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Monday Evening Exercises & Improvisational Scene Work Build Character • Touch photo for more
Stuck In Your Head?
Purposeful Movement Matters • Monday AUG 20th • Improvised Scene Work “You don’t have to become more interesting, more sensitive, more talented, more observant – to act better. You do have to become more active.” ~ David Mamet ~ Stay alive in your body. With random...
I found a key…
Emotional Honesty • Monday August 13th • Improvised Scene Work With Text "I give myself to my parts as to a lover." ~ Vanessa Redgrave • You will work scenes with a beginning, middle and end piece of text filling in the rest. And then again with different...
We Want To See You In All Your Messiness
Bye Bye Ego • Monday AUG 6th • Improvised Scene Work "But if what you do or make does not embarrass you sufficiently, then it is probably not personal or intimate enough. The feeling of embarrassment is a good omen because it signifies that you are meeting the...
“I yam what I yam.”
What's Your Point of View? • Monday JULY 30th• Improvised Scene Work “The world of the characters and their relationships is brought into existence by discussion and a great amount of improvisation..." ~ Mike Leigh 2 to 4 person improvised scenes where you will...
Can you feel me…I feel you.
Subtext Scene Play • Monday JULY 23rd • Improvised Workout "If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's...
It Makes A Difference
Commitment • Monday JULY 16th • Improvisational Scene Work “I took a hard look at myself as an actor and finally admitted that in all these years I was never truly doing the work. And if I am going to continue to be immortalized in them then I decided I must commit to...
Relationship is Everything
Luxurious Listening • Monday JULY 9th • Improvisational Scene Work "Listen before anything else." ~ Miriam Margolyes • Take It All In • React Before Words Spill Out • Why rush? What compels you to speak and do? [button...
Waves of Play
BE FREE TO PLAY • Monday JULY 2nd • Improvised Scene Work "It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on your skills. Because the mandate of improv is kind of the same as acting: It's all about your scene partner, it's all about being present and...
Nothing is as it seems…
Scripted 3 person Scenes With Improvisational Work • Monday JUNE 25th • “I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is...
You Can’t Hit It Out Of The Park If…
Mock Audition Practice With Adjustments • Monday JUNE 18th • "If a director, writer, producer, or casting director cannot check a box that says “Visually obvious choice made,” then you haven’t made a choice that works - or at least not one that will win the role or...
You, the Character, the Role
What's all this "character" business? • Improvised Scene Work, Monday JUNE 11th • Come Get Yours "Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications." ~ Alan Rickman “Truly...
Are You A New Breed?
6 Line Dialogue Scenes • Monday MAY 21st • Improvisational Work "It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on your skills. Because the mandate of improv is kind of the same as acting: It's all about your scene partner, it's all about being...
Something On Your Mind?
Write A Scene • Monday MAY 7th • Improvisation With A Twist "It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on your skills. Because the mandate of improv is kind of the same as acting: It's all about your scene partner, it's all about being present...
Let It Land. Then React.
Listen With Wholebody Ears • Monday APRIL 30th • Improvised Scene Work 'Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active." ~ Michael Shurtleff This workshop you will work with limited words, and...
To see or not to see…
Monday APRIL 23rd • Improvised Scene Work • OPEN YOUR EYES to see in the dark, the day, and in your daydreams. No contrived agenda. Truly React to what your scene partner does & says not to what you think you should do, say, or be. Take every little thing in. Make...
Emotionally Loaded
• Uncork Yourself • Monday APRIL 16th Improvised Scene Work "Actors forget that their choices need to read on camera, even if the sound is off. Their performance should be able to be watched with the mute button on, and still read as driven and emotionally loaded....
Don’t be a stiff.
• Free Your Body • Monday APRIL 9th Improvised Scene Work “It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.” ~ Denis Lavant [button...
It’s Not About You, It’s About The Shoe
• Outward Focus• Monday APRIL 2nd Improvised Scene Work “The more a persons’ concentration is outward, the more naturally interesting that person becomes.” ~ David Mamet [button...
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