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Upcoming Specialty Classes
April 2008
Series-Musical Intensive-Advanced– Class #1004-SOLD OUT, Please call for Waitlist
This class is for experienced musical advisors only. Joshua Raul Brody and Barbra Scott will help you intensify emotional grounding in songs and draw on cues from the characters and scenes in which the songs arise. You will do some more in-depth ear training and music theory, and look into some of the more advanced techniques explored by improv group Tonal Chaos, including conduction, improvised fugues, and "medium-form" improvisations. Coaches will also address particular concerns that students bring to class. This is not a remedial class; students looking to reinforce basic skills should enroll in the previous intensive.
Date: Thursdays, April
3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 7-10 pm (12 hours total)
Requirements: Foundation 2 and above
Coach: J. Raoul Brody& Barbara Scott
Tuition: $200
What The Scene Needs – Class #1026
This class was very popular back in the 90s - and it has been refreshed! Pay attention to the realities of the scene and explore a fresh approach: Intention. With LOADS of scene work this class builds on your current skills.
Date: Sunday, April 27
Time: 11am-2pm (3 hours total)
Requirements: Performance 2 and above
Coach: Rebecca Stockley
Tuition: $40
Listening On and Off Stage #1027
This class explores the art of listening, both in our lives as improvisers and as off-stage civilians. How can improvisers best “play” the role of a good listener? How can we as people actually become great listeners? Quality listening benefits both you and your performing partners, increasing the depth of your “Yes, and” improviser response.
The class will look at behaviors and techniques of good listeners, and will also examine the elusive skill of stage awareness what it means, and how one’s own stage awareness can be expanded.
Date: Thursday, April 10
Time: 7-10 pm (3 hours total)
Requirements: Foundation 2 and above
Coach: Cort Worthington
Tuition: $40
Former Sunday Player and BATS Belfry member Cort Worthington took a two year improv sabbatical to study leadership development and earn MBA degrees from UC Berkeley and Columbia. He currently teaches classes in negotiation theory, and facilitates for an interpersonal dynamics leadership course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where improvisational principles are a key component. Cort claims he loves to listen.
May 2008
Master Your Micetro Mojo – Class #1039
Winners of Micetro tend to be positive, playful, confident, and real. We'll focus on scens, games, and exercises that can help you build those skills and find your Micetro Mojo.
Date: Sunday, May 4
Time: 11am-2pm (3 hours total)
Requirements: Performance 2 and above
Coach: John Remak
Tuition: $40
The Character Experience– Class #1040
Come take this class and learn how to get out of your characters way.
Date: Thursday, May 22
Time: 7-10pm (3 hours total)
Requirements: Performance 2 and above
Coach: Rich Ross
Tuition: $40
June 2008
Specialty Series - Short Form Intensive – Class #1045
Do your scenes meander from offer to offer? Do your improv games lack playfulness? This four week intensive will focus on bringing strong platforms for scenes and games. We'll work on building strong platforms for scenes, finding what a scene is about and brinigng it to a strong ending. We'll also work extensively with the basic improv games that every short-form improviser needs in their tool kit.
Date: Thursdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26
Time: 7-10pm (12 hours total)
Requirements: Performance 2 and above
Coach: Dave Dennison
Tuition: $180
Remedial Song Improv – Class #1046
Basics, basics, basics! Breathing, ear training, rhyming, counting, song structures, repetition, repetition, repetition, and maybe some games.
Date: Tuesday, June 10
Time: 7-10pm (3 hours total)
Requirements: Performance 2 and above
Coach: J.Raoul Brody
Tuition: $40
"A Scene Based On...."– Class #1047
How to create simple but satisfying scenes.
Date: Sunday, April 27
Time: 11am-2pm (3 hours total)
Requirements: Performance 2 and above
Coach: Barbara Scott
Tuition: $40
For a complete list of all classes, go to the calendar.
Specialty Class Registration Policy
Please note that the cost of specialty classes includes a $10 non-refundable deposit.If you have registered for a class and decide you want to drop that class AT LEAST FOURTEEN DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST CLASS SESSION, you may choose to receive a refund check for the amount of the class minus your non-refundable deposit OR you may choose to reapply your payment IN FULL to another BATS class. If you decide to drop the class fewer than fourteen days before the start of the class (but more than three days before the start of the class), you lose the option of reapplying your payment in full. You can either reapply your payment minus the deposit or receive a partial refund check.
If you decide to drop a class WITHIN THREE DAYS of the first class session, your payment is neither re-applicable nor refundable. (Here’s why: While we want to be flexible with changing schedules, it is unlikely we’d be able to fill an extra spot in class at the last minute, so these rules are to ensure the success of the classes.) For the same reasons, if you decide you don’t like the class halfway through, we cannot offer any partial or total refund or reapplication of payment.
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