Instructor: Dave Jadico (CSz Philadelphia)
Date Taken: July 2010
Every year,: ComedySportz: has a tournament where all of the city teams get together to play, take workshops and hang out. This workshop was part of: ComedySportz Tournament 2010 and covers spacework, for both shortform and longform improv.
Workshop Notes
- Every time you touch an object, the audience has a better visual of it
- Breaking a pattern with object work can help inform your scene and how your character is feeling
- Iconic Representation—the one object work movement you do that will tell you the object or the activity
- The audience likes to feel smart. object work is a great way to help them feel smart through the specificy of the mime
- Until youve defined what it is, it could be anything to the audience
- In addition to the object work, where youre looking informs the audience
- Mime is 60% your object work and 40% focus (where your eyes are)
- With focus remember the depth of your focus (how far away is it)
- How fast your eyes move to scan or look at something tells you its size and how close it is to you
- As things are created, they become reality
- Where you walk and move also define whats there or not there (car, coffee table, etc)
