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Shaun Landry expands the Monologue class where she will teach games and structures of being able to monologue together to create scenes, share the monologue and have different voices come together.
by SHAUN LANDRY
This workshop looks at the three forms of touch - bone to bone touch, muscle to muscle touch and skin to skin touch as a parallel for moments in narrative that are pure conflict, cooperation and forwarding and intimacy and softening, respectively. These build tools for evaluating what a particular scene needs at the moment. This is a narrative Building toolkit workshop that uses physical theatre, embodied practice and scene work.
by LAXMI PRIYA
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Note from Organizer: This workshop involves physical contact of limbs, core and around the back. For a comprehensive learning, a decent amount of push and pull work using bodies, composition work using bodies and some amount of contact to experience the difference between bone to bone pressure, muscle to muscle pressure and skin to skin pressure is significant. You will not be asked for contact beyond your own boundaries.
We are constantly bombarded with thoughts on what these mean. Some people feel that Emotions are key...some feel that Relationships is the way...and others feel that it's all about the game. This workshop will show you how are three are talking about the same thing but just from different perspectives.
by WILL LUERA
Musical improv games are often seen as the hardest type of improv games. FAKE NEWS. IT ISN’T. Come join Timothy as he spill all his tips and secrets to becoming an Ace at musical improv games. We will play iconic shortform games like Irish Drinking Song and Hoedown. On top of that, we will also be introducing the game Ask Auntie, ASAP improv's take on the classic game Bartender, that has Asian festivals in delight and singing in cacophony each time its played on stage.
The workshop will cover the following basics:
Basic voice work such as projection and pitching
Rhyming scheme and structure
Key elements improvising a song
p.s. you don't need to be able to sing.
by TIMOTHY YEO
Note: This workshop starts at 11:00AM and is a 5 hr class.
Short-form improv is fun, fast, and exciting! Short-form teaches you to get to the point faster, know what makes a scene interesting, practice characters, stick to a single thing, and work together towards the same goal. Whether you want to learn and practice short form or pick up some techniques to improve your long-form play, this workshop is for you. Good short-form games require good scene work within a set of confined rules. Good short form does not rely on gimmicks or repeated moves and characters from our backlog. Instead, it requires knowing game mechanics to free your mind to play in the moment (and even knowing when to bend the rules to benefit the scene). In this workshop, we will cover different categories of short-form games, practicing a selection of each type to learn the mechanics of how to play within each framework.Short Version:Explore short-form improv focusing on strong scene work and free play within structured games. Develop clarity, collaboration, and fast thinking skills to improve short- and long-form play.
Sharing the magic of improv with new students is one of the most rewarding aspects of improv. But it can also be one of the most daunting. This workshop covers how to prepare for a class, design the workshop, run exercises, watch a scene, and how to give notes kindly but directly.
Students will: teach other exercises and get feedback on their teaching, develop a workshop outline and learn to revise it. The class will also discuss how to handle difficult situations, the difference between teaching a workshop and coaching a group and close with a Q&A session.
Students are expected to be experienced improvisers (>60 hours of classes and performing) and bring pen/pencil and a notebook.
*Scholarships are available for teachers of Impro Neuf and community builders. Please contact director@osloimprofestival.com
Fall in love with your scene partner and their characters. This workshop will focus on scenes that don't require you to invent but instead discover the subtle choices that your scene partner makes and then fall in love with those choices unconditionally, flaws and all. From within these simple choices and blind love will emerge the comedy that comes with real relationships.
by WILL LUERA
Improvised Monologues can capture and heighten any improvised scene. Whether it is improvised poetry, storytelling or incorporating monologues into genre based improvisation, Shaun will give you the tools to present character driven and real story monologues.
by SHAUN LANDRY
Every one of us carries a rich tapestry of cultural stories, traditions, and experiences. Culturally Proud is a workshop that invites you to embrace and celebrate your cultural identity in improv. Through discussions, guided exercises, and scene work, you’ll learn how to bring elements of your heritage, customs, and perspectives into your characters and stories, creating scenes that feel deeply personal and universally resonant. This workshop encourages you to explore how cultural diversity adds depth and relatability to your improv while connecting you to your own roots and those of your fellow players. Let's add more cultural flavors to our improv!
by LÊ KIM THANH
Improv is rarely a solo endeavor. This workshop will focus on how you can become the best possible partner your teammates could imagine. Games and exercises showing how to listen to what your partner really wants, and turn them into a rockstar. If we’re all doing this for each other, we’re a team of rockstars and we all win!
by JILL BERNARD
Look into the eyes of your partner and give them the best time. Worry less about what will happen and focus on what you have right now and give your teammates the best time and they in return will do the same for you ensuring everyone has a great time. In this workshop you will gain skills in supporting your scene partners in serving the right now on stage.
Impro has a magical, immersive and convergence-y quality that few other artforms can imitate. We not only see different worlds come to life, but quick shifts in perspective and impressive ways in which the improvisers blend the codes of theatre and film for their audience. Some of the most fascinating ways in which we can tell our story is through simultaneous scenes; when it works, we see several improvisers performing different scenes seamlessly onstage at the same time, never missing an ounce of information while staying in their separate world. But how can one initiate these complex scenes without them being mistaken for an edit or the entry of a new character? This workshop will unlock a whole new world of scenework; we will experiment with splitscreens, barndoor edits and we will discover through trial and error a bunch of other funky parallel scenes in the process!
by KELLY AGATHOS
Step by step within the framework of various tasks you will learn the difference between — being an object (maximum realistic), being an anthropomorphic character, and being a person with the characteristics of an object/animal. Expand the spectrum of the characters you can play. The greatest compliment Kaspars had ever received after this workshop was"I used to be scared and insecure about playing anthropomorphic characters in scenes. I didn't like it. But this class changed all that! Thank you!"