Take your scene work to the next level and let's get ready for the stage! Learn how to create a strong foundation for a show, and a strategy to develop ideas for scenes, find the fun, and heighten it with your scene partner.  In this class you’ll dive deeper into the Kickstand Improv philosophy and start thinking critically about improv, all while learning new techniques to make rich and collaborative comedy.

We’ll dig deeper into “why” things are funny to us, how to develop and heighten comedic ideas as a team, and build trust and connection with your classmates on and off stage

Kickstand's BIPOC improv track is currently a free / pay what you will affinity class through Level 3. After that, students pay full price (or apply for a scholarship) for Level 4, 5 & for Advanced Study in our general program, where students can learn and apply their skills to different formats. Each week of class builds on the previous one, and each Level builds on the Level before.

*Level 3 includes 6 weeks of instruction with 2.5 hours of instruction each week and a class show!

INSTRUCTOR: Nicholle Ortiz
DAY / TIME: Sundays 2:00 - 4:30 PM (2.5 hours)
DATE RANGE: 6 weeks. 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22. 11/29
CLASS SHOW: Sun 12/6 7 PM
LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214  (ADA accessible)
PREREQUISITE: Level 2 at Kickstand or teaching experience elsewhere

ABOUT NICHOLLE ORTIZ
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Nicholle’s love language is silliness. In improv she’s found a space to be silly, channel her inner child and play with others. She believes comedy and improv aren’t just about performing, they actually help us be better participants in life. If you can be an active listener on stage, you can be an active listener for your partner. If you can communicate your needs in a scene then you can communicate your needs to your coworkers. And if you can see the humor in the mundane, life becomes a little more magical.

While new to improv, she has been performing in some way or another for most of her life. From fighting to be The Angel of the Lord at 4 years old in a church play, to acting in a Sex and the City/Seinfeld crossover backyard play, she now regularly performs with her BIPOC improv groups “Brown Sugar” and “The Jessicas” on stages across Portland.

When Nicholle is not at Kickstand or doing improv, she’s probably at a bar with friends, an art market, thrifting or watching 80’s movies with her partner and cats.

ALL SALES ARE FINAL, AND NO REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR OUR CLASSES   

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Thanks again for your interest in classes at Kickstand! We cannot wait to meet you!