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Asheville, we're back with quality classes led by a vaunted veteran improviser in a glorious downtown theater space.Start your year off right with a resolution to unleash your creativity and boost your confidence in unscripted situations.
Intermediate Improv: The Finer Points of Inspired Improvisation
Theme: "Build a Garden, Not a Garbage Dump"
taught by improv instructor extraordinaire, Tom Chalmers
a six-week session starting January 28th
Tuesdays 6:30 - 9:00 PM
16+, Limit 12 students
$220
Classes held at North Carolina Stage Company
15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC 28801
Prerequisite:
Introduction to Improv at Asheville School of Improv (or other accredited improv academy)
To register go to: https://avlschoolofimprov.com/
click on the "Intermediate Improv" box
This class concludes with a free student showcase in the space on Monday, March 10th.
Class Description; This course will encourage students to sprinkle their scenes with the seeds for success, Create competent and more than capable characters. Establish environments filled with functioning elements and a surplus of options available at arms length. And build relationships where people like each other or at least see that the other has something to offer them.
Intermediate Improv reinforces all the skills learned in Introduction to Improv – listening, commitment, intuitive reaction, and repetition of patterns – by applying those techniques to more advanced scene work, character-creation scenarios, storytelling structures, and other entertaining theater games. This course will have a particular emphasis on making physical choices and being active in the building of scenes and relationships.
Take it yourself or tell someone you know who needs to take this class.
About The Asheville School of Improv
The Asheville School of Improv has emerged as the central training ground for aspiring improvisers in the Asheville area. Led by esteemed instructor Tom Chalmers, the Asheville School of Improv offers classes that cover the fundamentals as well as the finer points and far-reaching possibilities of performing in an improvised format. More and more people from more and more places are saying “yes” to The House of “Yes And,” from those focused on a future as an improv comedian, to aspiring actors seeking to expand their skills, to interested individuals who are intrigued by the challenge of the sport of spontaneity.
Launched in 2016 , the Asheville School of Improv grew out of the former Asheville acting conservatory, NYS3, which had been offering improv classes since 2012, all taught by one teacher, Tom Chalmers. A graduate of Columbia University, Tom has been absorbing, performing, and advocating improv comedy for over thirty years. While at college, Tom spent summers in Chicago studying with Second City and Improv Olympic, where he learned under improv legend, Del Close. Tom chose to stay in New York where he trained with The Groundlings East / Gotham City Improv. He was a student, performing company member, teacher, and eventually Artistic Director. While in New York, Tom also trained with the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and Burn Manhattan. Tom’s former students have gone on to work on such shows as Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Reno 911. Now it's your turn.
Tom has been an instructor at NYU, a guest lecturer at Columbia, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Warren Wilson College. Tom takes all the best ideas and approaches from all the people and programs that he has worked with and blends them together to define his supportive yet demanding style of teaching.
Tom is a member of the popular long-running local improv troupe Reasonably Priced Babies, and part of the Asheville improv ensemble, Scuttlebutt.
For more information about The Asheville School of Improv and Tom Chalmers, visit https://www.facebook.com/ashevilleimprov
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28801
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