Workshop & rehearsal notes, new games and exercises, impro tips and musings at our regular improv blog.
Monday 30th January 2012:
Mask Workshop Notes
Monday 30th January 2012:
New short-form games from last Saturday’s workshop
Wednesday 25th January 2012:
Character Exercises to Play With
Wednesday 18th January 2012:
Long Form / Tall Tales Workshop Notes
Monday 16th January 2012:
Improv books we can recommend
Thursday 12th January 2012:
Yes And, new ways to play the exercise
Tuesday 10th January 2012
Happy and Excited
>> Hoopla Improv Blog
Monday 30th January 2012:
Mask Workshop Notes
Monday 30th January 2012:
New short-
Wednesday 25th January 2012:
Character Exercises to Play With
Wednesday 18th January 2012:
Long Form / Tall Tales Workshop Notes
Monday 16th January 2012:
Improv books we can recommend
Thursday 12th January 2012:
Yes And, new ways to play the exercise
Tuesday 10th January 2012
Happy and Excited
>> Hoopla Improv Blog
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Due to popular demand Hoopla have taken six years of experience of teaching improvisation for scenes and sketches, and adapted it to this tailor made class for stand-ups. Learn how to confidentially and playfully improvise by yourself in front of an audience and with the audience.
Improvisation For Stand Ups Workshop
Available Dates (One day workshop):
Sunday 19th February 2012 BOOK HERE
Sunday 18th March 2012 (Fully booked)
Time: 12pm -
Price: £20. Pre-
Maximum Class Size: 12
Where: The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, Balham, London, SW12 9HD.
Tube/Train: Balham, Northern Line. Balham overground.
Topics
- General warm ups.
- Introduction to improvisation.
- Core improv skills including listening, saying yes, commitment and spontaneity.
- Improv terms ‘offer’, ‘block’, ‘accept’ and ‘yes and’ and how they apply to stand up.
- How to pick up and use offers from the audeince, big and small.
- Improvising solo in front of an audience with full commitment.
- Keeping happy and playful when faced with a quiet non-responsive audience.
- Putting positive energy into the room.
- Improvising jokes and stories on the spot.
- Improvising characters, multiple characters and solo scenes/sketches.
- Just going for it from a given topic.
- Generating content based on the audience, the way they look, behave and talk.
- Involving and acknowledging the crowd.
- Having fun improvising.
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Taught by Steve Roe, Hoopla
Steve Roe is the co-founder of Hoopla and has been teaching improv for over six years. He teaches improvisation to adults every Monday, Thursday and Saturday in London and has experience of teaching beginners, experienced improvisers, stand up comics, drama school students and professional actors.
He has also taught improvisation at Imperial College London, South East Essex College, and to various corporate clients including Ignite and ITV.
Steve has learnt from various teachers including Keith Johnstone, Jonathan Kay, Logan Murray, Dylan Emery, The Chicago Improv Associates and Jay Rhoderick from The Upright Citizens Brigade.
Steve currently performs and produces Music Box the Improvised Musical (5 Stars – Fringe Guru, 5 Stars – Remote Goat), and has performed with Hoopla (5 Stars - Edinburgh Guide) and The Maydays (5 Stars – Three Weeks) and various other shows across London’s improv scene.
In 2010 Steve founded the UK’s first improvised comedy club at The Miller in London Bridge, creating a vibrant community of performers. He currently produces and promotes improvised comedy every Tuesday at The Miller.
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Steve Roe is the co-
He has also taught improvisation at Imperial College London, South East Essex College, and to various corporate clients including Ignite and ITV.
Steve has learnt from various teachers including Keith Johnstone, Jonathan Kay, Logan Murray, Dylan Emery, The Chicago Improv Associates and Jay Rhoderick from The Upright Citizens Brigade.
Steve currently performs and produces Music Box the Improvised Musical (5 Stars – Fringe Guru, 5 Stars – Remote Goat), and has performed with Hoopla (5 Stars -
In 2010 Steve founded the UK’s first improvised comedy club at The Miller in London Bridge, creating a vibrant community of performers. He currently produces and promotes improvised comedy every Tuesday at The Miller.
>> BOOK SUNDAY 19TH FEB
FAQ
Q: How come this one is pre-bookable and the other ones are drop-Ins?
A: So we can keep the class size low.
Q: Why is the class size 12?
A: So the class is small enough for everyone to have lots of stage time, but big enough so that there’s still an audience during exercises.
Q: Who is this suitable for?
A: All levels of stand-up, from brand new to experience pros, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been doing it for. As a lot of the exercises are solo we can adapt them to suit the needs of each performer. At the start we’ll also find out particular areas people want to work on.
Q: Is Steve a stand-up?
A: No, he’s an improviser. This is a workshop based on over six years experience of teaching improvisation being adapted and introduced to the stand-up world with a new point of view. It’s different from other stand-up courses.
Q: Why is it only £20?
A: All our one-day courses are £20, it’s just what we do.
Q: Have you done this course before?
A: Yes. It was previously called ‘solo improvisation’ and we’ve been doing it on a regular basis for a couple of years. The last couple of workshops attracted more stand-ups than usual so we thought we’d make it a specific workshop that was more focussed for stand-ups.
Q: Will you be doing it again?
A: Yes, there will probably be a couple per year, we don’t have any dates for the future ones yet though. There’s also the occasional Solo Impro workshop on our Saturday drop-in sessions , which will concentrate on solo scene-work and characters in a more theatrical style.
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Q: How come this one is pre-
Q: Why is the class size 12?
A: So the class is small enough for everyone to have lots of stage time, but big enough so that there’s still an audience during exercises.
Q: Who is this suitable for?
A: All levels of stand-
Q: Is Steve a stand-
Q: Why is it only £20?
A: All our one-
Q: Have you done this course before?
A: Yes. It was previously called ‘solo improvisation’ and we’ve been doing it on a regular basis for a couple of years. The last couple of workshops attracted more stand-
Q: Will you be doing it again?
A: Yes, there will probably be a couple per year, we don’t have any dates for the future ones yet though. There’s also the occasional Solo Impro workshop on our Saturday drop-
>> BOOK SUNDAY 19TH FEB