Tonight's the Night -- for something Else (No Class!) (Anymore!)

Hi everybody, just a quick reminder that there's no THursday Drop-In tonight, or any other Thursday for the knowable future.

I'll really miss you guys, and the chance to work with new and returning students every week.

BUT!!! Drop-Ins are good, and useful! The Pit knows this. So they're preserving the Friday night, and Saturday & Sunday afternoon Drop-Ins on an ongoing basis, for you guys.

Full info here: http://www.thepit-nyc.com/dropins2.html



Fridays will always be "Scenework" with Ashley Ward, 7-10.



Saturdays will always be "The Workout" - the class designed to your order every week, with Pete LePage, 3-6.





Sundays will alternate between Short Form with Justin Zell and Long Form with Brett Wean, 3-6. See the PIT drop-ins page for the exact schedule & who's teaching Sunday this week.


I was asked to also teach Sundays so it would be a 3-man rotation, but I work Sunday days at my jobby-job, so no dice.

I'll really miss you guys. Thanks so much for coming and putting so much of yourself into the work every week. Thursday Drop-In really wasn't a class that you could come in and half-ass, and none of you did. Thank you for that.

These 7 classes are an absolute highlight of my year, and my improv career so far. Thank you.

Come see my PIT house team, Punch, any and every Wednesday night at 9:00, for free at the PIT.

And feel free to drop me a line with your questions, thoughts, pictures of birds of prey, or restaurant recommendations.

With Thursday nights freed up again, I'll be available to coach improv teams again, too, and would be happy to work with any of you.

Any more plugs to cram in?. . . I guess not. I can always edit more in later. Hooray!

Keep playing from your gut; keep stepping out on stage with nothing in your head. Everytime you do, an angel gets a free sub sandwich.

Thanks again.

Your pal,
Geoff

Tonight's the Night

Tonight's the night, dear friends. Tonight we begin the Pit's Thursday night Drop-In Class: Playing from the Gut.

I couldn't be more excited.

The way I approach improv is with a hierarchy of trust that values the impulses of instinct and emotion over the thoughts of the mind. I trust my subconscious more than my conscious mind.

I believe that every good move of improv should be learned, then practiced until it becomes a habit. The habit, maintained, becomes a reflex. And the reflex, allowed to act over time, becomes instinct. And once good moves are loaded in, "dropped down" as some people say, you can truly get out of your head once show time comes, and let your guts, your instincts, your intuition lead you.

What this boils down to for our workshop is that we're going to practice good improv behavior, but even more so we're going to practice letting loose and letting fly. Abandoning concern and caution and seeing what happens when we get out there and get loose. Timidity is a wonderful trait to portray in a character once in while. But in an improviser, it's to be eliminated.

We will also, fear not, cover all the good stuff that we all should be practicing as improvisers. Commitment, decisiveness, object work, status, editing technique, silence, surprise.

But more than anything else, this class is about the joys (and delightful terrors) of plunging in.

I hope you'll join us, and, having joined us, will return. It's going to be fun as balls.

Your pal,
Geoff