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Level Four: Senior Project - La Ronde

Level Four: Senior Project - La Ronde with Rick Andrews

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Check below to see the full schedule for each session, see if your class skips a week for a holiday, and check out the date and time of your class show(s).

Class Description

It all comes back. The La Ronde is a longform centered around a circle of characters and the ways their world?s connect. Students will work on fostering connectivity between players and establishing strong grounded characters to create some powerfully funny scenes. To complement this circular form, students will be learning and performing, ?in the round," with the performers in the center, and the audience arranged around them. Everyone's connected. It all comes back.

The eight class sessions are followed by a four week run of shows, giving students an enhanced opportunity to learn by doing, over time, in front of a real audience. Prerequisite: Magnet Level Three

Instructor: Rick Andrews

Rick Andrews is a teacher and performer at The Magnet Theater, and has been studying, performing, and teaching improvisation since 1999. He began improvising with Improv Boston, and continued with a stint in Saint Louis, MO. He has been fortunate to learn from many improv greats, including Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman, Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Will Luera, Jill Bernard, and more.

Rick has taught workshops at improv festivals across the country, including the Boston Improv Festival, Baltimore Improv Festival, Black Box Atlanta, and many more. He co-produces Duofest, an annual festival of improv duos in Philly, PA. He has taught improvisation to people as old as 75 and as young as 6, and has done workshops for production companies and zoos alike.

He enjoys running, putting words on pages, thinking about the brain, and he loves improv more than anything.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

  1. Jan 12, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  2. Jan 19, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  3. Jan 26, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  4. Feb 2, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  5. Feb 9, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  6. Feb 16, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  7. Feb 23, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  8. Mar 1, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)

Show Schedule*

  1. Feb 29, 2020, 6:00 PM
    at Magnet Studio Theater
    (22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A)
  2. Mar 7, 2020, 9:00 PM
    at Magnet Studio Theater
    (22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A)
  3. Mar 16, 2020, 6:00 PM
    at Magnet Studio Theater
    (22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A)
    4. *scheduling subject to change