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Upcoming Events
- May 22, 2013
FREE Improv Jam Session
8:30 pm - May 23, 2013
Pay 'n' Stay Thursdays: Wine 'n' Vine and DCH Diaries
8:00 pm - May 24, 2013
The Early Show $10
7:30 pm - May 24, 2013
Prime Time Comedy $10
9:00 pm - May 24, 2013
Late Night Improv $10
10:30 pm - May 25, 2013
The Early Show $10
7:30 pm - May 25, 2013
Prime Time Comedy $10
9:00 pm - May 25, 2013
Late Night Improv $10
10:30 pm
- May 22, 2013
Tag Archives: scenes
Fun Fighting
You’ll often find yourself during your improv career arguing on stage. It’s an easy scene to get into because we naturally like to prove we’re correct about something. Also, we feel that by giving a scene conflict, we’re making it … Continue reading
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Space Work is Important
If you’re an improviser, you know how important it is to maintain some sort of reality when you’re on stage. Whether that’s holding a gun properly (no pointing fingers!) to putting on clothes to answering a phone, the way you … Continue reading
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Tagged impro, improvisation, scenes, space work, truth, video
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Touching You, Touching Me
Too many times we witness scenes of talking heads. While there is nothing incorrect about that, it’s more exciting to see a scene that involves movement, maybe even….touching. Consider the relationship scene. Couples in real life touch each other, make … Continue reading
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Tagged contact, improv, movement, performing, physical, scenes, touching
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Andy St. Clair’s Workshop Secrets
We recently spoke with Dina Facklis about improv and some upcoming workshops she and her buddy, Andy St. Clair, would be conducting at DCH. She offered some great advice and choice quotes. But you know what was missing? Andy. Andy … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy St. Clair, improv, interview, monologue, scenes, workshops, writing
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Upcoming Workshops: Dina and Andy
There’s a new business-world trend that has a direct relation to improv: Asking why. Business leaders are asking themselves why they’re doing something, rather than asking what they do or how they do it. It’s a great trend, and I … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy St. Clair, comedy, Dina Facklis, fun, improv, monologue, scenes, Seinfeld, workshop, writing
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Stayin’ Alive
How many times have you been in a scene and you just know it’s over, but no one is editing it? Or maybe you’re in a scene, and you can feel that your partner is having trouble saying or doing … Continue reading
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Tagged emotion, improv, instructions, lessons, performing, scenes
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The Giving Game
One of my favorite things to do when I introduce strangers to one another at a party is to make up things they each like just to get a conversation going. For example, something like this: Me: Hey Sam, meet … Continue reading