IMPROV like your LIFE depends on it!

WHAT IS CHALLENGING IMPROV?!

Challenging Improv is a robust blend of Performance Improv principles and techniques, UN-Art, and, most especially... YOU.  Your passions, experiences, and weird quirks.  Challenging Improv acknowledges that Improv can be many things, including its own pure, raw, philosophical beingness, but it can also mix with YOU and your ART and WORK and LIFE beingness to become something that can make YOU and YOUR work and YOUR life Beautiful !

CHALLENGING IMPROV began in a classroom.  Kids wanted to do Improv like on "Whose Line..."  I had a little experience in a Comedy Sportz franchise.  We learned all the games and read Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone and Del Close.  Then we accidently mixed in some comic books, summer movies, and bad pulp novels.  THEN... we very deliberately added some old Alternative Theatre legends like Bertoldt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, and especially Vsevolod Meyerhold.  Over twenty years or so, we wound up with a VERY PHYSICAL, VERY THEATRICAL, VERY ENSEMBLE-ORIENTED brand of Performance Improv.  We became the CHALLENGERS OF THE IMPROV-SSIBLE and CHALLENGING IMPROV was born.