Improvising musically can be both the most freeing and most heady of pursuits. This workshop focuses on getting into connection with yourself, your body and your partner and pushes you to see how you can get where you're going without thinking so damn much(or at all?!.) What happens when you follow your physical impulse? The emotion? Your FIRST gut reaction? The simplest thing or The SPARK in your partner's eye?! We'll lightly hit structure to let it go and trust that our brain will catch up. Regulate, Connect, Create. Repeat.

Instructor: Anděl Sudik is a director, improviser, actor and writer based in L.A. and Chicago known for her explosive energy onstage and in the classroom as well as her experiential teaching style. As an actor/writer she is an alum of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, the Second City Touring Company and the Jeff Award award winning Second City ETC revue “We’re All in this Room Together.” She has also produced countless successful two-man shows as Arch&Anděl (The Public House, Annoyance, OoB Festival) and improvisational experiences(Obits, a theatrical experience exploring the lives of those that have passed) as well as directed in Chicago at Second City, iO and the Annoyance. She is a faculty member of the Second City Training Center programs (A-E, Conservatory, Health and Wellness, Advanced and Teen/Youth programs) taught iO summer intensives and has taught her workshops and performed all over the states as well as across Europe and New Zealand in festivals and privately. Anděl’s deep well of performance experience and her hands on, in depth work within the disciplines of long form improvisation, short form, sketch and theater make her a thoroughly well-rounded and open minded conduit for art, creation, polish and playfulness. She values time efficiency, and recognizes that the most powerful thing we bring to the table is us. Whatever we are.