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Impro Zone

Impro Zone is an exciting and motivating performance that illustrates and inspires creativity and risk taking. Built around the fundamental skills of improvisation: spontaneity, character and scene building, Impro Zone practically demonstrates skills which can then be applied to any chosen area of impro, including Theatresports™.

Impro Zone opens with an entertaining illustration of basic terminology - Accepting, Blocking, Wimping, Hogging - where students and teachers can develop a shared terminology and understanding. This is followed by the performance section where students will see the skills in action as the improvisers create spontaneous scenes using audience suggestions, their own agile brains and bodies... and volunteers.

Impro Zone aims to

• assist teachers in their improvisation and Theatresports™ units as an introduction for new students or enhance work already in progress;
• inspire students in the true spirit of improvisation which is teamwork, communication, trust, respect for others' ideas, and dealing light-heartedly with failure;
• explain, clarify, and apply the skills and basic terminology of spontaneous improvisation in performance;
• perform games used in Theatresports™ where students can see these principles in action.

They introduced and demonstrated the skills needed for improvisation in a clear and entertaining way.
Mount Waverly College

Impro Zone is available ON CALL in metropolitan Melbourne throughout the year, and will be ON THE ROAD statewide in Term One, Three and Four

Check out Impro Melbourne's other offerings for 2010 - Losing the Plot and Impro & Theatresports™ Workshops

For more on Impro Melbourne click here.

*Please note - if you are booking an On Call performance in regional Victoria, you will incur an additional travel fee

Artforms: Drama, Improvisation

Key Themes: Confidence, Experimentation, Creativity

Specific VELS:

Interpersonal Development - Working in Teams

Personal Learning - Managing Personal Learning

The Arts - Creating and Making

English - Speaking and Listening

Communication - ALL

Thinking - ALL

VCE Links:

Theatre Studies - Units 1 and 3-4 - Stagecraft, Collaboration, Creation of Character

Drama - Units 1 and 3-4 - Expressive Skills, Stagecraft, Using Stimulus, Collaboration, Perform a Character

English Language - Unit 3 - Communicate Information, Ideas, Attitudes and Prejudices

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