Anne Bassen


Anne Bassen is a Choreographer, Dancer, and Improv Theater teacher who
lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her Improv classes are informed by her aesthetics
and training in Post Modern Dance, Contact Improv, Expressive Arts
Therapy, and being an Improviser in Dance, Theater and music. She is a
renegade teacher in NY, only teaching her own classes, a unique blend of
Movement and Theater Improv not associated with any of the “big Improv
schools.” She also has taught The Viewpoints in NYC and Europe. She
currently teaches at The Borough of Manhattan Community College,
Parsons School of Design, her own independent classes and other places.
She has taught Workshops in Vienna and Krems, Austria as well as Warsaw,
Poland and other cities in the USA.

All Sessions by Anne Bassen

  • Saturday.

    February 2, 2019

  • 14:00  - 17:00
    Imagine a scene between an angry bird and a depressed CEO trying to repair a copy machine together, and this is the start of imagining the whimsical and hilarious nature of Interspecies Improv. I start with Movement Improv structures and techniques ranging from Post Modern Dance aesthetics, to Laban’s qualities of movement, to simply leading explorations of the infinite ways our Bodies can make shapes and move in order to break the boundaries of what could be identified as pedestrian, Human movement. I use imagery also asking the class to move as birds, dogs, clouds, a pencil, a CEO etc. Infinite possibilities arise. Then the fun begins after we physically create these characters, give them side coaching with emotions, or accents or whatever, and put them in scenes together. The scenes are always fresh, touching, hilarious and more.
    Cost: € 40
    workshop
    afternoon
    intermediate (1-3 years)
    Where
    Compagnietheater



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