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Dramasports
Mind-Body-Emotion-Intution
Training
for
Performance Training
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MORE INFO: info@dramasports.org
Improv Performance Training
What does it cover?
This training is GEARED TOWARD PERFORMANCE.
The primary objective of this intensive training is to
learn the rules of Improv, ensemble DRAMASPORTS
Improv performance, character development, and
what is funny and what is not through learning
theater games, group exercises, mask work,
spontaneity exercises, structured narrative
building, scene work, and LEARNING HOW TO WORK
THROUGH YOUR BODY.
The focus is to learn practical tools and develop
new skills. Participants will appear in a showcase.
We are providing a safe, supportive, and affordable
learning place for interested actors. All workshop
participants will be evaluated at the conclusion of
the training and maybe invited to join
DRAMASPORTS Improv Troupe.
We will continue offering effective and affordable
rates for all serious-minded aspiring and
experienced actors.
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WHAT YOU WILL COME AWAY WITH
..Learning narrative building skills and a usable
Improv technique
¨ Create interesting characters using your body
¨ Mind-body preparation for the demanding industry
¨ Discovering mind-body connection and your comic
timing
¨ Skills which serve as a foundation to your acting
¨ Knowledge of how to trust yourself in auditions
Space is limited to 18 actors.
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Fees:
Special Rate:
Training: $150 for two days intensive training
* SAG
members $100
Space is limited to 16 participants
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Teacher-Director
Al
Razavi is DRAMASPORTS Artistic Director and the
founder of Imagination Unlimited Group. He has been
teaching, acting, and directing for over twenty years. He is
a two-time recipient of the Partnership for Excellence
grant from California
colleges for creating performance
training programs. His learning-by-doing approach to
training makes his workshops very effective and fun. He
provides a safe and challenging experiential learning
environment for workshop participants and encourages
them to take risks and find out for themselves the
dynamics of human interactions. He has presented
innovative workshops at national and international
conferences including Screen Actors Guild
Conservatory/Hollywood, NASAGA, Magnet Schools of
America, and International
Schools of Performing
Arts,
The California Theater Education Association, and Actors.
Al believes actors build a strong acting foundation and
confidence when they act out what they learn before live
audiences. Actors consistently rate him as one of the best
acting teachers in their experience. He has studied acting
with award-winning and internationally known directors
including Keith Johnstone, Don Richardson, and Nina
Wise. Additionally, he has worked with master director-
teachers at UCLA’s Professional Studies in the
Entertainment Industry Program. He holds two graduate
degrees in the areas of performing arts and creative
writing. He has taught acting and directing at different
levels across the country. Currently, he conducts acting
for Film/TV and improvisation Performance Workshops in
Los Angeles and the Inland Empire and
coaches privately.
He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
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What
do workshop participants say about
Al Razavi
I
have taken several Improv classes and have never learned so
much about myself and Improv in such a short amount of time.
This class is very informative and the teacher was
wonderful.
Andie
Artino, Actor
Member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
SAG Conservatory Evaluation – Hollywood, CA
Thanks for a superb improvisational workshop! You opened
my
eyes, ears, brain and heart to new listening techniques and
innovative communications skills. Your ability to meet the
needs
of all students and to give them performance confidence is a
testimony to your excellence as an instructor and director.
Corinne Williams, Workshop Participant Long Beach (CA)
Theater is the only art form that imitates life and deals
with real
life issues. Mr. Razavi’s invaluable training provides
students
with an opportunity to develop creativity, self- expression,
and
performance and communication skills far above anything
offered in the past. In this unique workshop, all teachers
take on
the roles of students and participate in every activity, and
so they
feel and learn step-by-step how each activity works. This
tremendously helps teachers to learn the entire process and
encourage them to enthusiastically take the learned tools to
their classrooms.
Karen Robertson Marietta Valley Unified School District
Instruction
and Staff Development Coordinator
Thank you for the terrific experience! …Having
worked fifteen
years in corporate, I have been to every workshop or seminar
you can fathom. In the Improv workshop, being a part of the
information by participating, brought a new dimension to the
learning process. I found that I retained more information
than
other seminar types, and my listening skills have improved
greatly…I discovered new joy in being with people. I
look forward
meeting my clients and they are no longer just part of my
agenda.
Carmen Cozby, Millennium Productions, California
…I was looking for a way to extend my knowledge and
gain more
experience. Mr. Razavi fit the bill perfectly. The result
was
immediate and effective: not only was my drama teaching
enhanced, but also my academic classes were injected with
new life and energy. The concepts taught in his acting
workshops apply not only to performance but to many aspects
of
working with people as well. I would wholeheartedly
recommend
his acting and communication training workshop for any
educator, and any professional. As an educator who teaches
in a
culturally and ethnically heterogeneous school, I was
impressed
how sensitively, encouragingly, and carpingly Mr. Razavi
insisted
on involving all his students, coming from diverse
socioeconomic, ethnic, age, and cultural backgrounds, in
workshop activities and theater productions. I have observed
closely how effectively his teaching style and innovative
Dramasports Improv theater formats consistently created
learning environments for participating students. His
improvisational acting training and writing programs with
ongoing successful shows in the region are truly unique and
one
of a kind.
Art Liberman, Teacher, Hamilton
High School,
Hemet Unified School
District, California
…Al has been very innovative in developing
effective classes for
our community. Program evaluations have been outstanding,
and
members of Riverside
Community College
management team
still comment on a presentation Al made two years ago.
Cyndi Pardee, Riverside
Community College,
Community College Supervisor
Mr. Razavi’s teacher-in-service workshops in the
areas of
teaching performing arts, organizing school-based
DRAMASPORTS theater troupes and improv-based creative
writing are truly unique. His teacher and student friendly
workshops and teaching materials are not only useful in a
visual
and performing arts setting, but can also easily utilized in
conjunction with the core curriculum, as well as Gifted and
Talented and at Risk programs.
Suzanne Linden, Moreno Valley Unified School District,
Academy of
the Arts, Site Administrator and Coordinator
Thank you for your participation again this year as a
workshop
presenter in the Temecula Valley International Film
Festival's
Workshop Series on Film making. You've played a pivotal role
in
making the workshop series the success that it has become.
Thank you for your support from the very beginning!
Jean Clement, Workshop
Series Chair
Temecula Valley
International Film Festival
This seminar was incredibly helpful. I'll be able to use
the very
complete and helpful booklets as a student and as a teacher.
I
will be using these simple techniques to help my students
produce creative works of their own.
Cindy Smith, Conference Participant and Coordinator
Educational Theater Association, California
I found this class very exciting. It helped me throw away
the
nervous side of me, and bring out the comedy and inventions
in
my head. It has been a great stepping stone as I build my
way
towards an acting career.
James McLean, Workshop
Participant
Temecula Valley
International Film Festival
I really enjoyed your workshop. You have a great ability
for being
so naturally human. It was my first Improv experience ever
and I
hope not the last one.
Marie Kothera, Workshop Participant, Temecula, California
...a great experience... You gave people a chance to find
out who
they are, and for that you are commendable. Mike Gilroy,
Participant Improvisational Comedy Workshop, Murrieta ...it
was
so exciting that I wanted to keep going. Why do we have to
go
home without each other?
Mary C. Brown, Workshop Participant, Murrieta, California
…Excellent instructor! High energy, enthusiastic,
knowledgeable,
well spoken,
very encouraging and positive.
Mt. San Jacinto College, California Student actor
evaluation
…this instructor is the most gifted teacher
I’ve ever had.
Mt. San Jacinto College - California Student actor
evaluation
….Students have awarded Mr. Razavi high numerical
ratings on
their college-administered evaluations of his teaching, and
they
have also written to congratulate Mr. Razavi on his
exemplary
teaching. Any program or institution privileged enough to
benefit
from Mr. Razavi’s combination of expertise, training,
and
personal qualities will indeed be fortunate.
Bea Ganim, Ph.D. Dean of Instruction, Academic Programs
San
Jacinto Community College Menifee
Valley Campus, CA
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