Advanced Improv Essentials! ✨A Four Week Course✨ (In English)

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Time: 11h-14h (3 hours, with break)

Where: Salles Saint Roch, 35 Rue Saint-Roch, 75001 Paris (salle Connan)
When: Four Saturdays + Sunday-night show!

• 24 October
• 31 October
• 7 November
• 14 November
• Show: 15 November at 21h30 @ Le Kibélé

Age: 18+
Cost: 70e for the four weeks (12h + show)**

What: In a supportive, low-pressure environment, we’ll build upon some core principles of improv—listening and connecting, creating a shared reality, making strong choices— to learn our first longform: Monologue Deconstruction (it's more fun than it sounds!). Through games, exercises, scenes, and laughter, we'll work on walk-ons, tag-ins, pulling premises, actionable gifts, sustaining POV, support work, performance readiness, and more.

You’ll build some confidence, stretch your creativity, and connect with others. Fun! Improv is a fun thing to do!

✨ What to Expect:

• Fun (told you!), interactive exercises that warm up your body and brain
• Simple ways to approach responding playfully to support yourself & your scene partner(s)
• A focus on trust, teamwork, and naturally finding the funny together
• Increased confidence in your ability to make strong, playable choices through supporting your scene partner(s)
• The unexpected (a twist!)

Can I play? It's open to anyone who has 1) done Improv Essentials! or 2) has taken an improv course/multiple (guided by a teacher, not jams) workshops.
Let’s do some make-em-ups! 🎉

Who is writing this? Lexie and Thom!

I'm Lexie, a writer and improviser who grew up all over because my dad was probably a spy. I moved to Paris from LA, where I trained and performed at the some biiig theaters. In my 20 years of improv, I've been on and coached a dozen different house teams. I currently co-produce and -host Improv Fight Night Paris, a fiercely noncompetitive battle for laughs on the last Monday of every month.

And I’m Thom! I’ve been an improviser for nearly 20 years, I've trained and played mainly at and around the Magnet Theater in NYC,. In Paris I occasionally perform with Quincy & Alex, Improv Playground, and the Imaginary Friends. I work as a mental health and creativity coach in addition to offering improv workshops, classes, and coaching/directing in and around Île de France.

* A show?! Shows can feel scary for some, and they are integral to the learning (and fun playing!) experience. There is a whole different energy and context than in a classroom with others in learning-mode, and we will absolutely not push you into the deep end without you knowing strong skills and perspectives to help you thrive on stage

** What if I can’t afford that? Please still reach out! We don’t want money to be the only reason that you are unable to play/take this opportunity. We can talk about sliding scale, skills-exchange, barter, etc. We’re all human beings with dignity, and there are ways we can and will make this work for everyone. Give yourself the gift of knowing that this is a YES.