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What are the seven habits of highly effective improvisers? We'll look at each in turn and use exercises and improv games to really explore them in depth. Fifteen years of improv experience distilled into seven bullet points.🔹 Listen — Be a better listener. It’s a fundamental skill in improv. Everything else you do proceeds from a state of receptivity.
🔹 Accept & Build — Enter as a blank slate. Be inspired by what your partner gives you and offer something of yourself in response.
🔹 Be Generous — Let your default position be one of play - positive, accepting and joyful.
🔹 Feel Something & Be Changed — Don’t treat the scene as an intellectual exercise. How do your characters feel about each other? Be willing to be changed by those feelings.
🔹 Play Intentionally — Make offers with brevity and clarity. Pace yourself. Use specifics.
🔹 Build from You — Take inspiration from your own life. Share something of yourself. How is this scene different because you are in it?
🔹 Live in the Now — What is happening now? Not in the future. Not in the past. Not to other people. But. Right. Now. Discover, don’t invent.
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💡 Recommended Experience Level: Any
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🎨 About the Teacher:
Chris Mead is an improviser, writer, and creator. He lives in the Surrey Hills with his wife, Laura, and his Cavapoo dog-pal, Radio. Chris is passionate about how improv can make us better artists and more empathetic human beings. He has collaborated with improv schools, festivals, and performers worldwide, choosing projects that aim to share the joy and craft of the art form.
He is a head teacher at Hoopla Impro, the biggest improv school in the UK, as well as offering numerous independent classes under his own name.
Chris performs with the legendary sci-fi improv team Project2 and the experimental theatrical collective Duologues. He studied theatre at the prestigious Royal Holloway College and continues to explore improv with schools, theatres, and practitioners worldwide.
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🌍 Explore more at the Oslo Impro Festival: www.osloimprofestival.no/
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Chateau Neuf - Det Norske Studentersamfund, Slemdalsveien 15, 0369 Oslo, Norge,Oslo, Norway
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