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Improv Special — Special Improv Class

Thursdays 7-10pm starting Jun 26, 2008
Prerequisites: Must have previous UCBT class experience. See course description.
Cost: $175

OPENINGS & GROUP GAMES

Discovering, Supporting and Heightening the Group Mind in Openings and Group Games

This is a Four Week Intensive Workshop focusing on the skills necessary to 'follow your foot' as an ensemble. Specific exercises used in this class concentrate on the ability to offer unwavering support to your ensemble in order to create something amazing. Your fear of 'wondering what it is' will be replaced with 'discovering what it is' by supporting and heightening the group mind. The focus of this class is strictly on Openings and Group Games.

Both individuals and current ensembles are encouraged to register for this class.

Prerequisite - Completion of Improv 401

Class Size 14 students.

No Class July 3rd

Christina Gausas

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Christina Gausas studied improvisation with Del Close and Charna Halpern, and performed and taught at IO Theatre in Chicago before moving to New York City. Christina appears regularly on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and has appeared in Important Things with Demetri Marting, The Al Franken Show, and The Colbert Report. New York Magazine also named Christina "One of the 10 Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of". Improv shows include: Let's Have a Ball, Assscat, Dorff & Gausas, Chicago Style, Gravid Water, Delaney & Gausas, and directing the Mosaic NYC.

Student Feedback

Student Feedback:

"Christina is a great teacher because she makes her students feel special."

"Christina was able to get her points and concepts across clearly and helped us find confidence and our improv 'voice'. Her positive spirit is infectious and refreshing."

"Christina brings warmth, passion, generosity and tremendous intelligence to her teaching. This class dramatically changed the way I approach improv for the better. Christina's teaching is essential to anyone who wants to do truthful, meaningful and hilarious improv."