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 improv track is a five-level program followed by Advanced Study, 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: Naomi Dixon

DAY / TIME: Tuesdays 6:30 - 9 PM (2.5 hours)

DATE RANGE: 6 weeks.10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 12/1 *skip 11/24
CLASS SHOW:  Tue 12/8 8:30 PM *subject to change

LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR 97214

PREREQUISITE: Level 2 at Kickstand or teaching experience elsewhere

ABOUT NAOMI DIXON
She/Her
Naomi Dixon is an Okinawan-American comedian, writer, and teaching artist located in Portland, Oregon. Naomi has been performing improv for over ten years and has studied short and long form improv under instructors from Second City Chicago, UCB LA, World's Greatest Improv School, and Kickstand Comedy. Naomi is passionate about encouraging her students to develop their own unique comedic style and is incredibly enthusiastic about facilitating affinity spaces, most notably as an instructor for students enrolled in Kickstand’s BIPOC Comedy Program. Naomi has performed with Holy Shit! Improv (LA), Mosaic Improv (Portland), Small Fruits (Portland), & is making her international debut this spring at The London Improv Festival with homegrown indie team Ooh La La (Portland). She’s also the co-creator, co-producer, and co-host of The Astrolo-show with fellow Kickstand Comedy instructor Diana Kolsky.

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