Classes

Feb 16th/23rd March 2nd & 9th 5:30-8pm ($100)

Limited Space Small Class Size

Public Speaking Confidence

Join our 4-week course to become a Confident Public Speaker.

We’ll play fun improv games to help you:
-- Feel confident and comfortable speaking in front of any crowd
-- Think on your feet and handle unexpected questions with ease
-- Engage and inspire your audience by expressing your authentic self

The workshop will be customized based on the specific areas you want to improve.
Whether that’s giving presentations, sales pitches, motivating your team, speaking up in meetings, job interviews, or talking to a large crowd.

Improv Salon Initiations w/ Asa Erlendson

Sunday March 23, 30th and April 6th 1-3pm

This three-part workshop on Initiations will look at the starts of scenes through multiple lenses, ranging from the interpersonal to the physical and spatial as well as the verbal. The second part will continue the work of the first, but it will primarily focus on initiating premises. Fun! Suitable for beginners or advanced players who want to revisit a fundamental aspect of a scene: the start.

Now with an extra day!

Improv Salon: Developing Show Ideas ($60)

April 13th/20th/27th 1-3pm

Facilitators: Alice Gillette and Bryan Richard Martin

Learn some new techniques to take your ideas to a level all your own! In this workshop, you’ll learn how to find new ideas for your creative projects by engaging in curious, inquiry-based activities with others. We'll dive into various methods for brainstorming and polishing ideas into something you can showcase. Join us to improve your creative process and collaborate on your projects with fellow participants.

This workshop can be helpful to you if:

• You're making something and feeling stuck.

• You’re all out of ideas and wondering how to come up with new ones.

• You’d like to bring new layers of experience to your performances by incorporating elements like light and sound.

In this workshop, we’re going to take our serious artistic ideas and turn them into fun and playful possibilities as performers. You’ll brainstorm ideas in class with the help of your facilitators, who will guide you in transforming those ideas into silly “problems”. After that, you’ll explore structured methods or fun games to find creative and whimsical solutions to these challenges. 

This process might look different each time: sometimes, the facilitators will give live direction for your performance while your classmates watch as the audience, and other times, you’ll participate in guided group discussions about the “problems” you’re facing.

By the end of this class, you can expect to gain:

• New ways to generate ideas for your work.

• A workshopped 1-5 minute work-in-progress piece.

• Skills in both giving and receiving constructive, artistic feedback. 

Collaborating with others is a powerful way to gain deeper insights into yourself. Your next great idea is already within you, just waiting for the perfect moment to emerge. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to uncover your creative ideas in a collaborative environment, allowing you to develop them into works-in-progress alongside a supportive community of fellow artists.

Bryan Richard Martin is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. He’s collaborated with the Los Angeles Unified School District, 826LA, The Getty Museum, Washington DC Public Schools, AmeriCorps and FIRST® on interdisciplinary education projects fusing arts, literacy, and science. Locally, Bryan’s created live scores and compositions for Denver’s Idiot Theatre clown show, and light and sound design for Tutzanni Theatre Company. Bryan’s work has been featured in outlets such as Rolling Stone, Vice, and NPR. 

Alice Gillette is a clown, writer, and performance artist known for her “startling yet goofy” performances, as coined by Denver Westword. If you’re not busy on the first Sunday of (any) month, you should join Alice as she hosts Uncanny Valley, a free clown jam in Denver, Colorado.

Improvised Rapping with Megan Miles

Sunday April 27th & May 4th 1-3pm

At Choas Bloom Theater 70 S Broadway

Join Megan8Miles for 2 hours of Freestyle Fun! Explore basic rhyming techniques, storytelling, finding the beat, rap battling and more! Whether it's your first time on the mic, or your 50th...this workshop will challenge your rap skills, build confidence, and most importantly...allow you to have fun!

About the Instructor: Megan8Miles has been freestyle rapping since 2011. She co-created Denver's Original Hip Hop Improv Team SuperBaby. She performed in her first rap battle in 2012, and went on to compete in an additional 10 battles. In 2016, she moved to New York where she studied improv and sketch comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade. Megan was also an original graduate of Freestyle Love Supreme Academy (A Hip Hop Improv School Co-Created by Lin Manuel of Hamilton). 

In the Spring of 2024, Megan competed in Denver's "Who Got The Juice" Freestyle Rap Battle, which was judged by Charlie Clips (Wild N' Out) and SuperNatural (Godfather of Freestyle Rap). 

In the Fall of 2024, She was also a contestant in Denver's $5280 Body Bag Battle competition.

The Arc of the Scene May 11th & May 18th 1-2pm with Ian Gibbs ($40)
Build it, build it, build it, pop! Time to edit. Once we have the scene foundation we use pattern, heightening, raising the stakes and making discoveries to transform the scene completely. When we get to it, the characters and world experience a day like no other day. This breaking of tension often brings laughter and moves us onto the next scene. Open to all levels of experience.