Make A Scene Online Improv

CREATING A WORLD
Mondays 6:30-8 pm EST
April 7 and 14, 2025 Register on this link

This class series will focus on exercises that forge connections between ideas, activities and characters within environments that combine to create a world. We have to work together to make this happen. Oue individual and collective creative resources form a grounded foundation for discovering and playing with the unusual choices that make improv scenes uniquely fun and magical. 

Through structured scene work grounded in the way people think, behave and engage with one another, we can expand into the weird and the wonderful together. In this process, no one is out on a limb all by themselves. Rhe expansion that comes with this kind of group experience not only makes us more engaging improvisers, but also more prepared for the unexpected circumstances in life that take us out of our comfort zone. This is the richness of improv that cultivates creative courage, taps spontaneity and grows our neural pathways for a more brilliant brain. 

MAKE A SCENE: Playing With Power Dynamics
Wednesdays 6:30-8 pm EST
April 23 and 30, 2025 Register on this link

Power dynamics are a subtle element in many real-life relationships, and ia not-at-all-subtle force in others. Improv is a safe, creative and fascinating way to explore all of them. The roles we play, the status those roles have within a system and the way we express intention and emotion within them generate relationship dynamics. There are so many ways that characters in improv scenes have an impact and influence on one another and we can use improv to explore these complexities. Through radical support of one another in the improv space and games and exercises that provide clear structure with opportunities for creative expression we can uncover the ways that power dynamics shape relationships. We will also examine how characters' response to one another, intentions and philosophy combine to shape the dynamic. This a fun, engaging way to explore power dynamics that can also help understand them in real life in ways that are useful and empowering. 

• This improv workshop series will focus on both short-form games that build essential skills for long form improv and are entertaining and engaging in performance, and scene work from first to second beats. The skills cultivated by these exercises and games include:
  Strengthening the "current" of connection that is the invisible magic of an improv team

• Tapping spontaneity that drives the flow underlying the group connection

• Finding characters through world-building

• Discovering the relationship between characters and their "deal"

• Exploring possible 2nd beats of scenes and trying them out

• Creating scenes through true collaboration and radical support of one another

• Having maximum fun

Instructor: Jude Treder-Wolff