Instructor: Armando Diaz
Date Taken: July 2011
The final class of the Magnet Improv Conservatory is a Team Performance Workshop. You get 6-weeks of classes and then 8-weeks of shows with the same team. The team-specific nature of the class didn’t lend itself to taking too many general improv notes, but there were a few gems that stood out.
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Class Notes
- you dont want your pieces to be monotonous. if youre noticing a lot of verbal initiations, mix it up with physicality.
- there is no retreat. victory is all we have. once you commit keep going until you are edited. you dont go into an opening or a scene thinking its going to last for X seconds or minute.
- heightening leads to discovery. its what earns the edit.
- dont reduce your vocabulary to just words.
- explore the consequences of your characters’ behavior.
- We don’t want more object work, we want specific object work.
- Look to expand on things, instead of just repeating something from the opening. It keeps you from feeling locked into what was said/done initially.
