This class will have a threefold approach: narrative improvisation, dialects and language, and movement. Students will learn storytelling techniques as well as advanced improvisation skills, so that students may form an ensemble and develop dynamic collaborative skills to form a cohesive improvised narrative.
Students will also learn Transatlantic for the various characters, with some French/German sprinkled in! The dialects will be approached in a multi-sensorial way, with a focus on the physical changes, the phonetic sound changes, and with immersion (listening to primary sources of the dialect). We will also identify and work on the various storytelling tropes of film noir as well as hallmark movements and mannerisms of the genre. The class will culminate in a full-length improvised play for an invited audience, based on the style of film noir.
Instructor: Rebecca Castelli holds a BA in voice and theatre and an MFA in acting. She won a Seattle Times Footlight Award for The Pirates of Penzance and appeared with Tony Award-winner Judy Kaye in Gypsy at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. In the Bay Area, she has performed with Shotgun Players, Cinnabar Theater, and Porchlight Theatre Company, where she starred in Three Sisters and An Ideal Husband. A sought-after voice teacher, Rebecca has taught at Berkeley Rep, VoiceOne, and her private studio. She is also a founding member of Oakland’s improv group The Incidentalists and a voiceover artist signed with JE Talent.
- Thu 7–9:30pm
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12
$365
