Actor Wake Up Your Work(shop) at Phinney Sandbox
Monday Evening Exercises & Improvisational Scene Work Build Character • Touch photo for more
What’s Your Dilemma?
MONDAY May 29th • Write A Scene On Your Feet • To begin you will choose unrelated, unplanned actions along with some basic character choices. You and your scene partner will then improvise a scene. Hyper listening and seeing > reacting > relationship and story...
Make Movement Matter
Monday May 22nd • Whole Body Listening & Reacting • Navigate in your improvised scenes with emphasis on your physicality to follow your impulses. You will work with gaps of silence and music to fuel your behavior while engaging with your scene partner(s) and all...
Can you read my mind?
MONDAY May 15th Emotions Come and Go • We will work improvised scenes where you get engaged with your environment, objects, and others and practice uncorking and corking those pesky emotions. Containment, what's that? Meryl Streep says, "My job is usually to express...
What Happens When Your Giraffe Escapes?
MONDAY MAY 8th Improvised Scenes with 6 Lines of Text • 3 for you, 3 for them All scenes with the same dialogue learned on the spot. Different circumstances & intentions make new story every time.. “God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the...
Think Outside The Box
MAY 1ST IMPROVISED SCENE WORK Where Imagination Rules • What scene have you never dared to do? Think outside your box. Bring a who what & where... or pull it out of the hat to experience some magic! “You put your energy, your thought, your imagination, your spirit...
What’s Your Point… of view
MONDAY APRIL 24th we explore with characters! Bring your beginners mind... ...
Write A Scene On Your Feet With Unrelated Actions
MONDAY April 17th AHA: "Expression of discovery or realization" WRITE A SCENE on your feet via unrelated eventful actions that tell story and reveal relationship COME AWAY WITH MORE: Playfulness 2.0 - Self-Confidence - Real Things That Are Funny - Make room for more...
Really? Improvising With Written Dialogue?
EVERY MONDAY in APRIL we AHA! April 10th Seattle Improvisational Scene Work • AHA: Expression of discovery or realization • [button...
Emotional Truth vs. EMOTING
APRIL is for AHA! Monday April 3rd Seattle Improvisational Scene Work • AHA: Expression of discovery or realization • [button link="mailto:workshops@wakeupyourwork.com?subject=Happy%20to%20participate%20on%20April%203rd&body=Good%20as%20word%20for%20April%203rd"...
Can You Taste And Smell With Your Soul?
MONDAY March 27th! Seattle Improvisational Scene Workout MOMENTUM: the strength or force that something has when it is moving • [button...
That Felt Good
MONDAY MARCH 20th • IMPROVISATIONAL SCENE WORK • Seattle MOMENTUM: the strength or force that something has when it is moving • [button...
Who’s your sound engineer?
MONDAY MARCH 13th • IMPROVISATIONAL SCENE WORK MOMENTUM: the strength or force that something has when it is moving • [button link="mailto:workshops@wakeupyourwork.com?subject=Making%20some%20noise%20March%2013th&body=Let%20me%20in%20March%2013th!" type="big"...
March Where Senses Fire
A MARCH 6th MOMENTUM MONDAY • Momentum: the strength or force that something has when it is moving IMPROVISATIONAL SCENE WORK [button link="mailto:workshops@wakeupyourwork.com?subject=You%20will%20see%20me%20Mar%206th&body=I'm%20in%20on%20Mar%206th!" type="big"...
Z is for ZigZag
MONDAY FEBRUARY 27th • Seattle Improvisational Scene Work • ZIGZAG: a line or course having abrupt alternate right and left turns • Characters, scenes, story that: Zig and zag Shake up the status quo Color outside the lines [button...
Y is for Yield
MONDAY FEBRUARY 20TH • Seattle Improvisational Scene Work • YIELD: give in to, give way to, agree to, consent to, go along with, allow, surrender, give up the struggle... • We're talkin' moments here. Moment to moment to moment. Present to the presence of scene...
You
MONDAY FEBRUARY 6TH • Seattle Improvisational Scene Work • X FACTOR: a variable in a given situation that could have the most significant impact on the outcome. What makes you, YOU? Makes you unique? Do you bring all of you to whatever role you take on? It takes more...
W is for Whimsical
JANUARY 30th Monday Improvisational Acting Workshop • Seattle • [button...
Diverse Vision = Better Voice
JANUARY 23rd • Monday Improvisational Acting • Seattle VISION: the ability to see VOICE: a particular opinion or attitude expressed [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