Post by aden on Mar 12, 2013 20:16:11 GMT -6
Improv Singing Refresher Course: Just the basics!
(1.5 hours)
Brush up on your improv song structures (or learn how to make up songs for the first time!) This playful workshop will refresh your abilities to create simple repetitive choruses, detailed verses and playful bridges. We will review some of the most commonly used song structures and ways of sharing songs with your scene partners. We will also polish up some basic emotional heightening, conducting and song ending skills so that your songs fit seamlessly inside the scenes in which they live!
Advanced Improv Singing: Lyrics that Matter.
(2 hours)
Take your improvised song making up several notches with this lyrical workshop. We will explore several techniques that are sure to give you more tools and choices to take make your songs memorable. With poetry, storytelling, non-verbal tools and more, you'll learn effective ways to sing powerful solo songs, duets and group numbers. Get ready, you'll be sure to have a song in your heart when you're done!
About the teacher:
With nearly thirty years of experience on stage, Aden Kirschner has been winning awards and recognition as a speaker, singer and performer since she was six years old.
Though originally from Ashland, Oregon, she currently resides in Austin, Texas where she is a fixture in the improv community and is frequently sought out to play with multiple theater companies--including world famous vaudeville revue: Esther's Follies, where she spent the majority of 2011 wearing huge wigs, singing big songs and getting massive laughs. She can be seen performing most regularly at Austin’s premier theater venue the ZACH, with Merlin Works faculty troupe, the Known Wizards; or with B. Iden Payne Award winners, Girls Girls Girls Improvised Musical Comedy.
Aden joined the Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation faculty in 2009 where her improv scene and improv singing performance classes are in high demand. As a teacher, Aden seeks to create a fun, safe environment where people can explore and grow new practical skills to help them on stage, in business and in their private life. Learn more about Aden at wwwadenkirschner.com..
(1.5 hours)
Brush up on your improv song structures (or learn how to make up songs for the first time!) This playful workshop will refresh your abilities to create simple repetitive choruses, detailed verses and playful bridges. We will review some of the most commonly used song structures and ways of sharing songs with your scene partners. We will also polish up some basic emotional heightening, conducting and song ending skills so that your songs fit seamlessly inside the scenes in which they live!
Advanced Improv Singing: Lyrics that Matter.
(2 hours)
Take your improvised song making up several notches with this lyrical workshop. We will explore several techniques that are sure to give you more tools and choices to take make your songs memorable. With poetry, storytelling, non-verbal tools and more, you'll learn effective ways to sing powerful solo songs, duets and group numbers. Get ready, you'll be sure to have a song in your heart when you're done!
About the teacher:
With nearly thirty years of experience on stage, Aden Kirschner has been winning awards and recognition as a speaker, singer and performer since she was six years old.
Though originally from Ashland, Oregon, she currently resides in Austin, Texas where she is a fixture in the improv community and is frequently sought out to play with multiple theater companies--including world famous vaudeville revue: Esther's Follies, where she spent the majority of 2011 wearing huge wigs, singing big songs and getting massive laughs. She can be seen performing most regularly at Austin’s premier theater venue the ZACH, with Merlin Works faculty troupe, the Known Wizards; or with B. Iden Payne Award winners, Girls Girls Girls Improvised Musical Comedy.
Aden joined the Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation faculty in 2009 where her improv scene and improv singing performance classes are in high demand. As a teacher, Aden seeks to create a fun, safe environment where people can explore and grow new practical skills to help them on stage, in business and in their private life. Learn more about Aden at wwwadenkirschner.com..