene sounding Cockney but end up as Scot? Have you found yourself completely tongue-tied in a game of “More British?” Allison Asher (Hideout performer and MFA in Acting) will guide you through the basics of breaking down a dialect, piece by piece and let you practice your new-found skills in a judgement-free zone. Before you know it, you too will be jumping into foreign dialect scenes and introducing exotic characters.
Wednesday, February 8, 7-9pm
Pretty as a Picture with Sarah Marie Curry
As improvisors we have the rare gift of being director, actor and writer, but so often our staging falls short in the balance. We stand three feet apart, create flat lines, block each others bodies, cluster, trap each other in large cast scenes, and stand, sit and play in the same ways! In this workshop Sarah Marie Curry (Hideout performer) will teach the basic elements of staging, balance, position in relation, composition and technique to make you a more dynamic and inspired performer.
Wednesday, February 15, 7-9pm
Be Deliberate and Be the Character with Justin Davis
Stop thinking like yourself and start thinking and acting like the characters you portray. In this workshop Justin Davis (Institution instructor and Hideout performer) will help your characters find their own voices and show you that it’s okay, even great, to let go of worries about characters saying the “wrong thing” in a show. Make your thoughts not your own and don’t be afraid to stick to them. Eventually you stop thinking like your characters and simply start being them.
Wednesday, February 22, 7-9pm
Intro to Musical Improv with Kacey Samiee
Sometimes improv needs a little razzle dazzle. Kacey Samiee (Director of May/June’s mainstage Rock Opera) will lead you through the basics of musical improv in both short form shows and long form narrative. Learn to seamlessly weave in and out of song, communicate with the musical improviser, work as an ensemble or solo singer, apply song structure, and take a first crack at this amazing (and totally freakin’ scary) form of improv. Featuring special guest accompanist Michael Brockman.
Wednesday, February 29, 7-9pm
Keith Says... with Troy Miller
Keith Johnstone is a fascinating guy. He pioneered a lot of fundamental theories that shape modern improv. He wrote two seminal books, dozens of plays, and has taught, lectured and directed theatre around the globe. His wisdom and insights into performance, storytelling and life can be as profound as they are simple. Troy Miller (Hideout instructor and director) has studied with Keith extensively, and this class is a chance to workshop some of his core ideas and talk about some of his most recent thoughts, as unfiltered as possible. Nerd out!
Wednesday, March 7, 7-9pm
Improvising in the Dark: The Bat with Michael Jastroch
One of the perennial highlights of the Hideout Improv Marathon and a ColdTowne Theater student favorite, The Bat is a Harold performed entirely in the dark. This workshop with Michael Jastroch (ColdTowne owner and instructor) will focus on the skills necessary for performing blind: making organic transitions and connections, superlative listening, strong character work, performing in the moment and 100% unconditional “yes, anding.” Students will learn how to first embrace, then harness and control chaos. Plus, we’ll get to do funny voices and make sound effects.
Wednesday, March 14, 7-9pm
Filling The Empty Space with Kristin Firth
Do you struggled with what you should be doing with your hands on stage? Gotten one too many drinks out of the fridge that is always downstage right? Kristin Firth (Hideout performer, Institution instructor) can help you create a meaningful environment on stage that is more than just a means to an end. It can help establish the tone of the scene, your character’s background and emotion, and add depth to your scenes. We’ll work on skills to help you build environments collaboratively and to up your confidence and precision in creating an unlimited number of mimed objects.
Wednesday, March 21, 7-9pm
Character Consistency with Asaf Ronen
It happens to all of us: that character choice drops, that physicality choice morphs into something completely different, that accent changes country a couple of times. Asaf Ronen (Education Director for the Institution Theater) will show you how to better ground your characters so that they will live out the ENTIRE scene. Learn how to make the characters more consistent and the inconsistencies part of the character.
Wednesday, March 28, 7-9pm
Chase the Ball with Roy Janik
Roy Janik (Hideout owner, instructor and director) wants you to think of the focus of a scene as a physical ball of glowing energy. If you’re talking about something that’s happening elsewhere, that’s where the ball is. If you’re discussing a past or future event, the ball has warped through time and is now there. So what do you do in a scene if the ball gets away from you? You either coax it back in, or you chase it.
Wednesday, April 4, 7-9pm
Bettering Your Stage Presence with Jon Bolden
Everything you do on stage should be done with purpose. In this workshop, Jon Bolden (Hideout Theater instructor and director) will show you how better stage presence can captivate an audience and improve your scene work. Are you speaking clearly and with enough volume? Are you fully visible? Do you place your chairs in a purposeful and graceful manner? Do you look like you are in control? Jon offers a variety of Hideout-approved technical tips that will get you looking and feeling more confident on stage. You’ll learn how to create compelling stage pictures. You’ll get personal feedback. You’ll learn some unspoken rules of theater and improv etiquette. You’ll leave with some practical skills that you can apply immediately to your work.
Wednesday, April 11, 7-9pm
Viewpoints for Improv with Ted Meredith
Viewpoints has been used by choreographers, directors and actors alike to enhance the composition of their scenes and provide a vocabulary for creating expression out of movement and gesture. Ted Meredith (Institution instructor) will show you how to turn this artistic study into a greater awareness of how you use the stage and your body. We’ll explore how Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, and Movement can create and even supersede Story. Be sure to wear something you can comfortably move in!
Wednesday, April 18, 7-9pm
Practicing Improv at Home Alone with Ceej Allen
Wanna learn how one of Austin’s most darling improvisers learned the craft of improv when he wasn’t in class learning the craft of improv? In this elective you will learn exercises that you can perform at home to hone your characters, learn your emotional facial zones, practice space work and get comfortable doing monologues and solo scenes. All by techniques discovered by Christopher “CeeJ” Allen (Confidence Men: Improvised Mamet and Franz & Dave) years ago because he just couldn’t stop doing improv and wanted to develop skills more quickly.
Wednesday, April 25, 7-9pm
Let’s Break the Rules! with Jason Vines
You’ve all heard the “rules” of improv before. “Don’t ask questions, YesAnd, No blocking” and so forth. Jason Vines (Hideout performer and director) wants you to find out what happens when you deliberately break these rules. You may find that you’re able to have a perfectly good improv scene. You also may find that these rules exist for very good reason. Either way, we’ll have a blast!
Wednesday, May 2, 7-9pm
The Hardcore S**t with Jeremy Lamb
Some exercises are designed to push the improviser to his/her outermost limits, from whence no candyasses return. If you’re looking for your next frontier and willing to fail in major ways, this is the elective for you. Jeremy Sweetlamb (Hideout director, instructor and OOB Exec. Prod.) will judge you harshly, bare your vulnerable places and push you out the other side of it a stronger, better improviser.
Wednesday, May 9, 7-9pm
Details and Instant Relationship with Kareem Badr
Learn how to enter a scene with calm, patient energy and create rich detailed relationships with your scene partners. Kareem Badr (Hideout owner and member of Parallelogramophonograph) will help you find the joy in details and space work to keep yourself engaged and grounded in the scene setting.
Wednesday, May 16, 7-9pm
Movement from the Inside Out with Jessica Arjet
So much emotion is stored in the body that when you tap into that well of stored knowledge suddenly your characters develop a richness, a fullness and a realness that you just didn’t have access to before. Jessica Arjet (Hideout owner and instructor) shows you how to get in touch with your body and listen. You will also learn exercises that you can do at home by yourself or with your troupe to continue growing your body/performance awareness. It’s not just a movement workshop, but learning to move from the inside out.
Wednesday, May 23, 7-9pm
Step Up Your Game with Troy Miller
Your improv is here. How about taking it up to HERE? Troy A. Miller (Hideout instructor and one half of Elementry, Dear Holmes) will give you a taste of how to play multiple characters, employ on-stage combat, use third person narration, replicate cinema-like story telling, and essentially dance on the edge of oblivion by keeping your improv as risky as possible at all times. Think you can handle it? Well, you can’t — but sign up anyway.
Wednesday, May 30, 7-9pm
Tender Underbelly with Cody Dearing
Audiences want to believe you, but sometimes when you’re trying to do what is “right” or “good” in a scene, you make it hard for them. This workshop with Cody Dearing (Coldtowne instructor) will focus on helping students not try so hard. Learn how to bring more of yourself to your characters and achieve an effortless, engaging honesty. Witness how audiences are naturally drawn in when they feel that improvisers are exposing their tender underbellies and allowing the audience a peak at their true selves.
Wednesday, June 6, 7-9pm
Acting for Improvisers with Dave Buckman
Build the muscles of creating believable characters, realistic object work, honest reactions and being completely in the moment while never losing sight of where the scene is going. This workshop with Dave Buckman (Coldtown instructor and member of The Frank Mills) will turn improv comedians into improvisational actors. Getting more confident with your emotional register is the key to making the audience to feel something[/color]
Wednesday, June 13, 7-9pm
Stage Combat for Improv with Jason Oliver
Are you having issues effectively communicating your emotions and needs to your scene partner? What if those emotions and needs just happen to be devastating uppercuts? Jason Oliver (Hideout performer) will help you learn how to safely and theatrically integrate unarmed and single sword stage combat techniques into your improv scenes. Please wear clothes that you are comfortable moving in, and shoes that are appropriate to athletic movement.
Wednesday, June 20, 7-9pm
The Rhythm of the Scene with Asaf Ronen
HOW we are with each other defines WHO we are to each other, which in turn can define the scene. This workshop with Asaf Ronen (Institution Owner and Instructor) will use clowning and organic improv techniques to abandon all sense of narrative in favor of listening to the heartbeat of the scene, the rhythm of the routine that is being established. The end results will be in many cases odd and/or delightful and populated with huge amounts of subtext and unique character depth.
Wednesday, June 27, 7-9pm
Straight/Absurd Scenework with John Ratliff
The so-called “straight/absurd” dynamic is an essential skill for every improviser, no matter what your playing style. John Ratliff (ColdTowne instructor) will use techniques originated by Miles Stroth and developed by Upright Citizens Brigade to explore how two differing points of view can lead to an infinite variety of scenes, from gritty realism to unhinged anarchy. This workshop is open to improvisers who are comfortable playing grounded, emotionally realistic characters not unlike themselves.
Wednesday, July 11, 7-9pm
Audience Psychology with Jeremy Sweetlamb
Audiences are weird. Each one has its own unique, size, shape, avg. age, desires, pet peeves, political leanings. Jeremy has performed in well over 1000 shows across the US in his 15-year career and has produced around the same amount through Out of Bounds and other festivals. He’ll talk about what gets an audience energized, engaged, and, most importantly, laughing. Why did they come to this show? What are their expectations? WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM ME? It’s time to talk theory for a bit and see if we can climb into the heads of John and Mary Q. Public.
Wednesday, July 18, 7-9pm
Supporting Maestro with Chris "Ceej" Allen
The minute you run into the theater for Maestro, you are in the show. In this workshop Ceej Allen (Maestro veteran) invites you to support every moment of every show to the fullest (whether you’re standing on the sides, interacting with the director or scoring yourself on the board). You’ll run exercises and games that emphasize playfulness, side-support and callbacks. Chris’s philosophy: if you prepare yourself to be support for every scene and invest in the show, it reflects in the improv you do in your own scenes.
Wednesday, July 25, 7-9pm
Scenework Bootcamp with Michael Jastroch
How many scenes have begun with two people standing on stage, cheated out 3/4 of the way, talking to each other waiting for something funny to drop? Sure, there are characters, a relationship, and perhaps we even know where they are. But nothing is happening! In this workshop with Michael Jastroch (ColdTowne owner and instructor) you’ll get all your passive habits drilled out of you and work on making immediate, powerful and active choices from the very start of the scene. The axiom “show don’t tell” applies to comedy as much as it does to drama.
Wednesday, August 1, 7-9pm
Puppy Scenes with Jill Bernard
Learn to improvise with the the energy and unconditional love that puppies have. In this workshop we will attack scenes with puppy-like spirit. Do you wanna do the scene? You wanna? Come on! You can do it!
Wednesday, August 8, 7-9pm
Emotional Roller Coaster with Kristin Firth
Showing emotion is a great way to inspire a new character, or to give others a window into one you've already established. This workshop with Kristin Firth (Institution Instructor, Hideout and Gnap! performer) will explore ways to tap into an improv world that is more emotional and more meaningful. We'll play with sticking to your emotions, heightening them and deciding when to change. We'll expand your personal range to make you a stronger player and help you create characters an audience will be inspired to care about.
Wednesday, August 15, 7-9pm
Play Your Objective with Sean Hill
Do your scenes stall in the middle, leaving you stuck in a wasteland not knowing where to go next? Playing your character's objective can help. Sean Hill (Hideout Founder, writer, performer, and all around good guy) will show you how to keep you scenes in gear by choosing a strong objective for your character, then playing tactics to try and achieve your character's objective. Guaranteed fun.
Wednesday, August 22, 7-9pm
Harolding with Cody Dearing
This workshop hopes to convey the more modern thoughts on the classic improv format, the harold. We will get away from the classic "3 scenes, game" structure often associated with the form and instead explore the current teachings of how to create a show that finds its structure on the fly. We will also examine the importance of immediate support and the value of working together. Experience with the harold is not necessary.
Wednesday, September 5, 7-9pm
The Emotional Body with Jessica Arjet
If you trust your body, listen to it and follow its impulses, it will lead you to powerfully funny and emotional scene work. In this workshop with Jessica Arjet (Hideout owner, director of Flying Theater Machine) you’ll approach bodily expression from the inside out and the outside in. Wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to work those emotions. Get ready to use your entire body to express your inner soul!
Wednesday, September 12, 7-9pm
Finding a Format with Jon Bolden
So you want to start a troupe but you don’t really know what you want to do. Whether you want to just have fun or stand out from the crowd, you’re going to have to make some choices. In this workshop with Jon Bolden (Hideout Instructor, Manhattan Stories director) you’ll talk about your goals, the different ways to approach a format and explore some offbeat ways to discover what is fun for your group. We’ll talk about the role of a coach and what’s next for your troupe. Note: You don’t have to be in a troupe or starting one to attend.
Wednesday, September 19, 7-9pm
Viewpoints for Improv with Michael Joplin
Originally created as a way of making movement improvisation for dance, Viewpoints is a great technique and vocabulary for creating staging for actors. Do you find that your scenes are lacking in organic or spontaneous movement? Michael Joplin (Knuckleball Now, Merlin-Works Instructor) will show you the tools of spatial relationships, reaction, and gesture. Viewpoints training will free your body and your instincts.
Wednesday, September 26, 7-9pm
Breaking Your Game with Valerie Ward
Tired of the same old warmups? Valerie Ward (Pgraph member and Hideout instructor) shows you how to break down the games you know, change them in the moment and be inspired by the structures you know. Take it, turn it, break it, reshape it, undo it, turn it inside out. You'll learn not just variations on what you know, but the tools to transform the way you see games, warmups and exercises.
Wednesday, October 3, 7-9pm
Richer Environments for Fun Scenes with Lauren Buck
Are you playing in the same old generic locations? Getting in your head because you can’t remember where you put the table? In this workshop with Lauren Buck (Merlin-Works instructor) you’ll learn strategies for making the set real to you, which makes it real to the audience and other players. We’ll work on your ability to actually see, smell, touch and interact with your detailed environment. Whether you’re onstage alone or with eight other players, your play will become more fun, more real and less heady as you learn to not just endow the environment, but to allow it to affect and inspire you.
Wednesday, October 10, 7-9pm
“… yes I said yes I will Yes” with John Ratliff
In this elective with John Ratliff (Coldtowne Instructor) we’ll explore the whole spectrum of yes, from sneaky-smart agreeing-by-disagreeing to the underutilized but sublimely powerful Total Immersion God Yes. By the end of this class, something you think you know will turn out to be wrong.
Wednesday, October 17, 7-9pm
Vocal Training with Chelley Pyatt
Are you often out of breath or can’t be heard while on stage? Or do you just want to know how better to use your voice both on stage and off? This workshop with Chelley Pyatt (Institution performer and vocal coach) will teach you the mechanics of proper voice technique for stage work. There will be some singing involved but you don’t have to be able to carry a tune to learn how to properly project. Learn to be heard, and do it without hurting your instrument.
Wednesday, October 24, 7-9pm
Topic TBA with Marc Majcher
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Wednesday, October 31, 7-9pm
Organic Improv with Clifton Highfield
This improv workshop will explore group work and character mimicry. Clifton Highfield will show you how to manipulate stage picture and shared focus while improvising with large groups. Learn how the improviser provides information without inventing it. Learn to use your body to free up new characters and vocal expression. Learn to listen with your eyes, mimic other improvisers, self audit, and play with ideas discovered within the moment.
