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Music Improv

With Dave Asher

This class is good for anyone from the beginner who doesn’t feel comfortable singing to the expert who loves to sing. If your goal is to improve, you will. Exercises cover the range from group sonic explorations to solo songs, from rhyming choruses and choreography to truth in comedy with music. The focus is on applying the basic long form tools of agreement and group mind to the realm of music. This is a very organic connection. Finding the games of things, making patterns, keeping a rhythm, and supporting your teammate’s moves are essential to good improv and become even more relevant when the stakes are heightened to the point that music becomes necessary. Finding the truth in a moment brings even more rewards. There will be a performance night at the end of the eight-week session

When: Fridays, beginning June 28th 6:00pm – 8:00 pm
Where: iO Annex 3rd Beat Room
How much: $175.00
How many: 18 maximum

Personal Feedback and Scenework Intensive

With Lyndsay Hailey

Want more direct notes and personal feedback? Feel like you have bad habits you want to be called out on? This workshop will focus on giving students the personal feedback they need to get more from their scene work. Students will leave this workshop with a better understanding of who they are on stage – for better or for worse.

Lyndsay has written, produced and directed a number of sketch shows at iO, most notably 30% Chance of Hailey, 40% Chance of Hailey, and The Lyndsay Hailey Variety Hour. The Chicago Reader named 30% Chance of Hailey Critic’s Choice in 2009, calling the show “one of the best, most inventive solo productions in years.” Lyndsay recently retired from The Second City National Touring Company and has since produced The Lyndsay Hailey Variety Hour at The Second City’s UP Comedy Club. She produces the occasional youtube video with her production company, Chance of Hailey Productions. Check out Lyndsay’s website www.chanceofhailey.com or her youtube channel www.youtube.com/chanceofhailey. You can catch her improvising at iO in The Deltones, Deliverance, and the Del Forms

When: Saturday, June 1st 6:00pm – 8:00 pm
Where: iO Annex 3rd Beat Room
How much: $50.00
How many: 10 maximum

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