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)
