COURSESLearn Improv.
IMPROV 101Free Fundamentals
Just like a college course, Improv 101 provides the basic concepts of a subject so that you can build upon it. Your participation in this four-week session will allow you to enhance your listening ability, apply the concept of “yes, and,” gain confidence in communicating with others, and learn how to start, continue, and edit improv scenes. Did you notice how that list includes competencies beyond the stage? It’s true! Improv can be helpful in anything you do. So, whether you plan on performing or just want to laugh while you build a new skill, you’ll find the fun here.
These improv classes in New Orleans consist of four FREE two-hour sessions. Registration is required so that we can keep classes small enough for everyone to get the attention and opportunity they deserve. At the culmination of the course, attendees will put on an evening improv show.
IMPROV 201Crafting Characters
Characters help filter ideas, emotions, and actions to move through a scene. This goes beyond looks or accents to motivation – wants, needs, and perspectives. Characters build a unique world through their eyes. This course will support you in utilizing traits, physicality, emotions, relationships, and specificity.
Improv 201 is open to anyone that has had previous improv experience. These improv classes in New Orleans consist of eight two-hour sessions, and at the culmination of the course, attendees will put on an evening improv show.
IMPROV 301Inside the Scene
If you’ve ever wondered how improvisers make their performances look like they are scripted, then you’ll want to take a deeper dive into scenework. From inside the scene, you can make choices that take you off in one direction or other choices to head off in another. This course will help you identify and play through the game of a scene, establish and follow patterns, understand scene types, and use devices. You’ll also elevate your ability to support your scene partners and scene premises and how to ask for and use audience suggestions. All of this will take your ability to co-create in the moment to the next level.
Improv 301 is open to anyone that has had at least two levels of improv classes and consists of eight two-hour classes. At the culmination of the course, attendees will put on an evening improv show.
IMPROV 401Forms Focus
How can you use your improv knowledge to embellish stories and explore themes in a full performance? Forms can help! Learning more about them allows you to employ structural guidelines to string scenes together in a longer show. This course will teach you the basics of three forms – Armando, Close Quarters, & Monoscene. You can use them to find your own improv style and structure. We’ll spend two weeks on each form, so you’ll be able to understand their unique characteristics. You’ll also develop your ability to support your scene partners and use devices to further scene premise, narrative, and game.
Improv 401 is open to anyone that has had at least three levels of improv classes and consists of eight two-hour classes. At the culmination of the course, attendees will put on an evening improv show.
Improv 101 is a great course and lots of fun. I was very nervous before my first class as I had never done anything like this before but just going there and meeting other people like me really helped me open up and shut off my adult brain.
CLASS PARTICIPANTA.K.
I signed up because I thought it would be a good outlet for my creativity and this class has been that and so much more! I just finished my final class in Improv 101, and I can’t wait to continue onto the next class!
CLASS PARTICIPANTEllie
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