COURSES AND EVENTS FOR INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
Continue your theatre journey, today….
The below courses are suitable for anyone who has completed a minimum of Impro ACT’s “Prepare To Be Unprepared”, or another recognised impro-specific course, or additional intermediate/advanced improvisation training.
ALL new courses at this level start February and will appear below on this page. If you are new to improv, you can already sign-up to a course here: https://impro.com.au/beginners-courses/ or if you’d like a one-off improv class or experience at any level, you can do that now, here: https://impro.com.au/one-off-workshops/
- “Improvising With Stuff” – puppets, masks, props, costumes, and more – Intermediate short course. 7 Monday evenings from February 10 @ Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera St, Braddon. (Most improv happens with no props, costumes, or other physical items. This course is an introduction to using “stuff” in ways that enhance your improvisation rather than restricting it. How do I make an connect with a puppet? How do I make a mask convey emotion? How do I grab available props and costumes without interrupting the flow of my scene? This and much more). Please note that this course is slightly more expensive to allow for extra materials to be provided.
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- “Elements of Play” – fill your toolkit with inspiring theatrical elements to use anytime – Intermediate short course. 7 Wednesday evenings from February 12 @ Blank Creative, 15 Moore St, City. (Learn simple stage techniques to give your performance an inspiring edge and versatility. Learn how to work on stage in other dimensions, such as playing ghosts, provide off-stage voices or talk directly to the audience, work with languages you don’t understand, move stylistically, and other elements that lift theatrical quality with that extra ‘wow’ factor).
Enrol using the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or write to admin@impro.com.au
“Improvising With Stuff” – puppets, masks, costumes, props, more – for intermediate/advanced students.
Most improv happens with no props, costumes, or other physical items. This course is an introduction to using “stuff” in ways that enhance your improvisation rather than restricting it. How do I make an connect with a puppet? How do I make a mask convey emotion? How do I grab available props and costumes without interrupting the flow of my scene? This and much more.
7 Monday evenings from February 10, 7:00pm-9:30pm, @ Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera St, Braddon.
Explore the fascinating world of improvising with stuff. When you put on a mask, your perspective on the stage and the wider world automatically changes, and you also need to move differently to communicate what we’d normally see in your natural face. When you work with puppets, they can do things that human actors can’t. When you perform in costume and use real set-pieces and props, you can really lift the theatrical quality of play, but how do you do it without those items defining your character’s freedom to improvise, and how do you decide to use these things spontaneously without interrupting the flow of a scene.
This course will be super-fun with something new every session. Please understand there is a slight increase in cost for this one to assist us in providing materials. Book fast, because we’re sure this one will book out pretty quickly.
To enrol, use the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or if you have any issues, contact admin@impro.com.au for further options.
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“Elements of Play” – fill your toolkit with inspiring theatrical elements to use anytime – for intermediate/advanced students.
Learn simple stage techniques to give your performance an inspiring edge and versatility. Learn how to work on stage in other dimensions, such as playing ghosts, provide off-stage voices or talk directly to the audience, work with languages you don’t understand, move stylistically, and other elements that lift theatrical quality with that extra ‘wow’ factor
7 Wednesday evenings from February 12, 7:00pm-9:30pm, @ Blank Creative, 15 Moore St, (right in the Canberra CBD)
Sometimes when you watch a show by experienced professional improvisers, there’s a real ‘wow’ factor, because they do something on stage you’d never thought to do. These are usually not better ideas for lines to say. They are typically something to do with how they stage a scene physically or different way they choose to communicate vocally. They are those elements when you say, “Oh wow! I didn’t know you could do that in improvisation”. This course will show you a range of these elements and we’ll practice using them, so you can incorporate them into your arsenal of performance techniques.
Perhaps, it’s the way you face the audience or not, or your scene partner or not. Perhaps you speak and they don’t. Perhaps their character knos yours is there, but your character doesn’t know they are. Perhaps you just speak two different languages and don’t care. Perhaps you flip-flop from communicating directly with your audience and your scene partner, or perhaps they are providing your voice from off-stage.
After this course, your improv will never be the same. You’ll never be lost for a new way to inspire your scene. Both intermediate courses were sold out last term, so book early for this one.
To enrol, use the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or if you have any issues, contact admin@impro.com.au for further options.
Enrol here for either of the above courses using the Paypal buttons below or write to admin@impro.com.au for further payment/enrolment options:
*** By selecting an option with the weekly journal, you’ll get additional learning materials in written form with a discounted 13 week subscription to An Improviser’s Learning Journal. (To find out more about the Journal or order a Journal subscription separately, go here; https://impro.com.au/learning-journal/ )