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 will appear below on this page. If you are new to improv, you can sign-up to a beginners’ course instead 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/
- “Improv By Association” – set your mind free and learn a famous show format – Intermediate short course. 7 Monday evenings from July 28 @ Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera St, Braddon. (Lots of scene work that teaches you where to go next and why you’re going there).
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- “You’re Just Playing Games With Me” – just performance games, get prepared for North vs South show series – Intermediate short course. 7 Tuesday evenings from July 29 @ Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera St, Braddon. (Play lots of games and become ready for peak performance).
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- “All About Us” – it’s always about the relationships between characters – Intermediate short course. 7 Wednesday evenings from July 30 @ Blank Creative, 15 Moore St, City. (How to connect with your scene partner, the audience, and your own psyche, for compelling scene work and no doubt some great relationship building skills for life beyond the stage)
Enrol using the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or write to admin@impro.com.au
“Improv By Association” – set your mind free and learn a famous show format – for intermediate/advanced students.
You’re already associated with improv, so you might as well use the power of association to its fullest! Making the next offer in a scene or launching the next new beat of a narrative or the next new scene in a long form typically happens when you make an association – perhaps two characters have a similarity that needs to be explored, perhaps something that was mentioned reminds you of an object and you start playing with a metaphor, or perhaps something pops into your mind from your own life experience. These associations may be obvious and direct, or simply a connection your mind has wandered to on a tangent.
These associations are happening all the time in your mind, to help you make sense of the world, and you can harness the power of these associations, learning to deploy them or let them pass at will, meaning you’ll never be lost for something to do or say in an improv scene.
* In this course, we’ll also use a famous show format we haven’t explored much at Impro ACT, called a Deconstruction, that stimulates a lot of associations, to explore our topic, and we’ll perform one at our end-of-course student showcase show session.
7 Monday evenings from July 28, 7:00pm-9:30pm, @ Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera St, Braddon
Enrol using the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or write to admin@impro.com.au
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“You’re Just Playing Games With Me” – just performance games, get prepared for Nth vs Sth show series – for intermediate/advanced students.
Maybe you’re one of those students who really just loves the short form performance games more than anything else we do at improv, for the sheer fun of them. Maybe you are looking forward to our annual North vs South – The Battles for Canberra game show series, that begins before the end of this quarter, and you’d love to know as many games as possible and get as much practice as possible. If either or both of these descriptions apply to you, then this is definitely the course you want this term!
With a strong emphasis on thoroughly enjoying your improv, this course will also concentrate on the nature of playfulness, to make sure you look forward to every scene, and come away thinking you could never have more fun doing anything else.
7 Tuesday evenings from July 29, 7:00pm-9:30pm, @ Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera St, Braddon
Enrol using the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or write to admin@impro.com.au
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“All About Us” – it’s always about the relationships between characters – for intermediate/advanced students.
If there really is a secret to great scene work, it’s that both audiences and your scene partner are always most interested in the relationship between the characters, more than they care about the story itself or how cool your character is individually. Improvisers who easily create, grow, maintain, and develop relationships create great scenes almost every time they perform, because they engage everyone watching and cause their scene partners to truly listen to and observe their offers. Sounds like a good skill to have, huh?
In this course, we’ll learn how to ensure your scenes are more about the relationship and less about the ‘stuff’, which is much easier than you think, so we’ll also have plenty of time to learn the nuances of developing more interesting relationships and allowing them to change and develop to create a truly rich on stage environment…….., but a warning – these are powerful skills to have off stage when you are meeting people and nurturing real-life relationships, so please, I beg you, do use your powers for good 😉
7 Wednesday evenings from July 30, 7:00pm-9:30pm, @ Blank Creative, 15 Moore St, City.
Enrol using the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or write to admin@impro.com.au
Enrol here for 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/ )