Community Theatre Offers Adult Improv Classes This Fall
August 11, 2016 at 2:27 p.m.
By Staff Report-
Classes will focus on the basics of improv, and an advanced course will be offered for those with prior improv experience.
Improv is a form of comedic theater in which participants perform unscripted scenes, such as in the hit show “Whose Line is it Anyway?”
Improv classes and training also are offered across the country not only to strengthen performers, but to assist in strengthening basic business and job skills to be used in the workplace, according to a press release from CSCT.
Both beginner and advanced improv classes will be offered for eight weeks. In the beginner course, students will learn the basic principles of improvisation. Classes will focus on character development, consistency, spontaneity, team-work and world-building on a very basic level so as to build each student in confidence and the understanding of improv.
The advanced improv class will focus on the performance of both short-form and long-form improvisation and view improvisation as an artform unto itself. Advanced students will be given the opportunity to perform prior to the Center Street Community Theatre’s production of “Over the River and Through the Woods” this fall.
Trevor Jaynes and Eric Totheroh will instruct the beginner and advanced classes, respectively.
Jaynes has extensive experience performing improv at IU as well as instructing improv classes and workshops, including instructing improv classes with the Center Street Community Theatre this past spring. Jaynes is looking forward to instructing the beginner improv classes again this fall, the press release states.
Totheroh also has experience as a performer and founding member of Back in Five, the premiere improv troupe at Grace College. He also studied longform improvisation at the iO Theater in Chicago, the home of longform improvisation and starting point of many famous comedians such as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Stephen Colbert.
“Improv is such a fun way to explore serious topics and themes while still enjoying the surprises and quirks that come with a lack of pre-planning,” said Totheroh.
Improv classes will begin from 9 to 11 a.m. Aug. 20 at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts and continue weekly through Oct. 8. Students must be 18 years or older to enroll and will be required to pay a $20 registration fee upon enrollment.
For more information or to enroll, call the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts at 574-267-8041. Deadline to register is Aug. 19.
The Center Street Community Theatre is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to stimulating and maintaining local interest and participation in the theatre arts. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/CScommunitytheatre.
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Classes will focus on the basics of improv, and an advanced course will be offered for those with prior improv experience.
Improv is a form of comedic theater in which participants perform unscripted scenes, such as in the hit show “Whose Line is it Anyway?”
Improv classes and training also are offered across the country not only to strengthen performers, but to assist in strengthening basic business and job skills to be used in the workplace, according to a press release from CSCT.
Both beginner and advanced improv classes will be offered for eight weeks. In the beginner course, students will learn the basic principles of improvisation. Classes will focus on character development, consistency, spontaneity, team-work and world-building on a very basic level so as to build each student in confidence and the understanding of improv.
The advanced improv class will focus on the performance of both short-form and long-form improvisation and view improvisation as an artform unto itself. Advanced students will be given the opportunity to perform prior to the Center Street Community Theatre’s production of “Over the River and Through the Woods” this fall.
Trevor Jaynes and Eric Totheroh will instruct the beginner and advanced classes, respectively.
Jaynes has extensive experience performing improv at IU as well as instructing improv classes and workshops, including instructing improv classes with the Center Street Community Theatre this past spring. Jaynes is looking forward to instructing the beginner improv classes again this fall, the press release states.
Totheroh also has experience as a performer and founding member of Back in Five, the premiere improv troupe at Grace College. He also studied longform improvisation at the iO Theater in Chicago, the home of longform improvisation and starting point of many famous comedians such as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Stephen Colbert.
“Improv is such a fun way to explore serious topics and themes while still enjoying the surprises and quirks that come with a lack of pre-planning,” said Totheroh.
Improv classes will begin from 9 to 11 a.m. Aug. 20 at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts and continue weekly through Oct. 8. Students must be 18 years or older to enroll and will be required to pay a $20 registration fee upon enrollment.
For more information or to enroll, call the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts at 574-267-8041. Deadline to register is Aug. 19.
The Center Street Community Theatre is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to stimulating and maintaining local interest and participation in the theatre arts. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/CScommunitytheatre.
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