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intro to movement improvisation
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This two-hour workshop is designed to deepen students’ access to physicality as a core tool for other forms of improvisation, including scenic and musical. Through the developing activities, students across experience levels are invited to explore movement as a primary engine for creativity and embodied stage and ensemble presence. This workshop centers on the body: how physical choices generate humor, clarity, and unexpected discoveries. Using a combination of improv games and prompts adapted entirely to movement-based work, students will strengthen their ability to lead with physical impulse, expand their expressive range, and build confidence playing boldly without relying on dialogue.
Open to students who are taking or have completed HVC’s Improv 1. No movement or dance background required. Mixed experience levels are encouraged; exercises scale naturally to meet students where they are and allow more advanced improvisers to deepen precision and range.
Open to students who are taking or have completed HVC’s Improv 1. No movement or dance background required. Mixed experience levels are encouraged; exercises scale naturally to meet students where they are and allow more advanced improvisers to deepen precision and range.
About Your Teacher: Judith Garfinkel is a people developer who spent 25 years of her early life preparing a career as a ballet dancer. Her performing background includes engagements with The Feld Ballet (opening the Joyce Theater), the National Ballet of Israel, the Eglevsky Ballet, and more recently with Indah Walsh Dance, and Heidi Latsky Dance, a NYC-based physically inclusive dance company.
Before becoming a certified trauma-informed and ICF credentialed career and life coach, Judy taught ballet to students at Sarah Lawrence College and The New Ballet School (now Ballet Tech), the company dancers at the Feld Ballet, Chen & Dancers, elite gymnasts, and the performers of the Big Apple Circus. She developed and taught an improvisation-based, integrated, and developmental movement/dance curriculum for The Mead School and then transitioned into Professional Development for Educators.
Judy currently teaches dance improv at the Moving Arts Collective in Greenwich CT (which just might be the longest running dance improv class in the US at 60 years!) and through Groovment, in West Hartford. In addition to her coaching certifications, Judy has a master’s degree in Holistic Thinking and Learning and a BS in Dance and Education. She is certified in Focusing, a body-oriented self-listening framework, the Language of Dance TM (LOD), Brain Gym ® and is a trained Pilates Instructor.
Before becoming a certified trauma-informed and ICF credentialed career and life coach, Judy taught ballet to students at Sarah Lawrence College and The New Ballet School (now Ballet Tech), the company dancers at the Feld Ballet, Chen & Dancers, elite gymnasts, and the performers of the Big Apple Circus. She developed and taught an improvisation-based, integrated, and developmental movement/dance curriculum for The Mead School and then transitioned into Professional Development for Educators.
Judy currently teaches dance improv at the Moving Arts Collective in Greenwich CT (which just might be the longest running dance improv class in the US at 60 years!) and through Groovment, in West Hartford. In addition to her coaching certifications, Judy has a master’s degree in Holistic Thinking and Learning and a BS in Dance and Education. She is certified in Focusing, a body-oriented self-listening framework, the Language of Dance TM (LOD), Brain Gym ® and is a trained Pilates Instructor.
Small but Important Details!
*Please note that once you make your purchase, your place in the class is NON-REFUNDABLE
unless we have 48 hours notice before first class AND we can get someone to fill your spot.
*Students must be 18+ years. (In actual years, not maturity. ;)
*Our classes involve physical activity, and we could be on our feet for at least an hour.
If that's an issue, please let your instructor know how we can accommodate the class to fit your needs.
Please email us with any questions about accommodations for ability.
Masks are not required but they are always welcome. Please click here for more detailed info about our COVID-19 policies.
*Please note that once you make your purchase, your place in the class is NON-REFUNDABLE
unless we have 48 hours notice before first class AND we can get someone to fill your spot.
*Students must be 18+ years. (In actual years, not maturity. ;)
*Our classes involve physical activity, and we could be on our feet for at least an hour.
If that's an issue, please let your instructor know how we can accommodate the class to fit your needs.
Please email us with any questions about accommodations for ability.
Masks are not required but they are always welcome. Please click here for more detailed info about our COVID-19 policies.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
The Happier Valley Comedy School admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.
The Happier Valley Comedy School admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.
