workshops
Be Here Now:
Joy and Presence in Scenework
2-Hours | 16 Person Max
Experience: Beginner/Intermediate
Presence is the name of the game. A workshop born of research and creative exercise experimentation, this long running workshop is a fan favorite. Come do two person connection work, actively listen, find the fun. It’s all right there in front of you. Part bohemian methodology, part scenework, this workshop is both invigorating and full of meaningful moments.
It’s Already There
2-Hours | 16 Person Max
Experience: Beginner/Intermediate
We've all been in an improv scene that has felt like work - rather than allowing relationship to develop and content to arise, you've wasted the moments feeling lost about plot going on trying to force an agenda to happen. In this workshop through listening work, group exercises, and two person scenework with side-coaching, we'll find that everything you need was in the scene from the impetus as long as you lean into what makes the artform beautiful - creating with each other and listening to each moment along the way.
Emotional Fluidity
2-Hours | 16 Person Max
Experience: Beginner/Intermediate
Looking to get more emotion out of your characters? Audiences connect to emotions much easier than just dialogue. Using music as an emotional anchor, you will find your character’s emotional core and emotional depth, thus creating a more three-dimensional character.
Shortform in Longform
2-Hours | 16 Person Max
Experience: Beginner/Intermediate
Shortform performers shouldn’t fear Longform – they are even more well-equipped to understand game, finding patterns, and making quick decisions & choices. With decades of professional Shortform, they’ll use their experience to help dually-interested improvisers transfer to longer piece work.
Musical Improv
2-Hours | 8 Person Min - 16 Max
Experience: Beginner in musical improv, Intermediate in scenework
Improvising music is a freeing, empowering, and joyful space - and you can start right here! Tara & Rance will teach you all proper warmups, short musical theory, committing to the moment, and leaning into emotions so you can earn the song right in front of you. We'll do vocal work, scenes into songs first playing in pairs, and even stepping swiftly into beginning side-support of your clinic ensemble.
Musical Improv
3 day intensive
6-Hours/Day | 8 Person Min - 16 Max
Experience: Beginner in musical improv, Intermediate in scenework
Take a deep dive into Musical Improv! In three days you will learn how to sing boldly and intuitively, support musical scenes as an ensemble, and ultimately how to wrap it all up in a show.
La ronde
2-Hours | 16 Person Max
Experience: Intermediate
This classic form focuses on skills to dig deeper into characters and their relationships to tell a fuller story. Let’s use this to dodge the pitfalls of stereotypical narrative improv, and let the chemistry help us discover the deeper connections.
pretty flower
2-Hours | 16 Person Max
Experience: Intermediate
Also known as Spokane or Beer Shark Mice, this is the perfect form to encompass group scenes, quick tag edits, and environment/object work. Discover connections, build your world, and play hard!
cats & dogs
2-Hours | 16 Person Max
Experience: Intermediate
Sometimes the quickest way to break bad improv habits is to go to our base human reactions. With focus on specific common habits, attendees will be immediately rewarded for good moves, and immediately snapped out of making bad moves.