Rebecca MacMillan - Dear Aunty Improv...

About the Workshop
Feel stuck or have with frustrations in your improv? Wherever you are in your journey as an improviser, you’ll almost certainly have elements that you feel get in your way, or are your Achilles’ heel. The things that are frustrating, deflating, or stop you having a good time. These ‘improv problems’ will be specific to you: perhaps you stumble over ‘what happens next’ moments, find you are almost always playing the same character, get in your head about game or feel underconfident when on stage. In this class Aunty Improv will take your individual issues and together with the support of the group will play with ways to help you break through. As much as helping you to find ‘fixes’ this session aims to support you to identify your strengths and celebrate those too.

As well as a happy shiny feeling and a renewed perspective of yourself as an improviser, Aunty Improv hopes you’ll leave with a range tools and techniques to continue working on in your improv practice going forward.

This is a highly bespoke class tailored to the individuals who attend, once you have signed up we will ask you to fill in a form in advance of the class with brief details of your improv experience to date and what you’d like to work on.

Participant Experience
Open to all - This is a highly bespoke class tailored to the individuals who attend, once you have signed up we will ask you to fill in a form in advance of the class with brief details of your improv experience to date and what you’d like to work on.

About Your Teacher
Rebecca has been teaching improv for twenty years this year! Crazy! She was a co-founder of the Maydays improv school, developing and teaching their very first courses. She has helped advise other organisations on their improv education programmes including the Bristol Improv Theatre, led a huge variety of improv classes and courses online during and since the pandemic, she's a regular teacher at a couple of improv residentials, has coached a wide range of improv groups and performance companies, talk at academic conferences about the use of improv in education (specifically Shakesprov) and is growing an improv community in Gloucestershire where I now live.

Rebecca is a a nurturing and supportive teacher with a playful sparkle: here's how a few of her students recently described her teaching:

"She is patient, spontaneous, responsive to the group vibe, as well as to individuals, and she creates a safe atmosphere in which to play and experiment. She also appears to be permanently in touch with some higher power/consciousness!!"

"I love the way she holds the group throuģh her extensive experience and openness, her love of improv, great sense of fun and her consideration for each person and the group as a whole."

"Well-planned, crams in a lot each week, able to articulate activities well, smiley and encouraging, full of infectious energy and playfulness without having any off putting grandiosity or over-confidence. I look forward to it a lot and really do chuckle about some of the scenes for days or weeks after"

Details
Sunday 8th September 2024
14:00 - 17:00

This workshop venue is fully accessible and will take place at:
Squire Performing Arts Centre
Arboretum St
Nottingham
NG1 4JB