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Increasingly Unreproducible Acts with Adam Smith | 6-Week Class + 2 Student Shows - Fall Edition
Increasingly Unreproducible Acts with Adam Smith
Build Chance & If/Thens into Your Work
6-Week Class + 2 Student Shows
Date: Sunday, October 12 to Sunday, November 23
Time: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Two Student Shows on Monday, November 23 from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at The Glendale Room
12 spots
Location: The Glendale Room
127 Artsakh Ave, Glendale, CA 91206
Details:
Increasingly Unreproducible Acts
(Build Chance & If/Thens into Your Work)
Create a performance that’s different every time (on purpose). “Increasingly Unreproducible Acts” helps you build a foundation of bringing chance into your creative process and performance to script something that will be uniquely different every time.
Each week brings fresh prompts, ensemble work, and creative challenges designed to push boundaries and spark innovation. You'll weave together personal stories, task-based techniques, improvisation skills, and current events to build a short piece that includes an element of the unreproducible.
Will you let fate be decided by the roll of a six-sided die? Will the audience choose their own adventure? Will you allow yourself to fail gloriously?
After 6-weeks of exploration, you will perform your piece (solo or ensemble) twice for a live audience.
This is a sandbox to safely take creative risks. Good for clowns, directors, writers, devisers, improvisers, performance artists, and anyone who doesn’t feel like they fit into a clear category.
Throughout the workshop, you'll
Learn practical tactics for blending spontaneity with structured performance
Develop systems of controlled chaos and intentional variability
Create work that can evolve and change from performance to performance
If you agree with any of the following then this is for you
My creative roadmap is more like a straight line
I feel like all of my creative mining has put me into a pit of despair
I’m too comfortable on-stage and I want a greater risk of failure
I want audiences to compare notes about what they saw or didn’t get to see at my shows
I use the word “ephemeral” a lot; I read Choose Your Own Adventure books; I have a Mad Libs book somewhere on my bookshelf; I saw and loved Julia Masli’s “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha”; I’ve played the Stanley Parable; I watched Bandersnatch three or more times; I like flowcharts and decision trees; sometimes I drive without maps and I’m currently in Arizona by accident, please start without me, I’ll be there soon.
Experience Level
While there’s no prerequisite, participants should have some experience creating, directing and/or performing their own original work.
Schedule:
Session 1 - Sunday, October 12 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 2 - Sunday, October 19 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 3 - Sunday, October 26 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
OFF SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Session 4 - Sunday, November 9 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 5 - Sunday, November 16 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 6 - Sunday, November 23 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Class Shows: There will be (2) back-to-back class shows on Monday, November 23 at The Glendale Room - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Bio:
Adam Smith is a Los Angeles-based, award-winning writer, director and performer. His work has been charted as "Low Brow/Brilliant" by New York Magazine's Approval Matrix. Together with Arletta Anderson, he devises work that's sometimes theatre, sometimes dance, usually in-between. His interactive theatre experiment, Play about a Woman, has toured the US and can be seen at the Lyric Hyperion, February 2nd at 5:30pm.
He has taught writing, devised theatre techniques and creative process for over 10 years in San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond.
Adam is a former member of the New York Neo-Futurist collective and was the founding artistic director of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, most known for their long-running show The Infinite Wrench (fka Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind), an ongoing, everchanging attempt to perform thirty original plays in an hour.
Refund Policy:
***No refunds 72 hours prior to class***
Please contact training center director, Fernando A. Funes, at fernandoafunes@yahoo.com with any questions.
Increasingly Unreproducible Acts with Adam Smith
Build Chance & If/Thens into Your Work
6-Week Class + 2 Student Shows
Date: Sunday, October 12 to Sunday, November 23
Time: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Two Student Shows on Monday, November 23 from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at The Glendale Room
12 spots
Location: The Glendale Room
127 Artsakh Ave, Glendale, CA 91206
Details:
Increasingly Unreproducible Acts
(Build Chance & If/Thens into Your Work)
Create a performance that’s different every time (on purpose). “Increasingly Unreproducible Acts” helps you build a foundation of bringing chance into your creative process and performance to script something that will be uniquely different every time.
Each week brings fresh prompts, ensemble work, and creative challenges designed to push boundaries and spark innovation. You'll weave together personal stories, task-based techniques, improvisation skills, and current events to build a short piece that includes an element of the unreproducible.
Will you let fate be decided by the roll of a six-sided die? Will the audience choose their own adventure? Will you allow yourself to fail gloriously?
After 6-weeks of exploration, you will perform your piece (solo or ensemble) twice for a live audience.
This is a sandbox to safely take creative risks. Good for clowns, directors, writers, devisers, improvisers, performance artists, and anyone who doesn’t feel like they fit into a clear category.
Throughout the workshop, you'll
Learn practical tactics for blending spontaneity with structured performance
Develop systems of controlled chaos and intentional variability
Create work that can evolve and change from performance to performance
If you agree with any of the following then this is for you
My creative roadmap is more like a straight line
I feel like all of my creative mining has put me into a pit of despair
I’m too comfortable on-stage and I want a greater risk of failure
I want audiences to compare notes about what they saw or didn’t get to see at my shows
I use the word “ephemeral” a lot; I read Choose Your Own Adventure books; I have a Mad Libs book somewhere on my bookshelf; I saw and loved Julia Masli’s “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha”; I’ve played the Stanley Parable; I watched Bandersnatch three or more times; I like flowcharts and decision trees; sometimes I drive without maps and I’m currently in Arizona by accident, please start without me, I’ll be there soon.
Experience Level
While there’s no prerequisite, participants should have some experience creating, directing and/or performing their own original work.
Schedule:
Session 1 - Sunday, October 12 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 2 - Sunday, October 19 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 3 - Sunday, October 26 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
OFF SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Session 4 - Sunday, November 9 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 5 - Sunday, November 16 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Session 6 - Sunday, November 23 - 10:00am to 1:00pm at The Glendale Room
Class Shows: There will be (2) back-to-back class shows on Monday, November 23 at The Glendale Room - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Bio:
Adam Smith is a Los Angeles-based, award-winning writer, director and performer. His work has been charted as "Low Brow/Brilliant" by New York Magazine's Approval Matrix. Together with Arletta Anderson, he devises work that's sometimes theatre, sometimes dance, usually in-between. His interactive theatre experiment, Play about a Woman, has toured the US and can be seen at the Lyric Hyperion, February 2nd at 5:30pm.
He has taught writing, devised theatre techniques and creative process for over 10 years in San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond.
Adam is a former member of the New York Neo-Futurist collective and was the founding artistic director of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, most known for their long-running show The Infinite Wrench (fka Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind), an ongoing, everchanging attempt to perform thirty original plays in an hour.
Refund Policy:
***No refunds 72 hours prior to class***
Please contact training center director, Fernando A. Funes, at fernandoafunes@yahoo.com with any questions.