Workshops
We wanted to do something different than what is already being done well in the greater San Diego Improv community. We offer short term, 2-4 week improv workshops. These workshops will focus on a subject the instructor(s) are passionate about. Whether that is a style of play, an improv theory, a specific form or any number of things, we think this will create a space where creativity and learning thrive.
Welcome to Cornerstone Improv.
Workshops Open for Registration:
“EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE” with Luana Proença
Everything is connected to our breath: movement, emotions, and relationships. Using the idea of the seven levels of tension from Jacques Lecoq, slow-motion techniques, and corporal matrices, this workshop will teach you how to use breath to develop your space object work, create characters, and explore their emotions and feelings. Let's breathe Improv together.
The workshop consists of two sections:
1) BREATHING EMOTIONS where we explore how we feel emotions in our bodies and regulate them with our breathing. With simple exercises, we will find the spaces in us to let fictional emotions be felt for real.
2) BREATHING THE MIME where we correlate breath movement with gestures in the scene to create a more embodied illusion in performance.
You will leave the workshop with a greater sense of body awareness and control. You will be introduced to principles of mime and the rhythm of the scene. And you will learn techniques to bring more true emotion to your acting.
About your Instructor:
Luana Proença is a Brazilian artist with degrees in Acting, with specialization in Cultural Management, and Master in Arts. She had her own Theater and Producer School in Brazil from 2008 to 2016, and a taught college Directing and Acting from 2014 to 2017. She moved to Lisbon in September 2018 in order to begin her PhD studies continuing her research in Improv. Her Master’s work was a proposal applied for an Improv Training using Sports, Viewpoints Techniques, and Improv Games. In 2018 she started the project “Visando Impro” with which she writes a blog about Improv in Portuguese, and she also made the Improv Documentary "It was necessary to listen to other voices". She completed the Improv program at The Second City Training Center Hollywood and a few Master Classes from 2016 to 2018. Her background is in Dance, Physical Theater, Dramaturgy and Animation Theater. She teaches and performs internationally with her theater and improvisation workshops and shows. She has published the books "Our Direction on Stake: Directing is Part of Improvising" (2021), "Have you ever wondered if...? Questions for Teaching Impro" (2020) written with 11 other female improvisers from the Feminist Pedagogical Laboratory La Otra Escena, and "Essays on Improv" with members of the European Impro network The SIN. She is one of the creative minds, curator and manager of IRREVERENTE - International Impro Festival of Lisbon. Luana was Dramaturgy and Performative Techniques teacher at Chapitô Circus School in Lisbon. In 2023 she taught workshops and performed in Lisbon (Portugal) , Canberra (Australia), and Brasília (Brazil).
When: Sunday 3/17 10AM - 5PM
Location: College Area (specific location will be emailed to participants)
Cost: $100
Spots: 14 participants total including 2 spot for our Inclusion Scholarship. To apply for the Inclusion Scholarship, please click here.
REGISTER HERE. Tickets go on sale Monday 2/26 at 12PM.
Note: Due to safety and liability concerns, you must be fully vaccinated to attend this workshop. You will be asked to email a photo of your vaccine card for verification.
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