COURSE OUTLINE Brochure/Website Description: Unleash your creative potential with W.I.T. (Wellington Improvisation Troupe)! Learn to improvise scenes, stories and sagas in a supportive and fun group environment. Includes a Saturday performance day at a date to be advised.

Name of Course: Improv: Spontaneity for the Theatre

Tutor: Wellington Improvisers’ Troup (W.I.T)Expected course outcomesBy the end of the eight sessions, you will:

Have learned some ground rules for improvising with other people to create spontaneous scenes and stories in groups

Demonstrate techniques to free up your thinking and have had opportunities to perform

Have learned to fail gleefully infront of others. Have interacted in a friendly environment.

Main topic: Meet, greet and learn to laugh

Objectives: Meeting each other, building trust and connection.

Main topic: Failing Gleefully

Objectives: Learning how failing gleefully allows creativity to bloom

Main topic: Creativity – being obvious

Objectives: Unleashing creativity through being obvious

Main topic: Losing Control

Objectives: Learn about giving up control and connecting with others

Main topic: The Joy of Change

Objectives:Learn about the importance of being changed and using change as a key to performance

Main topic: Status

Objectives:To learn how status affects our behaviour and how we can use it to create scenes and build relationships in performance

Main topic: Introduction to story

Objectives: Learn some key building blocks of story

Main topic: Performance

Objectives: Put it into practice in a relaxed showcase for friends and family.

Week 1: Meet, greet and learn to laugh (Ground rules – expectations, physical limitations, not about being funny, can be confronting (survival strategies for social engagement). Modelling failure.

Name games (animal names) Circus Bow Equilateral triangle (attacker and defender) Paper, scissors, rock cheering squad Offers (but not as jargon. E.g. we’re going to offer a gift/clap around the

circle) The present of the present Pattern circle and setting up competition Black box May I?

Week 2: Failing gleefully Hug Clumps Circus Bow Ah Soh Ka What are you doing? Freak out – ok to fail Tug of War (mimed tug of war – willing to be vulnerable, to lose) No S game Questions only Rhythm games – Bunny Bunny; Big Booty Again Story, story, die Just a minute (?)

Week 3: Be obvious - creativity Be obvious and circle of expectations Vs Being Clever Circus Bow Stuck in the mud Naming things what they are and aren’t Get physical (knife and fork, machines, environments) Yes, let’s (as communal machine/environment) What happens next? Dolphin training Jump and Justify (two lines, one makes an action, other offers a blind line of

dialogue) Field of dreams – circle of expectations. Thinking of the world and seeing

things and giving thanks for them.. Walk around room and imagine you’re in your house. Look at things, name them and say thank you to yourself. Add detail. Emphasise acknowledgement of offer especially when it’s ordinary.forest/supermarket/museum/

Offers from audience – be ordinary audience!

Week 4: Losing control Rebecca’s

Week 5: Vocal work and The joy of change Vocal warm up It’s Tuesday and emotional change (emotional noises first) Being vulnerable

Week 6: Status Mirror Class photo Status with inanimate objects Status is relative – when you come out you have status relative to space Keith mantra – want to have sex with everyone and thing in room but they

can’t know so seen as available and engaging. Party scenes Gibberish

Week 7: Intro to story Word at a time Story Spine Colour, story, emotion story from childhood (and advance towards) Reincorporation Story diamond (in a group 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4,3, 2 ,1 ) Platform

Week 8: Recap and playing in front of each other Machines Word at a time Yes, Let Gibberish Simple scenes It’s Tuesday Story, story die