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Actors' Improv Workshop with Bobbi Block

For:  Actors who are interested in exploring unscripted theater, and Improvisers who are interested in exploring naturalistic acting! 


This program teaches a honed method to build compelling scenework exploring authentic relationships, both funny and serious.  Just as writers are advised to 'write what they know,' participants are taught to improvise from their own experiences and meld fact with fiction.

This truth-inspired, emotionally-grounded method allows both comic and dramatic moments to arise organically.  Participants learn to create a strong emotional point of view, be affected by their partner, and explore both verbal and nonverbal offers (silence, breathing, physical contact).  Participants also learn how to simultaneously behave as both actor and playwright to build the tension and dramatic arc of a scene. 

Instructor: Bobbi Block

Bobbi Block is the Founder/Producing Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater.  Tongue & Groove works in the style of Actors Improv taught in this program.  For more information and to view video clips of T&G shows, go to tongue-groove.com. 

Bobbi has a Masters degree in Theatre, and has trained with master improvisors at renowned improv theaters around the US including Annoyance, IO and Second City.  She currently teaches Improvisation at Temple University and Drexel University in Philadelphia.  She taught Improv at New Zealand’s University of Otago and throughout New Zealand and Australia.  She returned to NZ to direct her signature format, SECRETS, for the New Zealand Fringe Festival.  In addition, she has toured Europe teaching Actors' Improv to various improv groups, and has also taught Improv in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, where SECRETS continues to be performed. 

Bobbi is an Applied Improv Facilitator and Coach and has worked for 20 years around the world teaching Leadership, Collaboration and Presence skills to corporate executives using acting and improv techniques.

 

1 March 2017, 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Minor Works Building
22 Stamford Ct, Adelaide
$40 per attendee

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