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In this Episode, Michael Lutton and Justin D. Torres do their Megan Pasta form which is essentially talking about someone who isn't there. In this case, Michael and Justin talk about Bronson McClaine an old teacher who had a profoundly negative affect on both of their lives.
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In this episode, Alex Kornfeld from Dance Factory joins Justin D. Torres on the podcast. In their scene, Alex is returning to his family home after searching for himself within the indigenous community, meanwhile his brother is renovating his house as a form of spite. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Justin D. Torres and Ellie Barrickman, formerly of Wet Denim, take on the tactic of stalling the scene for a bit then free for all fun after. What happens is an extremely fun scene about naming children that goes down a dark but fun path. Enjoy!
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In this Episode, Justin D. Torres and Chris Bell, director of Musical Megawatt at the Magnet Theatre, take on a character scene with some matching where they really only try and juggle one idea beyond the initial fun. If you're a character improviser, take a listen. There are some really solid strategies for the character players. ENJOY!
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In their second scene, Rajyashree Sen and Justin D. Torres take on the A Section B Section tactic for the scene. Rajy ends up being a startup boss who has a drinking problem. Enjoy
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In this episode, Dennis Pacheco and Justin D. Torres attempt a very simple exercise of grounding into making a move that's weird and utilizing that as the main driver to affect the scene. Simple though hard to do, really has some amazing fun results.
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In this episode, Davonte Smith, improviser on Dance Factory and Horse Girl and creator of the Block Party show, talks with Justin D. Torres about improv, group scenes, and takes on a really fun grounded scene that stays grounded and ends crazy fun. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Justin D. Torres does a scene with veteran improviser, Steve Whyte. They've been on multiple teams together over the last decade and their comfort with each other causes a relatively blue scene in the most fun way. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Justin D. Torres improvises with Sanket Rane. Former teammates on Janet, Sanket and Justin fail an attempt at a challenge but in the process have a pretty awesome scene where a rich father has to explain to his daughter why he's sending her away to her Aunt's farm. Enjoy!
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Brent Williams, member of Dance Party and former member of Horse Girl and Lil Spoon, joins Justin D. Torres on the podcast. They take on one of the most hardest initiations out there. Enjoy!
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Michael Lutton, artistic director of the Magnet Theatre, joins Justin D. Torres and they take on the dreaded presentational start to a scene. Enjoy!
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Ellie Barrickman is an amazing improviser formerly of Wet Denim. In this episode, she improvises a scene with Justin where they play with questions. The scene also breaks the rule of being strangers. However, with some grounding and earnest playing, it turns out to be a really fun scene. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Justin D. Torres talks to Chris Bell, artistic director of Musical Megawatt, about grounding. Often improvisers, later in their training years, find the need to do grounded work. Justin and Chris talk out some strategies on how to get to grounded work quicker but still keep the discovery aspect of improv. They talk about how to ground scenes without initiating a grounded scene. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Justin D. Torres talks with Rajyashree Sen about her improv journey and how she's feeling a bit stuck in improv. Rajy is on Behemoth at the Magnet and is an emotional force. She often gets big laughs all the time through emotional reactions. In this scene, Justin and Rajy hold back pushing those emotions and see how far they can go with it. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Justin D. Torres has Dennis Pacheco (The Music Industry, Janet, The Armando Diaz Experience) on to do a full scene where we start with questions. By starting with agreement, even by breaking the rules, discovery, fun, and surprising scene work can happen!
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In our first episode, Justin D. Torres talks about when he realized that most longform stagnates within the first few minutes of forms. In his quest for improv discovery, he created Improv4Improv to be able truly improvise with improvisers.
