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On behalf of Expert Village, this is Paul Zuckerman with the cast of Chicago City Limits
here in New York City, and today we're going to you some techniques for improvisational
comedy. Good character actors are always looking for new characters. One way to do it is to
observe people. They're all over. There's lots of characters out in the world. Find
a couple of observable characteristics and incorporate them into your character. In this
scene, Linda is going to play an older dancer that she saw. There's 2 characters that she
noticed. One is that kind of turkey neck that was going on, and the other is this poor dancer
probably had better days in the past. Let's see how that turns into a character. Hello,
thank you for having me. It's really an honor Mrs. Costeslav. I've been an admirer of you
for so long. Can I get you a glass of water? Are you thirsty? Oh, no, no, no. Dancers are
never thirsty. We retain water. Not in a bad sense though. Oh, when I danced in the Bolshoi,
the oldish Bolshoi. Yes, yes I remember I was looking at microfiche in the library researching
your early career, and I saw that you danced the part of the swan. Not like today, we were
real swans. We had feathers.