Dramatic Scenes with Joe Bill
Dramatic Scenes with Joe Bill
20 MAY 2023
with Joe Bill
ONE DAY CLASS
Improve your acting skills!
Saturday 20 May
11.00-14.00
Rue Général Leman 145
€57
Not all improvisation is rooted in Comedy being the goal. In this workshop we’ll play with repetitions in emotional honesty and the theatrical possibilities of our relationships and stories unfolding in a focused and compelling way. I’ll show you how to forward with depth and pay attention to “The Play In Between The Lines”, just like actors do in scripted scenes. Dramatic tension comes from Paying Attention to Emerging Patterns in Speech and Behavior. Listening and Responding to Emotional Content, Psychological Awareness and Point of View through Curiosity and Suspicion and a Willingness to be Changed by your scene partner. We’ll also play with recognizing the power and dynamics that lie in silence. This workshop will be valuable to improvisers of any level that are interested in improving their acting skills.
About Joe Bill
Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best teachers of Scenic, Longform, Duo Improvisation, and Improvised Storytelling in North America today. He is one of the founding members of Annoyance Theater Chicago where, for 12 years, he performed in and/or directed more than 60 different shows. He is the creator and host of Story Chain, a virtual (and now sometimes live!), 90-minute, international story sharing event that he developed in 2020 during the Pandemic. He was the Director of Corporate Training at iO Chicago for 15 years and started training and performing there in 1985. He was a Guest Artist in Residence at The Second City Training Center & Conservatory where he taught intensives in Duo Improvisation and Improvisation for Actors for 10 years. Joe is ½ of the original improvised Monoscene (we used to call it “Real Time”), BASSPROV with Mark Sutton, and has been touring all over the world teaching, directing, and improvising with several other amazing Duo Partners like Patti Stiles (Our Play), Jill Bernard (SCRAM!), Stacey Hallal (Stacey & Joe, We Slept Together) Lee White (Paradigm), David Razowsky (Razowsky & Bill) and Heather Urquart (Blues Hammer), ALL in different, original formats and styles. Joe has taught and performed on every continent on earth, except for Antarctica which remains on his bucket list.