Actor Wake Up Your Work(shop) at Phinney Sandbox
Monday Evening Exercises & Improvisational Scene Work Build Character • Touch photo for more
Start Right Where You Are
Our last workshop, Monday June 24th, where you will make discoveries, let yourself be seen, and take some risks.
2,3,4,5 person scenes. Relationship always rules. Follow wherever the breath leads. Be vulnerable. Hold nothing back.
15 Seconds + 15 Seconds + 15 Seconds + 15 Seconds…
Viola Spolin said it well. “Acting requires presence. The state of play gets you there.”
And now for something completely different…
June 24th 2019 is our last workout at...
How Long Does It Take To Become Aware?
MONDAY JUNE 10th• Improvised Scene Work • Moment to Moment • "I like capturing the moments in what is sometimes quite a banal setting. I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways... the set-up might seem a very average situation, but there's...
No Matter How You Slice It…
MONDAY JUNE 3rd • Text & Improvised Scene Work • “You don't learn your lines, you live in the imaginative moment and the line is inevitable in that situation." ~ Fiona Shaw We'll work with 6 lines of dialogue & last two lines improvised learned on the spot....
Hold on to your point of view until something happens.
MONDAY May 27th • Improvised Scene Work • “I don’t see the conception of character as a finite thing. The character is not some painted-on picture of what we have decided in rehearsal, then presented as a finished product to the audience. The character is simply the...
When the pin drops…
MONDAY May 20th • Improvised Scene Work • "Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time." ~ Nathan Fillion Whole body listening with exercises...
Where’s Your Confidence?
MONDAY May 13th • Audition Cold Read Practice • ‘I come like this, I read like this, this is the type that people see me as,’ and then having a self-acceptance of it so that when you walk in the room, you’re just really owning the space and owning your voice.” ~ Katja...
Write Your Story With Actions
MONDAY May 6th • Improvised Scene Work • “The world of the characters and their relationships is brought into existence by discussion and a great amount of improvisation … And research into anything and everything that will fill out the authenticity of the...
Stay Crystal Clear
MONDAY APRIL 29th • High Fidelity Improvisational Scene Work • "Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active." ~ Michael Shurtleff When you listen intently, move with intention, and...
What happens when you change your boundaries?
MONDAY APRIL 22nd • Improvised Scene Work • NO CLASS APRIL 15th “Your best work is the result of your unconscious. It knows how to make its points to you, so coax it out.” ~ Mike Nichols When we surrender the ego, we let go looking good...wonderful imaginations can...
How you move, what you do. Shazam.
• Improvised Scene Work • Monday APRIL 8th “I love doing improv. It's a totally terrifying experience, but it's something that I've always felt so strongly about and that I'm kind of obsessed with. It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on...
Intuition vs Intellect
MONDAY APRIL 1st • Improvised Scene Work With Text • “Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.” ~ Glenda Jackson Everyone...
Everyday, until one day…
MONDAY MARCH 25TH • Improvised Scene Work • "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." ~ Neil Gaiman [button...
‘Twas brillig,’ yes it is…
MONDAY MARCH 18TH • Improvised Scene Work • Fellow actors say she works instinctively. Hugh Bonneville, who played her boss in Twenty Twelve, says, “Olivia thinks talking about acting technique is a load of old twaddle. She’s probably right but, just for the record, I...
Never On Neutral
MONDAY MARCH 11TH • Improvised Scene Work •"Your choices for your images and thoughts in “the moment before” can augment your emotional life, intensity, focus, conflict, and precision in your scene " ~ Mark Stolzenberg [button...
(What just happened?)
MONDAY MARCH 4TH • Improvised Scene Work • "Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active." ~ Michael Shurtleff Yeah... listening is not just waiting. What's gonna happen when you are...
They’re rooting for you.
MONDAY FEB 25th •Improvised Acting Work(shop) • What people respond to is authenticity and you being uniquely who you are and not trying to be someone else.” ~ Laura Benanti From the moment you walk into the room...until the door closes behind you, make that...
Kay LaVergne Jaz
Educator
Improvisational Acting Workshops
No matter what we “do” it’s all based on 100% commitment with …”active listening and breath awareness”.
Some of the themes we emphasize:
- Mining Emotional Truth
- Character Outing
- Narrative
- Specificity Exercises
WHERE
In the ABQ area…To Be Determined
DATES & TIMES
To Be Determined
COST
Whats comfortable for you
CLASS SIZE
up to 12 max
PARKING
Free street