Breakthrough Improv Performance Theater for everyone Starting January 2012 Free orientation session: Saturday, January 7, from 6 to 8:30pm Location: IUG Acting Studio, Menifee Tel: 951 445 9158 Email: info@dramasports.org Enrollment is limited to 14 participants. Please reserve your place by calling or sending an email A life changing adventure, culminating in a performance before a live audience. If you have a burning desire to perform we have the tools you need A weekend intensive performance training workshop-limited to 14 participants. Reserve your place. Free Orientation Day: Saturday, January. 7, 6 to 8:30pm Training days: Friday, January 13, from 6-9pm, Saturday, January 14, from 11am-5:30pm, Sunday, Jan. 15, from 11am- 5pm Final show: TBA (To Be Announced) a three-day weekend adventure into self-discovery and authentic expression. An opportunity to be seen as the talented, creative, magnificent being that you are. A safe, supportive space to unleash your creative side. Ignite your aliveness and increase your confidence in real-world communications and public speaking. As the weekend escalates and deepens, the Breakthrough Improv Performance gives you, the participant, an opportunity to step into greater freedom and permission, culminating in the exhilaration of appearing before a selected live audience and presenting structured improvised scenes and stories on stage with your partners. This shared creativity is a safe environment where you playfully will take risks and go over and beyond your comfort zone and expand your self image. We sink or swim together!

Acting for Film and Televison Workshops Youth 12-17 Adults 18 and up Classes will start in January 2012 Location: IUG Acting Studio, Menifee Small classes-enrollment is limited to 12 actor students. Admission will be based on interview. Workshop is limited to 12 student actors For more information and scheduling an interview contact us: Tel: 951 445 9158 Email: info@dramasports.org Experience is the reality! This hands-on training will focus on helping actors to build a strong foundation and learn experientially how to use practical tools and techniques in creating interesting and believable characters as well as analyzing scenes. Actors will learn the principles of  Feredrick M. Alexander Technique, Sanford Meisner's Technique, and Michael Chekhov's Technique in relation to character development and developing authentic acting style. The training will also teach actors how to successfully integrate the physical with psychological components involved in creating mesmerizing characters and powerful scenes.  The workshop is designed to help actors hone their craft through building new skills as they learn how to apply the learned techniques to build a strong foundation in relation to scene preparation, scene analysis, and on-camera acting. WHAT YOU WILL COME AWAY WITH • Master a usable technique that can be systematically applied to solve your acting problems • Develop on-camera acting skills • Learn how to use your body to create new characters • Learn how to break down and analyze a scene • Learn how to emotionally prepare for a scene - being truthful and emotionally connected • Learn how to use improvisation theater technique in preparing a scene • Develop your unique acting style / comic timing • Learn how to perform a psycho-physical tune up as well as preparedness in acting • Learn skills which will serve as a foundation for your acting • Learn how to trust yourself in auditions • Develop acting confidence Typical class activities in every session: • Physical and vocal warm-up • Cold reading, scene analysis, and scene work • Learning principles of Chekhov's technique • Learning principles of the F. M. Alexander Technique. • Learning Vipassana meditation technique • Improvisation: Mind-body-intuition training • On-camera solo and dual scene work • Audition technique So to sum it up: 1. Classes are intensive, with a 4-week minimum commitment-with four sessions per week 2. Classes are 4 hours long 3. There will be class-generated projects/presentations, either on film or on stage 4. Regular attendance is very important. Actors are expected to arrive on time and participate in all training activities/group presentations