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Building on our popular Singing Songs course, Scenes and Songs will take your improvised singing skills to the next level and put them to work in your scenes and stories.

This seven-week course explores the key skills and techniques used in improvising narrative-based performances. Using exercises and techniques inspired by the work of Keith Johnstone and Patti Stiles, students will dive into constructing story arcs and engage in supportive ensemble work, as well as discovering a number of tools to shake up and inspire their scenework skills.

Scenes are the building blocks of improvised theatre, but there are as many different ways to play a scene as there are improvisers. From emotionally-focused play, to creating a narrative flow of cause and effect, deftly weaving themes and concepts together, or just finding something funny to do again (but bigger), how you approach a scene helps to define how it plays out. 

You play as different characters all the time in improvisation – even if it’s just a version of yourself – but the most satisfying improvisation happens when those characters feel alive, with their own thoughts, feelings, and desires.

Building on our popular Singing Songs course, Scenes and Songs will take your improvised singing skills to the next level and put them to work in your scenes and stories.