A List Of Concepts We Will Work On

OFFERS

Physical and Verbal offers you make to your fellow players. The very foundation of improv.

ACCEPTING AND BLOCKING

How to recognize when you yourself are blocking and how to work on an attitude of acceptance.

SPACE WORK

Creating objects out of pure space and making the audience and your fellow players really see them.

ENDOWMENT

How you treat other people onstage determines who they are in the scene. Do they scare you? Make you happy? Inspire devotion? Takes the focus off of your own character and builds a web of relationships the audience finds fascinating.

STORY BUILDING

Creating interesting and compelling stories by building on previous offers and fulfilling promises made to the audience. The funny comes naturally when you do this.

CHARACTER WORK

At first, ways to be you, but a different version of you. Later, ways to be someone completely different!

TRUE EMOTIONAL RESPONSE AND ACTING

Humor is tragedy plus time, and we strive to find the truth in comedy. No silly responses, just the truth.

STATUS

Something we deal with on a daily basis at home, work and in the street. The basis for comedy and drama.

THAT’S IT!, IF A, THEN WHAT ELSE?, THE RULE OF THREE

Finding the key to a scene and extending it into a game or pattern- so much fun!

GIBBERISH

How to do a scene without words but replete with meaning and emotions. Helps the verbally gifted to inhabit their bodies and shows the tongue-tied how important body language is.

GENRES

Ah, the icing on the cake! From Film Noir, Science Fiction and Shakespeare to Westerns, Fairy Tales and Documentaries, genres spice up any scene.