What
you get...
• Orientation and social the day before your session
begins
• At least 28 hours of improv training with some of the
best coaches in the world
• Customizable class schedule
• Two tickets to any show during the BATS Summer Improv Festival
•
Daily continental breakfast
• Free bottled water
• Morning movement class (Improv Intensive only)
• One of San Francisco's best views of the Golden Gate Bridge
(it's right outside the theater!)
• Summer Session T-Shirt
• Discounts for early and multiple class registrations
• A whole lot of new friends!
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Improv
Intensive
Class #: 1019
Date: Thursday - Sunday, August 14–17
Time: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Orientation: 5:30 - 6:45 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 13
Tuition: $449 by June 1; $499 after June 1
Class size: 36 students maximum; individual classes
are 12 students
Prerequisite: None
Coaches: Tim
Orr, Rafe Chase, Lisa Rowland, Zoe Galvez, Kasey Klemm, Dave
Dennison, John Remak, Barbara Scott, Joshua Brody, Paul Killam,
William Hall, Gerri Lawlor, and Diane Rachel
A four-day, full immersion improv excursion. Customize your
class schedule with 12-person workshops such as improv tools,
character, story, mask, and singing. Explore character, story,
performance games, secrets, and more.
You will start each day with an improv movement workout, then
jump right in to your customized class schedule with 12-person
workshops. Lunchtimes will feature Learning Cafes with topics
such as "Forming Your Own Troupe" and "Improv Off The Stage."
The program will be loaded with opportunities to share your
thoughts and questions with coaches and other players. Designed
for beginning to intermediate improvisers with separate tracks
for both. Includes 28 hours of instruction.
*Pay for two four-day summer intensives and get $50 off your
second intensive.
Click here for full descriptions and schedule of classes
Quotes from previous participants:
• Getting deeper into the improv experience filled my artist
soul.
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I learned a lot about myself while having a great time.
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I really like all the positive energy!
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Improv is not just for the clever, the talented, and the ‘experienced'
people. Improv is for everyone, and BATS makes it so.
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Drunken revelry without the booze.
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Fears were addressed and kicked to the curb.
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The theory is taught through doing."
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It's great even if you've never acted before in your life.
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It's been so freeing being here. Thank you!
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This was my fourth time at Improv Intensive and it won't be
my last.
Four-Day Keith Johnstonian Intensive
Class #: 1020
Date: Thursday - Sunday, August 21–24
Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Orientation: 5:30 - 6:45 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 20
Tuition: TBD
Class size: 24 students maximum; breakout classes are
12 students
Prerequisite: None
Coaches: Rebecca Stockley, William Hall
Spend
four days with William Hall and Rebecca Stockley, BATS Company
players who have worked with Keith for over 20 years. Work
with them, and other guest BATS coaches, while you explore
Keith's revolutionary ideas about theater, comedy, storytelling
and imagination. Topics include story, status, spontaneity,
acting, and comedy (but each day is influenced by student
interests, so bring your questions.) This intensive is open
to improvisers of all experience levels. 24 hours of total
instruction.
Click here for full descriptions and schedules of classes.
Long-Form
Intensive
Class
#: 1021
Date: Thursday–Sunday, August 28–31
Time: 9am–6pm
Orientation: 5:30–6:30pm, Wednesday, August 27
Tuition: $449 by June 1; $499 after June 1
Class size: 14 students maximum
Prerequisite: Some improv performance experience required
Coaches: Tim
Orr, Gerri Lawlor, Rafe Chase, Regina Saisi, Zoe Galvez
Welcome
to Long-Form Summer Intensive 2008—The best, most in-depth
and quality Long-Form education that 4 days can offer. BATS
Long-Form training focuses on the core elements that make
San Francisco-style Long-Form successful. Explore BATS Improv's
unique style of sustained, improvised narratives while working
with master coaches on professional vocal and physical stage
techniques.
This
intensive program of Long-Form improv performance training
is for improvisers with previous performing experience who
want to step up to the next level.
Lunchtime Learning Cafe topics will include "Developing Long-Form
Formats " and "Researching Genres." Includes 32 hours of instruction.
(Limit 14 students)
Curriculum
developed by Tim Orr.
Click here for full descriptions and schedule of classes.
*Pay for two four-day summer intensives and get $50 off your
second intensive.
Quotes from previous participants:
•
We've taken classes in San Diego,
LA, Chicago from some very well
known people, but these truly were the best teachers I've
ever encountered.
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Great experience and vacation…my spirit and energy
has been higher than it's been in the past year.
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Taking BATS Long-Form Program offers you training with the
best.
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Transformational
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Very inexpensively priced relative to the value received.
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I view the world differently now…A new journey has
just begun.
For the complete schedule of classes, go to the calendar.
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