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The best improvisers are wonderfully physical. They use their body and movement to create characters, build worlds and to inspire their scene partners.
Physicality on stage is about more than just leaping about wildly or coming on with an amusing character trait. It is about learning to trust your body and acting from a place of instinct and connection rather than relying on quick wits and cleverness.
This class will:
-Explore space work and mime in a supportive atmosphere
-Teach you how to let physicality inspired characters and stories to merge organically
-Show you how to be outrageous but still grounded and connected
-Listen deeply to your fellow scene partners so you find inspiration together
This will not be a physically tiring class and all levels and physical abilities will be supported.
This course will be taught by Anne Pensalfini, who is one of Brisbane's most skilled and experienced teachers of improvisation. She currently teaches for QUT and Queensland Theatre.
It is a prerequisite that you have completed our Level 1 class (or equivalent) before moving to Level 2. Contact us if you have any questions.
2020 DATES
Sunday afternoons
4 October to 22 November
2.00pm to 5.00pm
Paddington Play Centre
10 Moreton Street, Paddington
Full price: $250
Concession price: $190
Early bird prices available until 7 September 2020
Please note: We are monitoring the Coronavirus situation and if we are unable to go ahead with our classes a full refund will be available.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Anne Pensalfini has a diverse range of performing experience in stage, film, and commercial work. She has performed comedy improvisation and interactive theatre professionally in Minneapolis, USA, Brisbane, and at sea, on board the Disney Cruiseline. She has lived in Brisbane for 17 years where she performs and teaches improvisation for Big Fork Theatre and Impro Mafia.
Extensive training in voice, movement, Shakespeare and improv, and degrees in Theatre and Education inform Anne's teaching practice. She trained extensively with the US Shakespeare & Company, who have influenced her embodied, connected approach to Shakespeare. She spent 5 years as a Core Member of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, facilitating for the ensemble's ground-breaking Shakespeare Prison Project as well as acting, directing and teaching for the company.
Anne has led Shakespeare, Applied Theatre and improv courses for major universities including Griffith Uni and UQ and currently teaches regular courses for QUT and Queensland Theatre’s youth programs. Anne has also begun to facilitate “applied” improvisation sessions to help groups of non-performers work together more effectively and problem-solve creatively. Most recently she created a suite of exercises for a Brisbane business consulting and coaching company.