Learn Improv Comedy from a Master Teacher: Improvised Storytelling with Simone Tani: Spontaneity, Confidence & Fun

“There are people who prefer to say 'yes' and there are people who prefer to say 'no'. Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.”

― Keith Johnstone

Improv comedy classes are fun, easy and a wonderful way to explore your own creativity and ways to express yourself. In a beginning improv comedy class, you can expect to learn basic improv principles including: agreement, listening and characters.

You can also expect to learn life skills like: being comfortable presenting in front of groups of people, self-confidence and presentation techniques.

This is a six-hour training where we will be exploring storytelling with Improvisation Comedy techniques. We will play simple storytelling games that will help us to bring out the natural storyteller within ourselves.

The course covers topics like how to stay in contact with the audience, build complicity with our fellow improvisers and create stage presence. We will see how we can make other improvisers life easier giving them a good impulse with the voice and the body.

As complicated as it may seem we will learn that improvising a story together is a simple task:

- Listen and observe what is already there, and what you and your fellow improvisers already created together
- Agree with everything that has been already said and focus on developing it
- Keep yourself and your fellow storytellers engaged being simple and having fun with them
- Find a balance between the elements of a story: action, description, emotions
- Embrace the failure. Audience will love you if you can stay positive after you make a mistake.

The Teacher

Simone Tani studied improvisation at the school Verba Volant in Rome and with Keith Johnstone at Loose Moose theater in Calgary; clowning and physical comedy at Second City Theater in Chicago and in London with Mark Bell and Peta Lily (Dark clown); trance and full masks with Steve Jarand (Calgary), commedia dell'arte with Carlo Boso and Onda D'Urto Teatro in Rome.

Simone Tani graduated from Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris where he studied Theater, Clowning and Bouffon.

He's one of the founder members of the improvisation company i Bugiardini in Rome. Simone performs and teaches trance masks, improvisation and drama in the UK, Italy, France, Japan, Taiwan,Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore.

Where?

Theatre Delicatessen, Rehearsal Room 6

How Much?

Waged: £35

Conc. £25

Please note the class is limited to 14. Advance payment appreciated.