Intro to Improv: Finding Truth in Comedy
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 17 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is BELLINGEN YOUTH HUB (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 12pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
A step by step introduction to the building blocks of longform improvisation. Drawing upon your own unique personality and life experience, you will learn the techniques to create multidimensional characters and act out short improvised scenes.
This gentle and supportive process awakens your spontaneity and playfulness allowing you to play intelligently and truthfully.
Keen on this half day course? You could pair it with another half day course to fill up your week!
Check out the other options here.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 17 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is BELLINGEN YOUTH HUB (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 12pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
A step by step introduction to the building blocks of longform improvisation. Drawing upon your own unique personality and life experience, you will learn the techniques to create multidimensional characters and act out short improvised scenes.
This gentle and supportive process awakens your spontaneity and playfulness allowing you to play intelligently and truthfully.
Keen on this half day course? You could pair it with another half day course to fill up your week!
Check out the other options here.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 17 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is BELLINGEN YOUTH HUB (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 12pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
A step by step introduction to the building blocks of longform improvisation. Drawing upon your own unique personality and life experience, you will learn the techniques to create multidimensional characters and act out short improvised scenes.
This gentle and supportive process awakens your spontaneity and playfulness allowing you to play intelligently and truthfully.
Keen on this half day course? You could pair it with another half day course to fill up your week!
Check out the other options here.
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YOUR COURSE TUTOR
Louise van der Post
Louise van der Post is a Lecoq trained actor and teaches Chicago-style improv having trained with some of the best improvisers in the world in Toronto, London and Melbourne.
She is experienced in theatrical mask work, and most of the comedic territories, but also loves working with Shakespeare and other classical texts. Her training in improvisation includes Second City Toronto, IO intensive, and longform courses at both LMA and Improv Conspiracy Melbourne. She performed on the LMA house team in 2019 and prior to this she trained as an actor at the London International School of Performing Arts in 2009.
Louise started teaching improv in Bellingen in 2024 and is currently teaching improv and physical theatre to kids as well as an adults advanced course, and also offers her skills as a private coach to acting students.
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We start each day with fun warmup games, leading into exercises that introduce the key principles of improv such as 'yes and', agreement, spontaneity, listening, and collaboration.
Each day we will apply key concepts to scene work before putting it all into practice through fun performance games. At the end of the five days we will perform our favourite games to a small invited audience of friends and family.
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No experience required.
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NOTE: THIS IS A PLAN ONLY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
DAY ONE
Making and accepting offers, introducing the principle of 'yes and'.
We will take the first steps in exploring scene work and play our first performance games.
DAY TWO
Listening to each other's contributions and being in response to each other. Further steps into the elements that make up a scene.
DAY THREE
Interacting with our environment while on stage, using mime, movement and object work to create imaginary worlds.
DAY FOUR
Creating characters and building on emotion both of which lie at the core of improvisation.
DAY FIVE
Responding to elements that are active and present with us on stage, making it easier to sustain our scenes.
We will then perform a selection of games to friends and family.
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