ALLIGATOR IMPROV AND SELF EXPRESSION

Why am I smiling happily into the middle distance if my scene partner just told me we're watching the Hindenburg go down? Do I tell them it's just a mirage? Can I smile harder and find a way to keep being happy about it? When you think you can't make sense of seemingly contradictory pieces of information in a scene it's hard to avoid the temptation to take things back, drop your choices, negate what your partner is creating or throw in another piece of information that cancels it all out. In this workshop we're going to work on justification and staying in the world we've created and trusting that we can come up with a reason for anything. There are no bad moves in improv, only bad support and if you can learn to trust that anything is figure outable you can Yes And anything!

You'll get to practice:
1. Brainstorming justifications together as a group.
2. Being comfortable with having unusual justifications for your behavior in character.
3. Justifying several unusual pieces of information at once.
4. Taking your time adding new information one brick at a time with your scene partners until you've collaboratively created a reality that's more interesting than the one either of you had in mind.