Improv For Everyone




Improv For Everyone

This class outlines the basic techniques of Improvisation. I explain how they can be applied to enhance stage and screen acting, as well as how non-actors can enhance conversation skills, overcome shyness, and be more comfortable teaching online classes.

1. Improv GPS ("Yes, and..."):

  • Introduces the single, guiding principle that makes successful Improvisation possible and less intimidating.

  • Provides an example of the 'Sympathetic Listener' Exercise that demonstrates how to effectively and easily make an Improvised scene move forward and grow.

  • Dispels the notion that good Improv requires that a participant try to be funny or be naturally comedically gifted.

  • Emphasizes how essential listening is and how much easier Improv is when you make what your scene partner is saying and doing your primary focus.

2. Better Conversation:

  • Demonstrates how Improvisation skills can enhance the essential life skill of conversation.

  • Identifies the bad conversation habits that unknowingly cause us to stop listening to one another, or just make them less interesting to be a part of.

  • How the "Yes, and..." template can enrich human interaction in daily life and make conversation in stressful situations flow.

3. Low % choices:

  • Details the poor choices for what to say and do that cause Improvised scenes to stagnate and fail.

  • Explains how these same poor Improv choices relate to how we interact with others less effectively.

4. High % choices:

  • Provides a list of choices that will bring success in scene work.

  • Explains that high % Improv choices mirror what works with collaborations in daily life.

5. The Five ways of adding new information:

  • Lists all the tools Improvisers use to make live scenes more dynamic.

  • Emphasizes the Importance of adding information in other ways than just dialogue.

  • Makes actors aware of how to make their performance more dynamic by utilizing VISUAL ways of communicating their character's inner life.

6. Scene work step by step:

  • Takes the fear out of Improv by providing a simple, step by step approach that not only brings a high % of success, but also keeps Improvisers from freezing up or going blank.

7. The Foundation of a Scene:

  • Outlines the four essential pieces of information that provide a solid foundation for an Improvised scene to be built on.

Learn how you can apply the techniques Improvisers use in improving your interaction with others.

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What you will learn
  • The power of "Yes, and..."
  • Low Percentage Choices
  • High Percentage Choices

Rating: 3.7

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 39 mins

Instructor: Sean Hogan


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