Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

For the next few weeks, Victoria will be teaching the workshop. I’m on vacation until Thanksgiving (I’ll be traveling in Malaysia) and this coming Wednesday November 1 the class is canceled. But the following Wednesdays will see Victoria shaking things up.
Also, while I’m gone, this blog won’t be updated much (or at all). I’ll be [...]

We are canceling the class for Wednesday, November 1, 2006. The entire facility is being used for a rummage sale and they don’t have an alternate space available. I wasn’t able to find us another location (within budget and time constraints), so we’ll cancel for this week.
Sorry about any inconvenience.

Here are a few pictures from the last class, most of them taken by Andrew. I tried to color correct, but with mixed results, as you’ll see.
Our focus for the night was on physicalizing.

Scott made an appearance and is seen with Victoria in this Create an Object to Speak exercise. They are in a hospital’s [...]

Here are a few photos from Caught in the Act’s October 21, 2006 show. We had a good sized crowd and it was a fun show.
These images are all captured from video, and may be a bit blurry.

The Gibberish Translator scene was pretty good with Neil translating a disagreement on cooking styles between Victoria’s character [...]

Last Tuesday morning (3:00 am), we had a very weird power surge at my home which blew out all of our computers. Although I was able to get access to the internet, the photos I had for a couple of blog posts were stuck on those systems.
Just a couple of hours ago, we finally got [...]

We had 11 people in our class this last Wednesday. It wasn’t that long ago when I would have considered that a BIG class. Compared to most of our classes for the last year, however, it seemed pretty small. We took advantage of the opportunity to do exercises and games in smaller groups.
For the night, [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Bill Arnett at iO Chicago wrote up another interesting post, this time about “the right way to do a scene”. His point: there really isn’t a right way to do a scene. There are plenty of things you can do wrong, but there isn’t some absolute best way for a [...]

Mike updated our poster for the Caught in the Act show, this Saturday Oct. 21 at Jefferson Hall.You can find the poster here, or click on the image.
The specifics for the show are:
Saturday October 21, 2006
8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Jefferson Hall
1525 Santa Barbara Street
Tickets: $5 at the door

When there aren’t any pictures, there isn’t as much to write about from a class. We were down to 17 players, which makes this class a relatively small one. And, we had no brand new players, everyone was returning with some experience. So, we did a few more 3 person games.
In addition to the warm [...]

I was just directed to a Santa Maria improv group named Mission Improvable by someone from work (thanks Rick). I recognize some of the players in the group from John Kinde’s days running the Theatresports franchise up there, including Jeanne Sparks who was always a political oasis for me. Several of us from the Santa [...]