WORKSHOPS

DEVISING IMPROV TO SKETCH! with BUSINESS CASUAL

This workshop will cover how to use tenants of clowning in your improv. With exercises in freeing movement and thought, connection with the audience and connection with your stage partners. Business Casual will also share their approach to devising written sketches through improvised characters and scenes. The trio, who has been working together for almost a decade, will share their approach to collaboration and group devising that’s helped them create hours and hours of material. We encourage comedy partners and ensembles to take this class together so that we can take advantage of connections that have already been created!

Business Casual is a comedy best friendship composed of Hunter Saling, Jeremy Elder and Cory Peter Lane. The trio has been featured at JFL's Moontower Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, NY Comedy Festival (where they were featured on a special line up of up and coming digital creators), The Edinburgh Fringe where they were named the Scotsman's Comedy Critics Pick. They've also been featured at the Netflix is a Joke Festival. They've created commissioned content for Funny or Die and Stapleview. They are regularly featured on Chris Gethards new live show "That Show"

bad dancing with andie flores

Bad Dancing is an open group ecstatic dance session that encourages participants to lean all the way into cringe. In an exploration of embarrassment as process, Andie Flores leads Bad Dancing, two hours of dancing for cringe, dancing for social disaster, dancing for sweet clown freedom, all set to a diverse music selection. Join us as we dance alone together in an open space. All welcome, no experience required.

ANDIE FLORES (b. 1990) (she/her) is a performance artist in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making.