ClassIdeasTopicTouchyFeely

Bob's Improv Class:

Class Topic -- The Physical Stage

Class Goals

• Lower resistance to touching and being touched. Build trust.
• Play safely, even in combat.
• Improve balance and learn how to fall properly without injury.
• Get comfortable making gross changes in your environment (chases)
• Play outside the traditional stage picture
• Work with the specific terrain of the stage

Syllabus

• Touching other people naturally without feeling oogy

• Safety

  • Falling down properly
  • Stage combat
  • Balance

• Environment

  • Chases and moving through environments
  • Split-scenes

  • Defying gravity (playing at odd angles)

    • Lying down against the back wall
    • Playing in the audience
    • Playing in the moat
    • Other perception-bending techniques

• Stagecraft1

  • Finding your light
  • Projecting
  • Fun with Mr. Microphone

Footnotes

1 Should this be taught in another class?