Chase the Ball - A Workshop with PGraph

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Chase the Ball - A Workshop with PGraph

Learn to control the audience’s focus by becoming deliberate with your own. You will experience a series of exercises designed to hone your attention and heighten your awareness of yourself, the scene, and your ensemble as a whole. From two-person scenes to huge group scenes, you’ll know exactly what’s happening with every person on stage.

Put another way: Think of the focus of a scene as a physical ball of glowing energy. If you're talking about something that's happening elsewhere, that's where the ball is. If you're discussing a past or future event, the ball has warped through time and is now there. So what do you do in a scene if the ball gets away from you? You either coax it back in, or you chase it. A completely unique approach to viewing an improv scene as developed by PGraph’s Roy Janik.

About The Instructors

Parallelogramophonograph (Kareem Badr, Kaci Beeler, Roy Janik, and Valerie Ward) has been performing together for over 20 years and 1500 shows (and counting!). Fiercely dedicated to the craft and art of improvised theatre, PGraph has held a weekly show in Austin since 2006. Intrigued by the challenge of telling fantastic, fully-improvised stories together as an ensemble, PGraph spent years developing original formats and studying scripted theatre, improv, and storytelling. They've toured the country and the world performing and teaching their unique brand of improv with ensemble appearances in over 65 cities in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and the UK.

Renowned for their theatricality, playfulness, and hive-mind-like ensemble, their goal with every show is to push both themselves and the art of improvisation to new and dizzying heights while taking the audience along for a joyous ride.

PGraph regularly performs at The Hideout Theatre in Austin, Texas. Their book on narrative improv, "Do It Now", is for sale on their website (http://www.pgraph.com) as well as digitally on Amazon.

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