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Play Date at fanaticSalon with Jeff Michalski
Play date is an improv drop-in class that meets every Sunday from 2-4pm.
This class eliminates the need to shovel through a pile of 'improv rules' and allows players to achieve a high level play very quickly in their scene work. That means it's great for everyone, whether they are green or seasoned. It's a good way to understand what improv really is, as well as a way to raise your own level of play very fast. It's a good to brush up class and really great if you're going out on things like sitcoms and commercial auditions where you have to think on your feet.
Tuition is $25.00. per class
Classes every Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at fanaticSalon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd. in Culver City (near the southwest corner of Venice and Sawtelle Blvds.)
For more information, email us at: fanaticsalon@gmail.com
Second City Alumnus JEFF MICHALSKI brings thirty years of experience
teaching, directing, and performing in theatres and nightclubs around
the world. A founding member of the Second City, Etc., Jeff has
directed Second City Revues in Toronto and Santa Monica. In the
meantime Jeff has appeared in 25 feature films, guest starred on
television, in series running the gamut from Columbo to Married with
Children, to Michael Moores TVNation. Jeff is still active as a player
and has probably logged more time improvising in front of an audience
than anybody, ever.
fanaticSalon
3815 Sawtelle Blvd.
Culver City, CA
310.795.7469
Monthly Performance Workshop taught by Jane Morris
Jane Morris, a veteran actress of stage and screen, is also an alumni
of The Second City Chicago, and the founder of Second city's ETC.
Check out Jane's entire body of work at www.IMDB.com
Short Long Forms Performance Workshop
Learn new forms, improve long form skills, & add new material to your performance set.
Perform every week at fanaticSalon.
For intermediate and advanced students; an introduction to long form by participating in improvisational forms that last 10 to 20 minutes.
This monthly course will cover the following improvisational scene structures:
- Adjacent space
- Out Writer
- Scene Grinders
- Time Jump
- Scene on Scene
The work will also include some of the more complex extended large group games
The workshop will also look to develop new games based on the skills and interests of the participants and create an ensemble unique to the workshop.
The workshop meets every Saturday from 1p.m. to 3 p.m.beginning the first Saturday in June and performs every Sunday night at 7 p.m. at the fanaticSalon at 3815 Sawtelle Blvd. (southwest corner of Sawtelle and Venice Blvds.).
Tuition is $150.00 per month.
For more info, email us at: fanaticsalon@gmail.com or call 310.795.7469
fanaticSalon
is located at 3815 Sawtelle Blvd.
in Culver City, near
the southwest corner
of Sawtelle and Venice Blvds.
Improve Your Improv with Isabella Hofmann
This class bridges acting and improvisational skills. Here students will really learn the essence of improvisation, improve their acting skills, and acquire strategies to overcome inhibiting habits or blocks. It includes movement and games as well as scene work, and although students may work on an empty stage, they will leave armed with an amazing and essential set of tools that can be used in any creative endeavor. Recommended for students with an acting background and some improv experience.
Beginning Saturday, June 9th, this class will run for a six week session on consecutive Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at fanaticSalon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd. (The southwest corner of Venice and Sawtelle Blvds.)
Tuition is $250 for the six week course.
For more info email: fanaticsalon@gmail.com
Second City Alumna Isabella Hofmann has over 20 years experience as an actor and teacher for stage, film and television. Her performing credits include being a series regular on such shows as Dear John, Homicide: Life on the Street, and Beggars and Choosers. Recurring roles include JAG and Providence, and film credits include Little Chenier, Touched By A Killer, Princess Diaries II, and Renaissance Man. She also has numerous stage and guest star credits. As a teacher, Isabella has taught acting and improvisation at Columbia College in Chicago, LMU, and most recently at the ActorsCircle with Jeff Michalski, as well as private coaching.
For a complete list of Isabella Hofmann's credits check out her resume on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0389374/#actress
fanaticSalon
3815 Sawtelle Blvd.
Culver City, CA
310.795.7469
Jukebox
Another performance oriented class.
Learn a new form the "Jukebox" while practicing groundbreaking improvisational techniques that lead you to dynamic improvisation scenes. The Jukebox uses randomly selected music played in and out of the scenes to both inspire the player and inform the set. Jukebox will be featured in fanaticSalon performances along side another great form, a homage to the Beat Generation, Beat to Beat.
Jeff Michalski incorporates new tools of stage awareness with some of the most profound discoveries of live performance and spontaneous creative connectedness. These techniques are sublimely simple and make it easier for the players to respond moment to moment, and to define, land, and play in the abstract relationships created by the merging of word, motion, and creativity inherent in the interaction of artist, ensemble and audience. This workshop is lively and fun. And players are guaranteed to leave more alert and vibrant than when they walked in the door.
The class meets every Saturday from 3p.m. to 5 p.m. for six weeks beginning Saturday, June 16th and performs every Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at fanaticSalon
fanaticSalon is located at 3815 Sawtelle Blvd. in Culver City, near the southwest corner of sSawtelle and Venice Blvds.
Tuition is $250.00 for the six week workshop.
For more info, email us at: fanaticsalon@gmail.com or visit www.fanaticsalon.com
Taking on the Bad Scene
The focus of this workshop is to learn to play the scene, good or bad,
deep or shallow, fun to read or just plain dull.
What is a good scene? What is a bad scene? How do you know? At the end of this workshop actors will know the difference. Can a good actor fix bad writing? We'll find that out too.
In this class we take real scenes from current castings and make them so good we can actually showcase them in front of a live audience so you'll know it works. In a short time the actors will get so they enjoy breaking down new scenes so much they will fight to be first to show it. Learning to break down and attack the kind of scenes you get to read in actual auditions will give you a leg up on booking the gig.
Think of it. Getting a ten-page audition scene and being excited to do it. Really excited, knowing you're playing a scene, not reading words. Once the actor learns to forget the words and play the scene with the other actor, not on the page, they will see how easy acting really is. They are having fun in the challenge instead of surviving the process, playing to win.
If you have had a high level of Meisner or Adler or Strasburg or Hagen, this workshop is for you. Robin is well versed in these techniques and employs Viola Spolin's advanced acting exercises dealing with what is beyond the words and how to structure scenes so that you are always feeding off the other actor. The audience sees the character struggling to achieve something then roots for them to achieve it. Do this and audiences will always empathize with your characters.
Tuesday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. beginning Tuesday June 5, and continues until July 17, skipping Tuesday July 3.
We will do a showcase on the sixth Tuesday, July 17, and again on Sunday July 22 at 8 p.m. at fanaticSalon.
Tuition is $250.00
Admittance by interview only
For more information email info@gmail.com or call 310.795.7469
Robin G Brown has a master's degree in acting from the University of Southern California. He currently teaches "The Spolin Technique" for AFTRA. After graduating from USC he work-shopped with Stella Adler in her master class and later taught Improvisation for the Theater at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. His long form Improvisation company, Theatre Extempore, has had extended runs in Chicago and Los Angeles.
fanaticSalon
3815 Sawtelle Blvd.
Culver City, CA
310.795.7469