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Advanced Skills
six week class

Advanced Skills

Boost your stage presence, sharpen your ability to connect with the audience, and learn how to turn mistakes into opportunities and keep your flow when the pressure is on. Join us and take your performance skills to the next level!

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Prerequisites

Characters and Narrative classes or equivalent.

Course Content

Shelton Theater

$320 tuition · $295 Early Bird through September 4

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  1. Session 1

    Scenes and Games

    Learn to introduce and play a variety of performance scenes and games. Discover the game within an open scene, and the scene within the game.

  2. Session 2

    Group Scenes

    Practice give and take, sharing the stage, soft freeze, and conducting scenes. Learn techniques to shift the focus of a scene, call for transitions, and tag out other players

  3. Session 3

    Audience Involvement

    Bring the audience into your show, getting suggestions, introducing games, addressing the group. Play games that include the audience and practice making them look good.

  4. Session 4

    Negative Offers

    How to handle negative suggestions, cancellations, mistakes, offensive material, dark humor and sensitive subjects

  5. Session 5

    Shape of Show

    Creating a show that is balanced and engaging, learning to read the audience, and understanding how to shift the energy to a positive experience.

  6. Session 6

    Putting it all together

    Bring all your skills and experience into a short-format internal showcase, no breaks, no coaching, no limits.

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