COURSES AND EVENTS FOR INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
Continue your theatre journey, today….
*** NEW!!! – “Addicted to Impro” student packs for those who think they’ll do multiple courses in the future, and can pay early. Read all about it below….
The below courses are suitable for anyone who has completed a minimum of Impro ACT’s “Prepare To Be Unprepared”, or another recognised impro-specific course, or additional intermediate/advanced improvisation training.
- “You and Me” – Intermediate short course, 7 Monday evenings from April 29 – June 24, excluding public holidays. THIS COURSE IS NOW SOLD OUT. TRY “The Creators’ Den” instead 🙂
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- “The Creators’ Den” – Intermediate short course. 8 Wednesday evenings from May 1 in our new city venue. (Devise your own improvised shows, or just workshop those that others suggest and see how and why they work. We’ll actually perform some of them together in public too! Great to take you to the next level, but even if you’re quite new, you’ll expand your understanding of what we do exponentially and be super inspired by all the new ideas)
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- “Addicted to Impro Student Pack” – Choose to pre-purchase four courses, or three, or two, and get a discount 🙂
Enrol in either course or purchase a pack using the Paypal buttons at the bottom of this page, or write to admin@impro.com.au
“You and Me” – with Nick Byrne and friends, for intermediate/advanced students.
Learn to build and grow relationships between characters in impro scenes and games. If you build a good relationship and it either develops or changes, you get great scenes, and seed character-building and narrative. Great fun and also inspiring to consider the offstage benefits of this course 🙂
7 Monday evenings from April 29, 7:00pm-9:30pm, Ainslie Arts Centre, (two blocks from Canberra CBD)
When we improvise, we often tend to get caught-up struggling to create a story or concentrating on whether our character is interesting or consistent enough, and whilst character and narrative are important skills, building good relationships between the characters (and actors) in every scene or game is overriding, because building and maintaining or changing a friendship, family, romance, rivalry, or professional relationship will cause a story and cause your character to grow, and these stories and characters are likely to be far more interesting and fulfilling and fun for both you and the audience.
This course is great if you’re coming straight from our beginners course OR advanced players, because working on this stuff will take everyone to their next level, and as well as building our characters’ relationships, you’ll be learning how to beautifully manage your actor-to-actor relationships with people either more or less experienced or with different strengths and challenges to you, which will make you more comfortable in more situations and thereby free your ability perform at your best.
This one is also great for those who love how improvisation training can help their life away from the stage or classroom, as many of the same techniques in this course can be applied to your next work negotiation, bringing you and your friends or family closer, safe and effective flirtation and dating, auditions, and otherwise managing any situation towards better outcomes with less stress and more enjoyment.
Your on stage relationship work will also include how to deal with difficult or inappropriate offers, empowering you to only do what you are comfortable with in scenes and to understand how you can keep your scene partner comfortable with you 🙂
And of course, those who wish to will have the opportunity to surprise their friends and family with the quality of this work, with our end of term showcase performance. I can wait to lead the teaching of this one 🙂
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“The Creators’ Den” – with Nick Byrne and friends, for intermediate/advanced students.
When you understand how different styles and structures of impro shows work, your on stage performance improves dramatically and becomes easier, because of a broader understanding that helps you feel you know what you’re doing there. In this course, as you learn to create many different show formats yourself, based on each others’ ideas with your tutor’s overview, you’ll learn a much wider variety of potential skills to use in your own performance.
8 Wednesday evenings from May 1, 7:00pm-9:30pm, in our new venue Blank Creative at 15 Moore St, (right in the Canberra CBD)
Led by Nick, you’ll be in safely mentored hands to know you are creating formats with the best chance of success, because he’s created and tried dozens of completely new and completely different show formats all over the world; physical, musical, narrative, relationship, in genres, about the human condition, the actor’s condition, and society’s condition, from flat-out comedic to artistic. Through this work, he found out a lot of reasons a format will be likely to be performed well and satisfy an audience….., and what sounds like a brilliant idea, but typically creates difficult challenges to overcome.
You don’t need to be experienced enough to pitch your show ideas. You can just experience this fascinating process and enjoy playing in lots of different styles, if you want, but everyone in the group will have the opportunity to pitch everything from full show format concepts down to the tiniest seed of an idea. We won’t be able to work on all of these of course, but we’ll democratically decide on few to take all the way to performance, and have quite a few ready to work on outside of the course if we choose.
If you’re someone who has been in impro for a while and would quite like to produce their own shows, Impro ACT will always support you in that wish, at whatever level of independence or collaboration you want or need to make that dream true, so the Creators’ Den is the perfect springboard for you, surrounded by similar folks and also with a group of improvisers earlier in their journey, so you can find out if your concepts are easy for improvisers to learn and rehearse.
Impro ACT had fantastic success with this course concept in years gone by, seeding more opportunities for everyone to perform and even spin-off impro groups and events beyond this company. Come and be part of our next big step forward and yours 🙂
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“Addicted to Impro Student Pack” – Choose to pre-purchase a course in all four terms of 2024, or three terms, or two terms, and get a discount 🙂
You know you’re planning to continue impro courses, learn more stuff, and hang with your friends. Well, if you can afford to pre-purchase terms ahead, you’ll save a few bucks and be helping Impro ACT’s planning and budgeting. You’ll also ensure you get every choice of course you want, because you were first to purchase for that term 🙂 Even if you already purchased Term 1, choose any two, three, or four remaining terms and decide which terms and which courses later. Whilst the payment button says 2024, we’ll definitely let you transfer to 2025 if you want to still buy four courses ahead or proportionate refunds possible if extenuating circumstances cause you to need to drop a term. It’s like being ‘member’ of the company!
PLEASE NOTE “You and Me” has SOLD OUT. To enrol in Creators’ Den, please use the Paypal button directly below or to pre-purchase a package of courses, use the Paypal button at the bottom or email admin@impro.com.au for further payment options. Please include your name and mobile number, and ask to be enrolled.