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Why
kids' Improv Classes? With improv, kids learn
how to:
-
Be positive
- Get
more creative
- Focus
on the people they're working with
- Take
risks
- Overcome
shyness
These
classes create a fun and supportive environment
for kids to learn the basics of creating improv,
story telling, and stagecraft. The classes are
taught primarily through games, play, and improved
stories.

Session
one: Jan 23 - Feb 27
Session two: Mar 27 - May 1.
Ages
4-6
Saturdays 10-11am Creative
Play 6 weeks $60
with Jessica Arjet
Ages
7-10
Saturdays
11am- Noon Play and Improv
6 weeks, $60
with Amira Wizig
Ages
11-14
Saturdays
11-Noon Improv Skills,
6 weeks, $60 with Asaf Ronen

Starting
January 19th:
Ages
4-6
Tuesdays, 10-11am Creative
Play 6 weeks $60
(second session begins March 2)
with Jessica Arjet
Ages
7-10
Tuesdays,
11-Noon Play and Improv
6 weeks $60
(second session begins March 2)
with Jessica Arjet
Ages
9-11
Tuesdays, 12:30-2pm Fundamentals
of Improv 12 weeks $180 with Jessica
Arjet
Ages
11-14
Tuesdays
2:00-3:30pm Improv Skills
12 weeks $180
with Jessica Arjet
Six-week
classes end Feb 23, with another six-week
session running March 2- April 13 (skipping March
16).
Twelve-week
classes end April 13.
Class
Descriptions:
Creative
Play - Pre-schoolers get to exercise their
thirst for dramatic play. We use the principles
of Improv to teach basic stagecraft, story telling,
team work, comedy and dramatic rythym. And we
have a whole lot of fun!
Play
and Improv - The kids will have a blast learning
the fundamentals of Improv, stage craft, storytelling
and teamwork. Every week we will learn new games
that teach while having a great time.
Story
Dramatization - Based on the Process Drama
movement, each class starts with a short "hook"
activity, and then builds as students and teacher
improvise an entirely new story together.
Fundamentals
of Improv - Learn how be positive, take risks,
and focus on the people you're working with. This
class will be a fun and supportive environment
for kids to start focusing on what makes improv
work.
Talk
Show Madness - Middle-schoolers love to talk,
so this class gives them the chance to hone presentation
and acting skills in the roles of host, guest
star, commercial presenter, and more, all while
researching and creating character profiles for
the parts they'll improvise during a show.
Improv
Skills Teens will start honing improv skills
like understanding their role in a team, saying
"yes!", narrative construction, public speaking
skills, and enhancing creativity in this fast-paced
and exciting class. We will learn improv games
as well as begin to focus on scene work and learn
the art of long form improv.
All
classes held at the Hideout
Theater (617 Congress)
Jessica
Arjet, founder of the Flying Theater Machine,
is a mom of two who graduated from the Heroes
of Comedy Improv
School in 2003 and was immediately asked to
join the troupe. She can be seen most Saturday
nights playing in the "Maestro" improv
show at the Hideout. She teaches drama, comedy,
and Improv at Zach Scott's Performing Arts School,
the Lockhart Community Theater and privately,
and runs the Flying Theater Machine, Austin's
only improv comedy for kids. She is also a professional
Clown (Penelope
Foolish) in and around Austin, and grew up
in amateur theater playing more roles than she
can remember.
Amira
Wizig has taken classes and served as a teacher
assistant at the Hideout's Heroes of Comedy Improv
School. Amira has presented on arts integration
and teacher professional development strategies
at state and natoinal level conferences, and has
taught drama for the Williamstown Theater Festival,
the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, the Alley and
Main Street Theaters in Houston, and Theater Action
Project in Austin. She has a BA in English from
Rice University and an MFA in Drama and Theatre
for Youth from UT Austin.
Asaf
Ronen is creator and Editor-in-Chief of
YESand.com, a website devoted to improvisation,
and the author of Directing Improv: Show the Way
By Getting Out of the Way. He has been involved
in improv since 1990, starting in college and
working with Theatresports, ComedySportz and several
improv troupes with whom he created original new
longform shows.
He
resides in Austin where he is Marketing Director
of the Austin Improv Collective and producer on
TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP, a documentary on
legendary improvisers TJ & Dave that premiered
this year at Austin's South by Southwest Festival.
Asaf
has taught improvisation in Canada, Great Britain,
Norway and in twenty-three of The United States.
His directing credits include the all-girl group
goga, the improvised comic book adventure show
Ka-Baam!!, and Death in the City, a dramatic longform
improv piece, at the NY Fringe Festival.
Asaf
has taught throughout NYC's public school system
as a resident artist through LEAP and New Horizons
and as part of Weist-Barron's ACTeen. In 2000,
Asaf worked with Cirque du Soleil as a scout for
improvisational talent.
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