Playing Honest with The Reckoning’s Jet Eveleth!
This is a two-week workshop, meeting Monday, June 7th and June 14th, 7pm -10pm for $60.
Having a difficult time playing clever? Try playing real. Let go of feeling robotic on stage and speaking in unnatural tones. Instead of playing a fairly convincing human, be a human. Take out the effort and play what you feel.
This workshop will focus on being truthful to your internal experience on stage. We will utilize emotional information in the breath and eyes of the performer to work from a deeper place. We will also explore ways of bringing more of yourself to the stage. With such work we can connect to the audience’s humanity rather than just their intellect.
You will use techniques that focus on:
-Playing from an unforced place.
-Breaking the habit of over-thinking and indicating.
-Connecting to your scene partner from a place that is real.
Biography
Jet Eveleth is a member of The Reckoning and recently toured in I Live Next Door To Horses, winner of the 2008 Del Award for Best Scripted Show. She can also be seen in Ted & Melanie, Pleasant Valley and The Armando Diaz Experience. She received her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College and is an instructor at Columbia’s Comedy Studies Program. Jet is a faculty member of The Second City Conservatory, the iO Theater and is the artistic director for the Chicago Improv Festival.
“The improvised arts are created in and of the moment. If you are lucky enough to witness it, you have inspired it. The work cannot be preserved and therefore is often beyond categorization. However the forces that live in an improvised moment is inspiration at its finest. That realization of energy potential is improv’s greatest gift to the artistic world.”
Responses from participants:
“The whole workshop made me feel like TRUST (in yourself and in your team) was key. And it also made me really feel more comfortable with my body. I’ve had a total epiphany from the workshop that has moved beyond just improvisation and into how I’m living right now.”
-Merlin Works
“…is exactly what I was looking for.”
-Jennifer Ducharme
“Eveleth emphasized that improv was about choices, and gave some Zen-like insight.”
-Michael Waterson