This intermediate/advanced level class allows students to practice the essentials of long-form improv comedy. Students will learn to build scenes by “yes, and”-ing, activate their listening, support their scene partners and to play in the reality to create fun and comedic improvised scenes. Students will play and learn in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Students will...
Ever watch shows like "Whose Line Is it Anyway" and think, "Hey...I wanna try that!" Well, now you can! Let the improvhi team introduce you to the wonderful and AWESOME world of improv! Whether you’re wanting to break out of your shell, work on your public speaking skills or just want to get your brain...
Join us for some live comedy every First Saturday at The Arts at Marks in Chinatown! Featuring some of Hawaii's top players and special guests! Open improv jam to follow. Anyone can play! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Cost: $15 online or $20 at the door Parking: Street, Paid Garage or Valet SEE YOU THERE! *21 and...
Jonathan Pitts from Chicago Improv Festival and Chicago Improv Productions presents his acclaimed workshop on whole body listening for one afternoon only in Honolulu - this Saturday from 2:30 to 5:30. "One major skill all schools of improvisation have in common is the need for listening. True listening is a whole body activity requiring constant...
On the Spot Improv presents the Walkabout Wednesday Improv Throwdown! Free Comedy! Now in its Third Season, this high-energy short form improv comedy show pits 1 guest Improviser against our Iron Improvisers in a 2v2 battle for points, laughs, and audience appreciation. Your suggestions start the scenes, your approval crowns the winner! To keep the...
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Individual talent makes a scene good, but working as a team makes a scene great. In this workshop we will explore what it takes to be a true ensemble member. We will practice techniques of both verbal and non-verbal collaboration, staying in-synch with your scene partner, playing off each other’s strengths, and...
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Through improvisation exercises and scene work, we will explore the infinite ways to express gender and how to comfortably and truthfully play characters across the gender spectrum. We will learn to “make mistakes” and support one another in improvising characters with greater specificity and authenticity. Experience both the freedom and responsibility in...
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Quite often we find that our improv scenes begin at the beginning. This usually waists time, resulting in the audience watching the improvisers figure out what the scene is about. If we start in the middle of the scene and we are already in action than the scene gets a rolling start....
The seasoned professionals at On The Spot Improv are beginning another round of the Improv Academy. You have the choice of Improv Fundamentals (10:00-noon) or Musical Improv (noon-2:00). Both guarantee you'll expand your improv horizons as you play with new ideas, new games, and new forms. New Saturday Academy of Improv classes for August. Improv...
May The 4th Be With You As a part of “The May The Fourth Be With You International Star Wars Fan Day” On The Spot Improv is hosting 2 readings of William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth return. On Saturday May 2 at 7:30pm and Sunday May 3 at 2:00 pm at the ARTS at Marks...
“On the Spot” offers a speciality class: How to Work With Multiple Scene Partners. This class is designed to teach the techniques and tricks in creating great scenes with multiple people on scene partners. Classes start May 2, 2015 at 10:00 am at the ARTS at Marks Garage; Cost will be $100 for all 4...
On the Spot Improv presents the Walkabout Wednesday Comedy Throwdown. This FREE short form improv comedy Show pits 1 guest Improviser against our Iron Improvisers as they do battle for points, laughs, and audience appreciation every Wednesday night. Your suggestions start the scenes, your approval crowns the winner! To keep the improvisers honest, our referee will...
This year’s “Improvaganza Closing Ceremony” will feature the annual Improvaganza Mash Up. The Mash will feature performers from this year’s improvaganza selected to be in groups at random. Each group will have 15 minutes to create a new show format and then 15 minutes to perform it. About Improvaganza: Improvaganza! The Hawaii Festival of Improv...
Improvaganza presents the "Women in Comedy" discussion panel featuring: Kristen Lucas, Shaun Landry, Jill Eickmann and moderated by Improv Hawaii's Kimee Balmilero. About Improvaganza: Improvaganza! The Hawaii Festival of Improv is a gathering and celebration of Improvised theatre in all its diverse expressions. It is the Hawaii’s only international festival dedicated to Improv comedy and...
Improvaganza's Alternative Stage features three very unique improv show including: "Boxeatori B-Treato" from Turin, Italy "Super Mega Art Show" an Improvaganza Fan Favorite "Hush" by Hawaii's On The Spot About Improvaganza: Improvaganza! The Hawaii Festival of Improv is a gathering and celebration of Improvised theatre in all its diverse expressions. It is the Hawaii’s only...
Improvaganza presents the "Ladies Only Stage" where the women run the show! This block of shows features two all female improv teams! "The Pin-Up Squirrels" - New York, New York "Essence Improv" - Los Angeles, California About Improvaganza: Improvaganza! The Hawaii Festival of Improv is a gathering and celebration of Improvised theatre in all its...
The Cinema Game is Jean Louis Barreault’s exercise that teaches you everything you need to know about acting (except voice). Learn to develop complementary characters, strong needs, powerful transitions, subtlety, physical awareness, team work and create wonderful stories all in silence. 3 strangers enter a cinema with no direct communication they gradually become aware of...
Real ones. Fake Ones. The one you need for Armando. The one you need when they don’t have the sides and they just give you the character breakdown. The ones to flesh out what you are writing. Whatever the use for performance and elsewhere Shaun Landry gives you the tools to tell a story on...
Through exercises for the body, we will find your key to open your comic way of your brain. The workshop has its roots from Commedia dell'arte and moving from the spontaneus way of The Italian comedian like Roberto Benigni finally give emotions and a touch of poetry of teachers as Federico Fellini. Fast and Funny...
Headlining this block of shows and making their return to the improv stage after a 7 year hiatus is Honolulu's own "Screwbuki!" Joining them will be local team "Teen Angst" and Tall Grande Venti" About Improvaganza: Improvaganza! The Hawaii Festival of Improv is a gathering and celebration of Improvised theatre in all its diverse expressions....