Beginners Scene Study




main classes workshops coaching/taping rental space contact links		VOICE, BODY and IMPROV CLASS With Alan Marriott Mondays at 6:30pm This class will help actors to understand physically why voice and body is so important to not only stage work but also in front of the camera. Classes will include vocal warm ups and cold read exercises, working towards getting the words “off the page” immediately through the creative and open use of the actor’s voice and body. Following the Voice work, Alan will then segue into Improv work for the rest of the night. Improvisation is a form that is becoming more and more popular within the film & television world. It’s a tool that enhances all acting training by freeing the mind. Actors get energized, & learn to use their imagination to suddenly invent stories without any effort. In these classes, there is no pressure to be "funny" but rather, the focus is on narrative, storytelling skills & spontaneity. Comedy will be the inevitable (and hilarious) by-product. At the conclusion of any Improv training, participants feel lighter, healthier, and share good feelings towards each other. Alan cut his improv teeth with VTSL in 1980 and appeared in the original productions of two early shows, A TheatreSports Hamlet (Rosencrantz) and Suspect (creating the part of Aldous Bacon.) In 1985, Alan moved to London, England to complete his theatre training at LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) and ended up staying. Twenty three years later, after building up a highly successful career as a voice over artist (the voice of Scoop and seven other characters on Bob the Builder- US, Victor Volt the double BAFTA award-winning series The Secret Show), training practically the entire London stand up circuit in improv skills, introducing London, the National Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival to Theatresports, starting ground-breaking companies like the Impro Musical Company, Impropera (a fully improvised opera using professional opera singers), Impro Lab (London’s first improvised play), and Grand Theft Impro – London, Alan realized finally that Vancouver was just too pretty a place to stay away from. Hello Vancouver, it’s great to be back! Alan has also recently created Grand Theft Impro- North Shore and has just finished writing a book on improvisation and thinking entitled “Genius Now.” How actors benefit from Improvisation training: • are more relaxed and confident in auditions or presentations • Have the ability to create whole scenes and entertain audiences without advanced preparation. • Improvisation training enables people to be more active, spontaneous and flexible. • Their instincts are focused and are more able to think on their feet, creating new ideas effortlessly. • Learn to read any audience; heighten your public speaking skills, and improve your professional flexibility.