Started Improv 201 at UCB today. Here’s a funny video for inspiration. There’s comedy in truth - and I saw a lot of this today, and even noticed myself doing some of this. For instance…my popcorn alway made it TO my mouth, but never IN my mouth, even though I’d go back for more.
Ever wondered what lay beneath those “censored” red bars of this now infamous play of “Party Quirks”? Wonder no more.
Started Improv 201 today. Here’s a fun video for inspiration.
(Source: colin-mochrie)
Had my Improv 101 show at UCB today! What a rush performing on stage and hearing tons of laughter. Especially thrilling because I had no idea what I was going to say today. There was no script, and that was completely out of my element.
My favorite scene played out when I stepped up with one other girl, and I’m pretty sure neither of us had an idea of what to say. It wound up being a really funny scene where I got to play someone where everything I did made me look like I was making fun of Native Americans. That sounds terrible, but it was really funny, I swear.
I guess my next step is to join a practice group. Any ideas?
xx Danielle
My Improv 101 class! (Teacher in second photo). What a hilarious group of upstarts!
Well, I’ve done it! I’ve gone and signed myself up for Improv classes, and I’ve chosen the most illustrious of schools, Upright Citizens Brigade.
I don’t know why I chose the one-week intensive - where they cram eight, three hour classes into five days - though. I’ve been through Days 1, 2 & 3, and I’m having a blast.
I’ve learned many technical lessons that I’ve read about in books, but the biggest lesson I’ve learned so far, is that every choice is correct, every choice is terrible, and every choice is hilarious!
It doesn’t matter. No one is going to be stellar on their first day (or week) so we’ve taken the pressure off each other (and ourselves) and just enjoy being.
We are encouraged to use stories from our lives to inspire our scenes and I’ve learned more about the people in my class in three days, and they’ve learned more about me, than most people do in a year.
But, I guess that’s showing my heart and there’s truth in comedy and comedy in truth. It’s also private moments made public.
Ill write more after the week is over!
Xx Danielle
Actress in the rough.
The profession of acting has been maligned throughout the ages. The actor has been considered foolish not only when he was clowning on stage but even for having chosen to be an actor - a vagabond or hobo strolling through life without importance or worth. He has been denied burial ground and has been accused of prostitution and other varieties of immorality, egomania, vanity, ruthlessness, hypocrisy, toadyism, to name a few. Even when his gifts were recognized as extraordinary, his talent was looked upon as an accident of nature. When the public turned him into an idol, they treated him like some rare species behind bars. They poked into his private life and examined every detail of it with the audacity and curiosity they might have exhibited while watching monkeys at their most intimate moments in the zoo.
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