Baltimore Improv Festival

SATURDAY

Directing Improv w/Asaf Ronen, Sat 10:00am - 1:00pm
Tuition: $30

Directing Improv - Asaf Ronen Improv might be the most challenging of the performing arts for a director to skillfully mold his cast, and this class will show you how to get the most out of your improvisers whether in a class or a rehearsal. Techniques for creating lesson plans, orchestrating rehearsals, and giving notes will be explored. Participants will be given the opportunity to apply the techniques through hands on experience directing each other, and at the end of the session there will be a Q&A to address personal concerns of the attendees.

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Truth & Beauty w/ Jill Bernard, Sat 10:00am - 1:00pm
Tuition: $30

In this workshop, Jill Bernard will take you through a series of exercises that inject your work with a little bit of truth and beauty. Having the ability to create improv that is honest and vulnerable adds another layer to your work, a little bit of cake underneath your frosting to take your work from light entertainment to something with resonance. Please wear closed toe shoes to this workshop.

Air Sex Workshop, Sat 10:00am - 1:00pm
Tuition: $30

Training for all contenders for the Baltimore Air Sex Championship, held later the same day! Air Sex is a lot like Air Guitar, but instead of rocking out with an imaginary guitar, you’re making sweet and/or filthy love with an imaginary sex partner. Chris and Tami choose the music, and you come up on stage and show everyone how you do it. (You choose your own music if you enter the show.) Or how you wish you could do it. Or how you once had it done to you, and oh my god was that a bad idea! Workshop attendees get FREE ADMISSION to the Air Sex show later the same day--as long as you're a contender in the show!

Fireball Theory w/Jill Bernard, Sat 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Tuition: $30

This workshop presents Jill Bernard's Fireball Theory and offers exercises to help you improvise faster and harder than you can judge yourself. You will learn to metaphorically hit the scene running and outrun the explosion of self-loathing and doubt like an action movie hero outruns a fireball thus defying the laws of physics. Please wear closed toe shoes to this workshop.

SOLD OUT

What Happens in Improv Stays in Improv, Sat 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Tuition: $30

Don't discard that offer! Any moment from any improv scene can be important. So ditch the script in your head and deal with what's happening NOW - you'll never feel pimped again. Alexis will take you through making small moments into major character, game, and scene choices. Students can expect individualized attention and will leave the workshop with a paper containing notes about their work that day.

Physical Improv w/Asaf Ronen, Sat 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Tuition: $30

Learn what blocks you from throwing yourself more into your body and your environment when you improvise. By freeing up the body, students will discover new characters, different approaches to creating a relationship onstage, and tools to add variety to their scene work. Minimize the reliance on dialogue and learn how to communicate solely through physical nuance using techniques that incorporate elements of clowning, mime, and environmental work into your improvisation.

SUNDAY

Freestyle Rap for Improv Comedy, Sun 10:00am - 1:00pm
Tuition: $30

Any improviser worth their salt should be able to freestyle rap. In this workshop we'll ease into rhyme-dropping with some simple exercises and by the end we'll be in a circle getting all fired up dropping verses and improvising group choruses. Its completely ridiculous but 100% fun.