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Improv Classes

Course Description:
Improvisation (improv for short) is a form of theater in which the actors perform spontaneously. Improvisers often use audience suggestions to create a full performance containing dialogue, plot and setting. Businesses use improvisation workshops to learn how to develop, build and understand relationships.

Improv can teach you how to read an audience, tell a story and use body language to best effect. Improv skills can help you sustain grace under pressure, improve effective communication, take intelligent risks and problem solve in the moment. Improv teaches negotiating with respect, making positive flexible choices and listening in proactive ways.

Session and Class Structure:
Classes will meet once a week for a 4-week session to build upon improvisational skills.

Minimum: 8 students  Maximum: 30 students

About the Instructor:
Cincinnati area native Missy Whitis has taught public and private school music and drama for more than 15 years. She holds a BME from Eastern Kentucky University and has taught in schools from the coal mining hills of eastern Kentucky to Kissimmee, Fla., where she served as music supervisor for the International Baccalaureate program. Whitis is a four-time honoree in Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers, and has been recognized in Who’s Who Among American Professional Women.Whitis has directed, choreographed, and produced numerous shows for schools, community, and professional theatres. Many of her former students are studying acting and musical theatre in some of the nation’s top university programs, with one currently in the Broadway cast of Rent..   Whitis recently was awarded several top Ohio Community Theater Association honors as the vocal director of the regional premiere of Rent, as well as the regional premiere of The Light In The Piazza. She has directed and written musical arrangements for vocal groups that have opened for Michael Buble and Jessica Simpson, and is a much sought after vocal and audition coach.

Whitis, however, is best known as an Improvisation instructor, coach and innovator. Her schedule is filled with invitations to speak at schools, churches, civic organizations, conferences, and on television and the radio. She is a two-time cancer survivor and Fast Company magazine has ranked her in the top two percent of influential people on the Web.

For more information and to register visit http://www.theartsconnect.us/159/1809/Improv-Classes.