Does your audience care about your story? If you stopped performing, would anyone yell “WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!!????” When an audience member says they remember a story you created years ago and tells you the details of the characters and outcomes, isn’t that more rewarding than performing filler that is forgotten before the show is over?
Making the story relatable and engaging doesn’t have to be boring and distant. We share universal stories that connect us. The stories are funny and vulnerable. They are exciting and silly. You can build a strange character or unbelievable location and still tell the story that embeds itself in the memory of your audience because it comes from the reality we all experience.
Class Schedule:
Tue 15 April 7:30pm-10:30pm
Thur 17 April 7:30pm-10:30pm
Sat 19 April 7:30pm-10:30pm
About Shawn Kinley
For almost four decades Shawn has been asked to teach in 54 countries using Improvisation theory in Science, the Arts, Business and numerous other fields. Memorable visits include Universities in Oxford and Cambridge, a roofless rehearsal building in Peru, the National Theatre of Iceland, Norway’s National Opera, a Favela in Brazil, palaces in Germany, circuses in Poland and Colombia.
Shawn’s home base is Canada which he is rarely in. He works with people in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australasia and Africa 9 months of the year.
Broadly speaking, Shawn teaches workshops and performs. He is passionate about the education process, how we think and engage each other on and off stage.
More specifically Shawn engages performers, businesses people, health care professionals, education experts, scientists, toy-makers, dancers, psychologists and even the military in various forms of improvisation and movement to make their world a little better.
Shawn’s work has impact in education, group dynamics, awareness in human behaviour and creativity to name just a few.
For more info please contact workshops@courtyardplayhouse.com or 058 520 6303
Does your audience care about your story? If you stopped performing, would anyone yell “WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!!????” When an audience member says they remember a story you created years ago and tells you the details of the characters and outcomes, isn’t that more rewarding than performing filler that is forgotten before the show is over?
Making the story relatable and engaging doesn’t have to be boring and distant. We share universal stories that connect us. The stories are funny and vulnerable. They are exciting and silly. You can build a strange character or unbelievable location and still tell the story that embeds itself in the memory of your audience because it comes from the reality we all experience.
Class Schedule:
Tue 15 April 7:30pm-10:30pm
Thur 17 April 7:30pm-10:30pm
Sat 19 April 7:30pm-10:30pm
About Shawn Kinley
For almost four decades Shawn has been asked to teach in 54 countries using Improvisation theory in Science, the Arts, Business and numerous other fields. Memorable visits include Universities in Oxford and Cambridge, a roofless rehearsal building in Peru, the National Theatre of Iceland, Norway’s National Opera, a Favela in Brazil, palaces in Germany, circuses in Poland and Colombia.
Shawn’s home base is Canada which he is rarely in. He works with people in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australasia and Africa 9 months of the year.
Broadly speaking, Shawn teaches workshops and performs. He is passionate about the education process, how we think and engage each other on and off stage.
More specifically Shawn engages performers, businesses people, health care professionals, education experts, scientists, toy-makers, dancers, psychologists and even the military in various forms of improvisation and movement to make their world a little better.
Shawn’s work has impact in education, group dynamics, awareness in human behaviour and creativity to name just a few.
KHDA licensed Performing Arts
Training Centre
Home to Theatresports Dubai
The Courtyard Building
Al Quoz 1, Dubai, UAE
