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- Impro Autumn Tasters – (for beginners), Sunday April 6 or Sunday May 4, 2025, 2:00pm – 4:00pm – with Nick Byrne and Nick Fraser.
- International Guest Workshop – The Improv Doctor’s Games Library – (for everyone), Saturday May 17 AND/OR Sunday May 18, 11:00am – 4:00pm – with special guest David Charles (USA/NZ) – games, games, games and different ones each day (choose either day or both). PLUS show Sunday evening.
IMPRO AUTUMN TASTERS
Choose from Sunday April 6 or Sunday May 4, 2025, 2:00pm-4:00pm, @ Blank Creative, 15 Moore Street, Canberra City
(*Read below for our single-session Taster description, but if you already know you’d like to try impro, why not enrol directly into our eight night beginners course, here; https://impro.com.au/beginners-courses/
Our Impro Tasters are a two-hour one-off introduction to improvisation session. If you’d just like a quick splash of spontaneity in your life, or you’d like to fast-taste impro, before joining our regular weekly course, Prepare To Be Unprepared (enrolling every quarter), why not try one of our popular Impro Tasters.
Your session is designed by internationally touring improvisation teacher, Nick Byrne, so you’ll have a fun-filled session of practical exercises and games that introduce you to the fundamental principles of improvised theatre, that you can use on stage or in everyday life, for confidence, communications and social skills.
Impro ACT provides a warm learning environment, and is an internationally respected performing artist, working in more than 35 countries.
If you like it, you might want to enrol in one of our short courses, one-night-per-week, to qualify to participate in shows, or simply to have a bright, positive moment in every week.
Impro Tasters are held sometimes at Blank Creative and sometimes at Ainslie Arts Centre; both an easy walk from Canberra city centre.
• What to bring
Just yourself, but wear comfortable clothes that you can move in 🙂
* If you already know you’d like to try improvisation in one of our short courses, running one-night-per-week, instead, enrol directly, here; https://impro.com.au/beginners-courses/
* If you’d like to join the Taster described on this page, enrol here or email admin@impro.com.au with any further questions;
The Improv Doctor’s Games Library – with international special guest David Charles (USA/NZ) – different games each day plus show
Saturday May 17 AND/OR Sunday May 18, 11:00am – 4:00pm @ Blank& (show is @ Smith’s Alternative, Sunday evening)
David Charles, PhD, works as a professional improvisational practitioner, deviser, author, and improv scholar. A New Zealander by birth, David has called central Florida home since 2003, where he has served as a Professor of Theatre and Dance at Rollins College (University). He is a proud ensemble member, instructor, and director at the region’s preeminent improv venue, Sak Comedy Lab. His Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools hits the shelves last year and is available to order though Amazon and Routledge.com. He has previously taught at Canberra International Improv Festival and also visited us, last year to do a little Shakespeare and a little music. Known as the ImprovDr you can access his comprehensive online Games Library, here: www.improvdr.com.
These workshop will explore David’s games library and teach you many new games as well as David’s own approach to old ones and his approach to game play generally. Completely different games on the Saturday to those taught on the Sunday, so you can choose either workshop or both, and you can also participate in a Sunday evening performance, coming out of these workshops, if you wish to.
Fun times and new inspiration all the way with these workshops!
Enrol in the workshop using the secure PayPal button below or write to admin@impro.com.au for further options.