Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

The next Caught In The Act show will be:
Saturday, May 5, 2007
8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Jefferson Hall, 1525 Santa Barbara Street
$5 for tickets at the door

It was good to be back this week. Everyone who reported on Mike and Jim’s class from last week said those that two did a fabulous job, so thanks to you both for filling in. I don’t have pictures from that class, so we’ll jump right in on this week’s report.
We’ll start off with this [...]

I think this picture, taken during an Irish Drinking Song scene, captures a lot of what improv means to me. Mark, Aydin, Justine, Kathy, Ben, Mark, and Dustin are just having fun. Yeah, there’s structure and some pressure around performing, but as everyone gets comfortable with a game or pattern, you really find that the [...]

Wednesday’s class had 19 people, which allowed us to do some scene work with smaller groups. We also got the chance to do some long form drills at the end of the night. I’m going to try and keep that part of the evening in our workshops.
I love this shot, where Jim and Kathy appear [...]

The recital was a fantastic, and I’m extremely proud of how everyone did on stage. I haven’t pulled any pictures from the video, yet, but here are a couple of group shots taken after the show. Unfortunately not everyone is in the picture, but I’ll name those who are, starting with the back row: Mike, [...]

We’ve gotten to the point where a class of 18 seems like a small class. In this picture, we’ve broken up into three groups to each tell a One Word Story. This is one of our standard warm up exercises and you can see Mark, Mark, Andy, Kelly, Ben, Justine, Allegra, Scott, Li-At, Angela, Mike, [...]

The next Caught In The Act show will be:
Saturday, April 7, 2007
8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Jefferson Hall, 1525 Santa Barbara Street
$5 for tickets at the door
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