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Feel your scenes blossom. Be focused. Certain. Mindful. Free of thought. Bloom. I'm returning to Seattle with my refreshing, invigorating and impassioned improv teaching style. This weekend workshop will focus on noticing the “everything,” maintaining points-of-view, working with positive choices, collaborating on a “deep tissue” level, and effortlessly evolving your scenes. The workshop weekend will be followed by my joining the weekend cast in a performance showcasing the cast’s skills.

Stay tuned…it’s coming! If you’d like to be put on the “No Obligation Information List,” please email me.

David Razowsky is an actor, teacher, and director in Improvisational Acting based out of Los Angeles. He is an alum of The Second City, and was in the cast that included Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Amy Sedaris, just to name a few. He was the Artistic Director of The Second City Los Angeles for nine years, and is the host of the podcast ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky and Ian Foley.

Love and the Art of Improvisation

Love In the Art of Improvisation

Lovin' the Art of Improvisation

A screed on the joy of being alive.

The muscles you use in improvisation are the same muscles you use when you’re falling in love with a new love.  Or rekindling a love from the woods of the past.

You’re emotionally affected when your partner’s near you.

You’re emotionally affected when they’re not near you.

You’re emotionally affected when they’re talking to you.

You’re emotionally affected when they’re not talking to you.

You’re emotionally affected when they’re talking to someone else.

You’re emotionally affected when they’re not talking to someone else.

You’re emotionally affected when they say your name. 

You’re emotionally affected when they don’t say your name.

You’re emotionally affected when they say someone else’s name.

You’re emotionally affected when you hear their name.

You’re emotionally affected when they touch you.

You’re emotionally affected when they don’t touch you.

You’re emotionally affected when they touch someone else.

You’re emotionally affected when they touch you and someone else.

What they say affects you.

What they don’t say affects you.

Their tone affects you.

Their volume affects you.

Their clothes affect you.

Every word affects you.

Every movement affects you.

Everything about them affects you.

Everything affects you.

Everything.

Someone recently asked me which of our teachers, Martin deMaat or Don DePollo said, “It’s your scene partner’s birthday.” (We think it was Martin, by the way.) Yeah, today’s a special day for a special person. A special person who matters to you, someone you want to make sure is happy, someone for whom you want to “make sure things work out,” someone who you care about as often as anyone is capable of caring for someone else. 

When you and I are on stage together I SEE you. I see you in all that you are doing. I see you in all movement and sound and fury and stillness. You are an “emotional delivery system” for me. You affect me, and you don’t have to do anything but be. 

Just “be.”

Celebrate your stillness. Rejoice in your awareness of your movement. Kvell (a Latin word, right?) in your mindfulness of that gesture you’re now engaged in. Honor your alertness to all that you are doing. Attach no ego, no judgment, no rules to that magnificent awake-ness of your being, of your present-ness to “the there.”

You are an actor improvising. You are a character embodied by an artist who is making shit up on the spot, in response to that wonderful artist with you on that stage. That wonderful artist whom you love, whose birthday it is, whose every movement inspires you, who you can’t keep your eyes off of, especially your inner eyes that peer out from your heart, that’s driven by your gut, that’s celebrating the applause that you think you hear, but it’s really an increase in your heartbeat and not because you’re nervous or anxious or worried or thinking, but because you’re in love.

“Be” in love. That love doesn’t have to show on the outside, but make sure it’s alive, alert and activated on the inside. Every day’s not only your birthday. It’s also your very own Valentine’s Day.