The Level One improvisation class introduces foundation Improvisation and Theatresports skills that support spontaneity, lateral thinking, storytelling and verbal and non verbal communication techniques. Build your confidence. Dare to trust your instinct. Express your ideas. Have a lot of fun.
No previous experience necessary. A great starting place for everyone!

This is the foundation work for actors, teachers and all hobby players.

• Each class is complete.
• Each class builds to the next.
• All classes support and develop skills.
• All classes include vocal and physical warmups.
• All classes include stagecraft tips and coaching.
• All classes include expert sidecoaching that skills you to start and finsh scenes.

Week One

• Offering and Yielding. What is an offer? How do we give it? See it? Hear it and yield to it? Name it?
• Giving the offer Focus.
• What is focus? How do we giveit? Recognise it? See it? Hear it? Yield to it? Endow it?
• Listening and reacting to other people’s offers.
• Introductory stagecraft.

Week Two

• Taking the offer forward.
• Taking the focus forward
• Developing and idea
• Listening and reacting to others and their ideas
• Overaccepting a focus offered by someone else
• Buidling the story. Advancing and extending the offer and the focus
• Scenework and stagecraft

Week Three

• Working In slow motion.
• Naming and advancing and extending a still and moving focus.
• Working with music.
• Introduction of a performance game.
• Developing scenework and stagecraft.

Week Four

• Creating and speaking in Gibbersh
• Gibbersh styles and accents
• Naming and advancing and extending in Gibbersh
• Translating from Gibberish to English

Week Five

• Building the narrative and developing characters
• Endowing the offer with an emotion.
• Making and yeilding to an emotional transition.

Scene work

Characters and Status.

• What is status? Recognising an offer or status.
• Raising and lowering your own and another player’s status.
• Status scenes and endwoment.
• Making a status transition

Week Six

Introducing improvised singing and music.

• Developing the vocal warmups and sound and movement exercises we have used to date we extend the sounds into song.
• Improvised Songs, sung stories, madrigals, Sing About It, and arguing in song .
• A variety and manner of singing set ups.
• These and other structures encourage a free and natural improvised singing in a safe and supportive environment.

Week Seven

Building scenes and playing introductory performance games that develop an endowment of

• Place
• Relationship

Open scenes without game strucures to challege flegling skills to create stories.

Week Eight

A revision of all foundation skills to date.
The final session challenges players with a variety of of problem solving exercises, performance games and open scenes to stimulate skills and develop and sharpen new ones.
The session culminates in a final celebration exercise that brings all the skills togther.