Prerequisites: none. Recommended: either improv 101 OR some music performance experience
In just one weekend, you’ll learn all the major concepts you need to successfully perform on a musical improv team: song structure, musicality, improv content, scene-into-song, and a narrative format (Fairy Tale).
Showcase Performance
You and your classmates will put on a showcase performance for friends and family to come cheer you on, Sunday evening after class, 7-8pm.
Schedule
Friday Dec 12, 6:30-9:30pm
- 6:30-9:30pm evening class (3h)
Saturday Dec 13, 10am-5pm (with breaks)
- 10am-1pm morning class (3h)
- 1pm-2pm lunch break (1h)
- 2pm-5pm afternoon class (3h)
Sunday Dec 14, 10am-8pm (with breaks)
- 10am-1pm morning class (3h)
- 1pm-2pm lunch break (1h)
- 2pm-5pm afternoon class (3h)
- 5pm-6pm evening break (1h)
- 6pm-7pm warmup for showcase (1h)
- 7pm-8pm showcase performance (1h)
About your instructors:
Alexa and Casey have been teaching musical improv together for many years with the nonprofit Baltimore Musical Improv. They make improvised musicals together in the Baltimore-based musical improv group Bad Karaoke Experience (BKE) and The Tritones. In a given show, you’ll see them both alternating between singing on stage and doing back-line instrumental accompaniment. BKE has played in DC's Improvapolooza, the New York City Musical Improv Festival, and the Baltimore Improv Festival (BIG). The Tritones have performed at Countdown Improv Festival.
Casey is a long-time teacher, including: musical improv, dancing, web development, and technical skills. Casey can play Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance on at least 15 instruments — and he owns an instrument in every color of the rainbow. Imagine someone walking down the street singing, dancing, and blowing bubbles - that’s Casey!
Alexa is an improviser, stand up comic, coach, and secondary Spanish teacher. In 2018 she conceptualized Ready Set No, a DARE style improv show. She has a popular TikTok account with 30 thousand followers, and over one million likes. She can also read tarot, and sometimes still finds time to play The Sims 4.
About Highwire Improv:
Highwire Improv is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization based in Baltimore, Maryland. Our mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice — in Baltimore and around the world — through improvisational theater.
