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Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshops with lunch break
Location: TBD

Who doesn't enjoy a good tragedy? In this workshop we're going to analyze the basic structure of a tragedy, the key elements of its narrative, the main characteristics of the tragic hero, and the role of the chorus. From Oedipus to Walter White.

Teacher: Feña Ortalli

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

'When I point to the moon, do you look at the moon or at my finger?'

What stories can you tell by using your body? How do your externalise where you are? In this workshop we will explore how images and body movement can tell stories on their own without the use of words. In order to make new stories we need to put our own identity or image aside. The neutral mask is a very usefull to tool to practise this. The neutral mask is about curiosity, moving forward, being in the here and now without emotions, expectations or assumptions. Let your body tell the story.

Teacher: Karin van Pelt

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshops with lunch break
Location: TBD

We will find the balance between our abilities and the risks we take. Many times we find ourselves in a comfort zone from which we do not know how to get out.
THE STATE OF FLOW is an "optimal experience" in which we find our own pleasure and enjoyment in all our scenes.
The goal of the workshop is the search for a state of harmony and non-effort.

*Workshop based on the flow theory of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Teacher: David Moncada Varela

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

Stage combat is traditionally well rehearsed and choreographed, spending hours if not days on technique and action. In the world of improvised theatre, there are only split seconds and multiple minds working against that very essence of safety with combat. This workshop will take those techniques and create an overall language and skill foundation that can give you and your ensemble the ability to execute successful combat on stage while not executing each other. Starting with “hand to hand” style combat, we will focus on the theatricality and specificity of combat techniques in a fashion that can be repeated safely in the moment of an improvised scene. Depending on the location, tools available and skill of the participants; the advanced skills of sword/weapon based combat will also be covered.

Required: Please wear clothing that allows for full and easy movement. (if you can crawl quickly in it, it will work)

This workshop is taught by two teachers. Therefore, the pricing is slightly different from our other workshops.

Teacher: Eric Nepom Aden Nepom

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

We are onstage to "play" with our partners in every sense of the term. This workshop develops the notion of a playful relationship between actors. We will try and tease our partner by getting them in trouble and trying to destabilize them. The goal being to generate accidents and surprises that can be transformed into unexpected gifts for our creativity. All strategies are welcome when it comes to playing with mischief: say "no", ignore your partner, play in a bizarre manner… This workshop will show how your worst impro nightmares can actually be sources of inspiration that can refresh your performance.

Teacher: Mark Jane

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

Did you know that improv goes way back to the 16th century? Commedia dell'Arte is partly improvised street theatre which make use of half masks. In this workshop you will learn more about Commedia dell' Arte. What are the characteristics of mask play, physicality, comedy, characters and scene work.
If you like to play big characters, experience the magic of transformation, love physical theatre (even if your a couch patato) and comedy this workshop is for you.

Teacher: Karin van Pelt

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

You're the first person the audience sees when they take their seats. You make them feel welcome, prime their hearts and imaginations and start to generate on-stage energy for the actors to step into. The audience finds you delightful, funny or endearing, they trust you, and sit comfortably knowing they are going to be taken care of. This is the natural state of the emcee! In this workshop we'll hone your authentic onstage persona with personalised feedback and equip you with the skills you need to be the most present presenter you can be. From taking suggestions and dealing with the audience to stagecraft, you'll leave this workshop ready to command any stage and welcome any audience.

Teacher: Ella Galt

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

This immersive workshop introduces participants to the principles of site-specific performance, utilizing the city as a dynamic stage. Through improv exercises and collaborative projects, participants will explore the potential of the city and the public space as a performance landscape. They will learn key elements of site-specific performance, develop improvisational skills, and create engaging site-specific performances. Unlike traditional workshops, this one will take place in an open space with passersby and surprise locations, adding to the immersive experience.

Teacher: Ignacio Grinstein

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

A great improviser can command a room and engage the audience with both subtle and bold choices alike. In this workshop we will focus on improvising with confidence. We will run exercises and games that will promote trusting your own ideas no matter how silly simple or weird, and performing with confidence. I am a fan of honest and encouraging feedback and building a supportive space where we can work towards finding our personal swagger and charm. Together we can chip away at the lies that fear tells us in the moment and discover we are, in fact, compelling. The moment does not require one to be clever or witty, but present and fully engaged - to show up with confidence and commit. We came to see you play. Show up! You are enough!​

Teacher: Kristen Schier

Date and time: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshops
Location: TBD

Improvisers get inspiration from all sorts of places. For example, haven’t you ever watched a film and thought “Wow, I would love to play a scene like this on stage!”?
In this workshop, we will focus on bringing some of that on-screen magic to our improv. By translating filmic vocabulary onto the stage, you will explore different ways of framing, editing and moving, with some film theory peppered on top. If you’re a nerd that likes to mix up artforms, this is your jam!
An extended version of this workshop was taught as a course at Flock Theatre last spring with a showcase at Flock Festival. This is a fast paced workshop, exploring techniques through simple scenework and it’s not recommended for beginners.

Teacher: Christianna Tsigkou

Date and time: Sunday, 16 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

In improv, we are often taught to play with STATUS. High status. Low status. But status is more complex than that!
In Asia, status is a part of our daily life. Why not learn the fine nuances of relationships from Eastern cultures and add them to our scenes? For Western improvisers, this class will be an eye-opening re-take on status. Meanwhile, Eastern improvisers will laugh at how natural our lives transfer onto the stage with a few modern improv techniques.

Teacher: Aree Witoelar

Date and time: Sunday, 16 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop including lunch break
Location: TBD

With centuries of genres, classic tropes, story structures, and well written dialogue, the world of theatre has provided an art form continuously reproduced and added to. Bringing these forms to the improvised stage adds new challenges, from characters to costumes. Together we will explore the genres you are most interested in and see what makes them iconic, while keeping things fresh for the audience and performer.

This workshop is taught by two teachers. Therefore, the pricing is slightly different from our other workshops.

Teacher: Eric Nepom Aden Nepom

Date and time: Sunday, 16 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop including lunch break
Location: TBD

The study of human behavior. We will see its possibilities as a scenic tool for the construction of unique and particular relationships.
An ideal workshop for improvisers, actors or stage artists interested in expanding their toolkit through the creation of meaning with the body and space.

Teacher: David Moncada Varela

Date and time: Sunday, 16 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop including lunch break
Location: TBD

If we can tell any story. If we can create our own scenes. If we can write our dialogues. Why not take the opportunity to talk about topics that interest us?

Impro is an inherently political tool. It is disruptive, challenging, non-conformist... or at least it could be. During this workshop we will work around five different axes: Class Consciousness, Gender Perspective, Historical Memory, Neocolonialism, and Antifascism.

Through different symbolist exercises and tools, you will discover ways to put these themes on stage without falling into pamphleteering.

​Because, whether you are aware of it or not, all impro is political.

Teacher: Feña Ortalli

Date and time: Sunday, 16 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop including lunch break
Location: TBD

Emotional change as engine of the scene

We usually think of the scene as a sequence of events, but what happens when we have no more events to put in the scene, and the improvised scene "doesn’t work"? What if we focus on reacting to events instead? In this workshop, we will focus on our role as actors, on the importance of being and becoming vulnerable, open to emotional changes, making our scenes more meaningful, honest and engaging and to highlight what is truly important in the scene: abandoning our armor to discover the joy of stepping on stage without defenses.

Teacher: Fabrizio Lobello

Date and time: Sunday, 16 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Do you like to watercolor on your own? Do you get lost in Haruki Murakami's books? Do you think of Star Trek's prime directive or draw Back to the Future timelines? Do you cherish your alone time, but don’t see how this relates to improv? Quirky hobbies are excellent tools for improvisation! In this workshop, we will use your unique knowledge to create easy scenes which are human and relatable. You will be happy to share your favorite passions, and love yourself for being an introvert.

Teacher: Aree Witoelar

Date and time: Sunday, 16 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

I always dreamed about life having a soundtrack because then the world would be easier to understand. This is the power of music, to shape our understanding of events coloring them with emotions. In this workshop, we will work on physical techniques to allow you to 'dress yourself with music' and be able to use it like a second skin. Allowing the music to move you and shape the understanding of your body, your partners and everything. This workshop is about mixing music, body language and movement into a single objective, to tell stories and thrill.

Teacher: Ignacio Grinstein

Date and time: Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Find out how to use yourself and everything around you as a vehicle for pure play, and spontaneous theater.
In front of an audience we can sometimes close ourselves off. We prevent ourselves from following our joy.
Daring to be seen by the audience at every moment, will, in turn, reveal a whole world available for play.
Allowing yourself to be exposed will open you up to celebrating your own stupidity, interacting with the audience and taking more risks.
This workshop is perfect for those interested in unlocking playfulness, becoming more aware of how they are perceived by an audience, and anyone interested in clowning or developing solo work.

For participants: Please wear dark colored clothing that you can move in, without patterns or logos. No flip flops or heels please. You are welcome to go barefoot.
We will be looking at the way the body moves, so we don't want the eye drawn to or distracted by the clothing or the way you walk radically influenced by your footwear.

Teacher: Kristen Schier

Date and time: Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop with a lunch break
Location: TBD

This workshop will focus on playing grounded, real characters. We will explore how to create characters who don't just come alive for a few minutes, but feel like they lived a life before the scene started, and will continue their life when the scene ends.
It’s a workshop all about improvised acting and how we can challenge ourselves, and the trust of our scene partners, to not always take the path of least resistance. To not make choices that are only informed by our improviser training, but also let our choices be guided by our character and our inner director. We will work with playing realistic relationships, with conflicts and tension, how to use silence in scenes and holding on to our characters perspective as we train to make our character work grounded, multilayered and specific: making it real.

Teacher: Anton Romanus

Date and time: Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop with a lunch break
Location: TBD

Joseph Campbell figured out what all the stories, legends, myths, from all times and places, have in common. He put this into a recognizable structure of 12 steps, that every protagonist (Frodo/Dorothy/Achilles/you?) takes in his journey towards fulfillment of his true potential.

The beauty of this structure is that we learn to see and play a story on 2 different levels. We have the actual adventure, the actions and experiences of the protagonist. And under that we recognize and start to understand personal development, the intuitive part of storytelling and how stories have a metaforic use for understanding ourselves better.

In this workshop you will learn about the steps of the hero's journey in a playful and fantastical way! The structure, but also the bigger reason underneath and how it helps our protagonist grow. We get to know a couple of archetypes that help the story forward and you even might link it to your own hero's journey(s) in life!

Teacher: Cindy Pittens

Date and time: Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Every story needs a hero—the character who goes on a journey, overcomes
their fears, and finds a love interest on the way. Often the trope follows the
man as the hero; the woman as the love interest. Women play princesses,
mistresses, mothers, or the owner of a nail salon. Men play firefighters,
soldiers, pilots and CEOs. Unfortunately, clichéd, binary roles are still leading
to clichéd play on improv stages all over this world. But this does not have to
be the case! When we break away from stereotypes, we can perform improv
that reflects the true diversity of characters in the real world without being
beholden to such roles.
In this workshop, improvisers will learn to discover and recognize stereotypes
and find ways to play without needing to rely on them.

Teacher: Lena Breuer

Date and time: Monday, 17 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

This workshop will examine the concept of making “mistakes” while improvising. Is it even possible to make a mistake when no one knows what is supposed to happen to begin with?
if improv “mistakes” are an actual thing, is it viable to think of them as gifts, or new information waiting to be turned into a pattern? commitment to your in-the-moment discoveries and the support of your fellow improviser's choices are key concepts. Do they go out the window when you or someone else you are improvising with goofs? do you double down on your errors or do you try to “fix” them. what do you do when someone strays from an agreed-upon form, calls your character the wrong name, or brings up a taboo subject during the course of a show, or even a rehearsal? You will come away with the correct answer. Maybe.

Teacher: Kristen Schier

Date and time: Monday, 17 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Improv is rarely a solo endeavor. This workshop will focus on how you can become the best possible partner your teammates could imagine. Games and exercises showing how to listen to what your partner really wants, and turn them into a rockstar. If we’re all doing this for each other, we’re a team of rockstars and we all win!

Teacher: Jill Bernard

Date and time: Monday, 17 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

I’m not Batman. You’re not Batman. In fact, nobody sitting in this room is Batman. And we never will be.
We almost were heros is a MiniLarp about superheroes whose powers are as good as useless, which is why they all flunked out of superhero college. They meet in a support
group. What have the heroes been up to? It’s about traumatic experiences, bitterness and accepting the fact that you will never be one of the big ones. It’s about kindred spirits. About self-love. And about the most useless superpowers in the whole wide world.

Teacher: JD

Date and time: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

In this transformative workshop, improvisers will dive deep into two key elements of musical improv: the head (verses) and the heart (choruses). Using stories and experiences shared by themselves and classmates, participants will learn to craft authentic, emotionally resonant songs that connect with both the performer and the audience. The workshop builds confidence in song structure, metaphorical imagery, and even the power of silence, inspiring improvisers to create truthful and vulnerable musical moments on stage.

Teacher: Ralf Krumins - Ivories Guy

Date and time: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop, with a lunch break and a showcase the same night
Location: TBD

A new improv format inspired by the BBC TV series Ghosts and built on the bones of the popular Close Quarters format. Performers will play ghosts from various eras who have essentially been room mates for centuries as they continue to haunt the location where all of them met their end.

From an improv point of view, the form offers great opportunities. Historical characters, a single theatrical location to explore and the restriction that as the ghosts can’t touch or affect the living world - all the drama and comedy must come from their relationships with each other.

We’ll work on:
- Long term friendships and enmities
- How to play historical figures spontaneously
- Balancing relationship with world building
- Creating an open, even playful, space to deal with death theatrically on stage
- Contributing to one elegant improv narrative

This workshop has a showcase the same night at 18:45.

Teacher: Chris Mead

Date and time: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop, with a lunch break
Location: TBD

In improv, you are not only actors/actresses, but you are also the authors and directors of the scenes you play. What a blast! We are using a lot of skills such as story-telling, listening to our partners, playing genres, etc. and sometimes, we are giving a lot of energy and attention to them, and less to our role of actress/actor.
In this workshop, you will specifically work on your acting skills. We will use scripted theatre techniques so that you can go deeper in your characters’ psychology, physicality, and embody them. Living their life, feeling their emotion, in drama and in comedy moments. We will feed your improv tool-box, as you will play and naturally react as your character, acting as your character. “Acting is reacting” (Stella Adler).
You are an improviser? You are an actor/actress? Come and play!

Teacher: Peggy Pexy Green

Date and time: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Who are the people in your neighborhood? This character workshop utilizes the people in our life to create one to three characters to play authentically and grounded, with fun and abandon. We will utilize tools that guide you in not just finding the character, but embody the character physically, verbally and emotionally.

Teacher: Betse Green

Date and time: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Hip-hop has influenced everything from the radio to the TV to the big screen. It has also become part of the theatre scene as well! Learn the basics of what it takes to do improvised hip-hop from the streetz on up! We learn the fundamentals of building your rhyme catalog to putting together a cypher to going from scene into hip-hop in one dope workshop!

Teacher: Nelson Velazquez

Date and time: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Come learn about or be reminded of the improvisational mindset, and then take that wonderfully open mindset offstage and into real-world explorations.

By taking improv off the stage and into our hearts and minds, we’ll get in touch with our authentic selves, use all our senses amid a few guided prompts to possibly shift our perspectives, and engage with the festival and its surroundings in a wholly different way.

More reflective, meditative facilitated adventure than teacher-led workshop, this experience will be individual yet communal, will open you up yet also be grounding, and we hope you’ll join us for it.

This workshop is taught by two teachers. Therefore, the pricing is slightly different from our other workshops.

Teacher: Hazel Ho, Kim Tan

Date and time: Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop with lunch break
Location: TBD

Play with the vulnerabilities, shadows, and lights of your characters. -
This workshop offers a physical and sensory journey through the different layers of our characters. Through games and exercises, participants will weave acting codes and pathways of connection, allowing them to delve into the rifts within their scenes using text, body, movement, and/or voice. The goal is to pull on the thread of the revealed cracks to uncover new dimensions of our scenes and the relationships being portrayed. A reflection on the power dynamics we embody will push us to deepen our awareness of what is already present. How do we find the impulse to dive into this exploration? What happens beyond our rifts? How can we approach the intimate dimension they reveal?

Objectives:
- Reconnect with your body and discover the stakes at the heart of the play
- Become aware of and define the through-line of our scenes
- Build confidence in the power of contact and sensation

Teacher: Alice Rey

Date and time: Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Playing With Heart workshop focuses on connecting and/or reconnecting with your scene partners. You will be guided through exercises that will foster collaboration by taking a journey into a world of full of emotions and emotional stakes to create strong, grounded characters that naturally lead to compelling scene work. This workshop is designed to enhance your communication skills and find the joy in your improv by allowing yourself to be vulnerable with those you work with. By drawing strong, meaningful connections from your scene partner it will naturally take your scene work to the next level.

Teacher: Betse Green

Date and time: Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop with a lunch break
Location: TBD

ALL of us will be ALL THE TIME on the scene.
Zero bench time, zero option to tell us anything, zero time to watch
scenes instead of making them.
In impro we usually leave the space empty... can we fill it? can we be objects, landscapes, a storm... and still give the focus to the protagonists of a story? what resources of a Greek choir can we keep using today? How do we stop the chaos and calm down all together?
We will work on the choir, drawing spaces with the body, and we will find different ways besides giving and stealing focus, the schools of fish, the group invocations, the collective brain... in short, listening 2.0.

Teacher: Diego Ingold

Date and time: Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

What drives the baker to bake, the painter to paint and the hitman to hit?

Sure, it could be 'the money', but what if that is not all there is? The baker could be making bread out of spirituality, the painter could be producing new art from a sense of innovation, and the hitman could kill out of sheer playfulness. And at the same time, another hitman could kill out of justice, or kindness, or sensuality, or....

In this workshop we will zoom in on the deeper motives of our improvised characters, only to suppress them, dig them up again, let them clash with eachother and finally let them flourish in full glory!

Teacher: Jeroen Tessers

Date and time: Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Which impro rules do you strive to play by? Which improv tips do you believe in? Or not at all? Well, prepare to have your beliefs challenged. In this laboratory we will experiment and play with the rules. This investigation will help us gain understanding in the how, why and when of such rules. Nothing is true until proven!

Teacher: Ben Verhoeven

Date and time: Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Social awkwardness is all around us. There are countless moments every day where we think, feel or want certain things that we don't say or do. And why? Insert angelic choir Social rules! Many intrusive thoughts get pushed aside in our heads thoughout the day and for good reason. We live in a society. But how fun would it be if we could mess around with these thoughts and social rules on stage. In this workshop we'll discover the differences between certain belly-feels of awkwardness, and how to make smart choices as a performer to get the right kind of belly-feel to the audiences bellies. We'll explore the need of physicality and the no-need for words. We're gonna create scenes in both public spaces and family situations to make the audience go 'Ieeee, aaah, oh my God why are they doing that?!'- in a fun kind of way.

Teacher: Evy van Mazijk

Date and time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop with lunch break
Location: TBD

Want to make songs with harmonies and vocal soundscapes that inspire? Lyrics and rhymes can be impressive but we are here to sing! In this workshop, we'll explore singing and harmonising techniques to make our songs shine. Learn how to craft melodies and counterpoints, layer rhythms, find harmony organically, and combine our voices to create rich, dynamic, and beautiful sounds. From call and answer, to filling out the chord, group singing offers a world of musical possibilities - let's discover them!

This workshop is taught by two teachers. Therefore, the pricing is slightly different from our other workshops.

Teacher: Ella Galt, Joanna Kucharczyk

Date and time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop with lunch break
Location: TBD

Or how to do absolutely nothing and look good

Improvised scenes often stall because improvisers are obsessed with the responsibility of finding "the right idea." But what if the right idea is right in front of us at every moment? What if it is in our partner, in a noise from the audience, or in the color of stage floorboards? In this workshop, we will learn to shed the burden of having to be creative, to "do less" in order to highlight what is already present in the scene, to take advantage of every offer and make it interesting for ourselves, our group, and the audience.

Teacher: Fabrizio Lobello

Date and time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

As improv performers, our body is the tool, that we always have with us.
We send it (filled with ideas, words, and stories) onto the stage, we open our mouths, and dialogues, monologues, heated debates, and deep discussions emerge.
But what happens when we keep our mouths shut, rely only on our body, and decide to forget about language for a while?
In this workshop we will focus on telling stories only with the body.
We will engage in physical dialogues and try telling monologues without using any words at all. Using tools from Pantomime and Clowning techniques, we will experiment with what our bodies are physically able to do and discover what images, emotions, spaces, characters, and stories we can create.
Let's explore and try it out together!

Teacher: Anne Rab

Date and time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop with lunch break
Location: TBD

Physical workshop where we will work on physical actions and the drawing of spaces.
If we can do things instead of saying them, we will still have our voice available to talk about other things. Can we create the entire platform of a scene without talking and start using words without having to explain who we are, where we are, and what we are doing?
We will put a lot of emphasis on the fixed points and the different ways of simulating forces. Although they have the same measurement, lifting a tube with maps as an architect is not the same thing weight wise, as a worker mobilising a steel bar in a metallurgy. Raising water from a well is not the same thing as being a firefighter and having to pull with a rope a couple of tourists that got trapped at the bottom of a cave.
Our budget for scenery in improvisation theatre is infinite, and we just have to know how to manage it.

Teacher: Diego Ingold

Date and time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Participants will learn the skills and form of an improvised piece created by Jill Bernard called “Secret Monologues". Players write each other monologues before the show. Read for the first time onstage, we meet these original characters and see a scene or two in their world. The style of play is light and love and silly. This is a celebration of characters and also features nice stage pictures.

Teacher: Jill Bernard

Date and time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Support!
Support the scene!
Support makes you sexy!
Everybody knows Impro is all about support!
But... how?
No. Seriously. How?
Sometimes, we ‘feel it’, when a scene needs… something… but what?
And when? And how much? And how often?
Gah!!!
In this workshop, we’ll explore the different ways to support a scene, and learn practical skills for ensemble work, recognizing patterns, pacing, timing, and editing.
Learning to support will not only make you a better performer, it might even make you just a bit sexier...

Teacher: Jim Libby

Date and time: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

A 3 hour deep dive into status - how to read it, how to use it, and practices to build it into your muscle memory so you can unleash them on your scene partner, on your audience, and on your characters. Status is the unspoken social hierarchy that exists in every interaction, and understanding and leveraging it can greatly enhance the richness and depth of improvised scenes. We’ll use Keith Johnstone’s paradigm of status as a jumping-off point to explore it in depth; participants will explore the nuances of status, develop the ability to play with power dynamics, explore how the perceptions of self and others interact, and create compelling characters and relationships by recognising how they can affect and be affected by status. This workshop is suitable for improvisers of all levels who want to deepen their understanding and mastery of status in improvisation.

Teacher: Kim Tan

Date and time: Friday, 21 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop and a showcase on the same evening
Location: TBD

Want to create complete weirdos out of inanimate objects? Sculpt new landscapes from brown boxes and packing paper? Perhaps you just really like puppets and want to pretend you’re part of Jim Henson’s cool gang.

Puppetry allows us to do things on stage we would never do with our own bodies, take risks unavailable to the limited human physiology and physics. There's an amazing freedom in speaking through inanimate objects instead of our own voice, using simple objects in ways they were not intended.

This workshop will show you just how much fun can be had with something as simple as a toilet roll tube and some tissue paper. You will explore shared creature creation, emotions through faceless characters, and using simple objects to create beautiful & surprising scenery. It will be cute, and most certainly weird. Come play.

Teacher: Jennifer Jordan

Date and time: Friday, 21 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours
Location: TBD

Do you struggle with feeling worthy of the achievements you’ve made? Or maybe you doubt your own successes? This feeling is called Impostor Syndrome, and you can use improv to help fight it! With tools and exercises from the world of improvisation, this workshop will boost your confidence and help you find self compassion. Learn how your physicality can impact your mental state, increase your skill in dealing with the unexpected, and build trust in yourself. You just might discover you’re not an impostor after all! This workshop is for everyone, even those without improv experience.

Teacher: Katie Nixon

Date and time: Friday, 21 February 2024, 10:00 - 17:00; Saturday, 22 February 2024, 10:00 - 17:00;
Duration: 12 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

So you want to improvise a musical? Let's spend a day exploring the songs, styles, structures, and staging that real Broadway musicals employ. From repeating motifs, and split-screen parallel solo songs, to full-cast ensemble numbers, and action-fuelled montage sequences, give your shows the musical theatre sparkle. We'll practice transitions from scenes into songs, song structures and formats straight from your favourite musicals, and lean into some of our favourite musical theatre genres.

This is a higher level workshop for players with a lot of musical improv experience.

This workshop is taught by two teachers. Therefore, the pricing is slightly different from our other workshops.

Teacher: Ella Galt, Joanna Kucharczyk

Date and time: Friday, 21 February 2024, 10:00 - 17:00; Saturday, 22 February 2024, 10:00 - 17:00;
Duration: 12 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Improvisers are often afraid of “following a narrative” as they feel they will be prisoners of a structure and lose their creative freedom. Yet understanding the key movements in a story and how characters evolve in a narration is an undeniable strength for any actor. This workshop allows the participants to discover how a story is organised around “Narrative waypoints."
These waypoints take popular narrative theories and adapt them for improvised performance. Waypoints can be used to assist the creative process of designing a show or simply to help navigate a narrative long form during a performance. The goal being to liberate creativity in flexible and exciting ways whilst unlocking the full potential of your improvised stories.
This workshop is inspired by the work of Christopher Vogler, John Truby and Blake Snyder.

Teacher: Mark Jane

Date and time: Friday, 21 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours
Location: TBD

Without scripts, choreographed steps or composed music the only thing we as improvisers bring to the stage is our body and our voice. So how can we take good care of ourselves before, after and also during a show? As a trained musical theatre actress I have collected tools and tricks that work best for me for more than 20 years and I am excited to share them with you! We'll look at things like: How do we actually produce sounds and how can our physicality affect our voice and help us bring richer characters to life? So bring some comfy clothes, stay hydrated and get ready to make funny noises!
As my favorite voice coach says: "A siren a day keeps the doctor away!"

Teacher: Ursula Anna Baumgartner

Date and time: Friday, 21 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours
Location: TBD

We use our senses when we improvise, of course we do. We look at our partners and listen to them, as well as the music in the scene.
In this workshop we’ll use all of our five senses, and discover new ways to use them as an inspiration for characters, scenes and styles.
We'll explore physical objects and materials as inspirations - what can we learn from their looks, their sounds, their textures, and feel.
We'll use our vision to get scene inspirations from colors, shapes, and forms. For dessert, we'll get a taste of the deep and emotional senses, the ones that are connected to our desires and memories: smell and taste.
This workshop is about inspiration, but not only. We’ll work on listening, we’ll move a lot, we’ll see how we can use it for character building or for starting scenes or for developing the story. And through all of this, we'll become more attentive listeners and partners on stage.

Teacher: Liron Levin

Date and time: Friday, 21 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours
Location: TBD

Horror is one of the most popular genres of book and film, but is much less seen on an improv stage. Horror is hard to do well, but so rewarding when it is. In this workshop we’ll look at the art of being scary… and being scared. We’ll practice techniques and tools for creating horror scenes and stories that are genuinely scary and not the usual lame spoof impro tends to produce.

Teacher: Peter Moore

Date and time: Saturday, 22 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

In this workshop, Jill Bernard will take you through a series of exercises that inject your work with a little bit of truth and beauty. Having the ability to create improv that is honest and vulnerable adds another layer to your work, a little bit of cake underneath your frosting to take your work from light entertainment to something with resonance. Please wear closed toe shoes to this workshop.

Teacher: Jill Bernard

Date and time: Saturday, 22 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Duration: 6 hours of workshop with a showcase the same night
Location: TBD

Improv is a drag is a joyful explosion of character work! Start by learning about stage makeup (provided), trying on different faces, and learning some simple tricks to create an instant persona, then bring the characters to life on stage. If you'd like to level up your stagecraft, break out of a character rut, or just have a gay old time, this is the workshop for you.

This workshop is taught by two teachers. Therefore, the pricing is slightly different from our other workshops.

Teachers: Stephen Davidson, Cola Falquero

Date and time: Saturday, 22 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

We've all lived in this world for quite some time, and in that time, we've collected countless stories and experiences. From the people we've met to the adventures we've had, and all the little moments in between - whether exciting or ordinary - each has shaped our lives. Every conversation, every quirky moment, and every feeling we've had are like puzzle pieces that can come together to create something new and special. Everything we've lived through can be transformed into deep, interesting, authentic, and hilariously funny impro scenes.
We'll use our true selves and our own memories to launch into scenes with honesty and spontaneity. Our past experiences can help us create compelling characters, build relationships, and navigate the narrative of our scenes. Whenever we feel stuck or unsure of how to begin or what comes next, we can draw on our personal history to guide us forward.
Always remember - you are fascinating.

Teacher: Liron Levin

Date and time: Saturday, 22 February 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Peter Brook –“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.”

Goldilocks and the Three Bears—“At the kitchen table, there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry. She tasted the porridge from the first bowl. "This porridge is too hot!" she exclaimed. She tasted the porridge from the second bowl. "This porridge is too cold," she said. She tasted the last bowl of porridge.
"Ahhh, this porridge is just right," she said happily and she ate it all up.

These two references put together sum up the spirit of this experimental workshop, where we will look beyond the conventional expectations of improv scenes to embrace all the true possibilities of the unexpected. Anything can happen, so we must be prepared to engage with and mine the meaning out of anything that does.

Come join if you’re feeling brave, ambitious and intrigued!

Teacher: Hazel Ho

Date and time: Saturday, 22 February 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Duration: 3 hours of workshop
Location: TBD

Develop your Improvisation skills by learning the ancient and mysterious art of magic! Well...mysterious at least for now... Take part in this workshop lead by Katherine Rhodes (former Vice President of The Magic Circle) & Emma Wessleus (Improviser). Not only will you learn magic you'll be able to perform straight away, but also learn skills that will boost your improv, such as:

Confidence 2.0 : Ok let's be honest, our magic isn't real. In fact, a lot of the time its designed with the mind that everything needs to go right, so how do we remain cool under that pressure, let us show you how to act right even when things are going wrong.
Audience handling: Magicians almost always have audience members on stage, learn the tricks of the trade to make sure that person does what you actually want.
Mindreading: Improv is all about getting in the same headspace as your peers, so what can we learn from the practice of mindreading and mentalism?"

This workshop is taught by two teachers. Therefore, the pricing is slightly different from our other workshops.

Teachers: Emma Wessleus, Katherine Rhodes

For millennia people have shared fables around campfires, told tall tales, wove myths into legends and cast shadows of it all on cave walls. There’s even a story about it. The Allegory of the Cave is an exciting new improvised show. It combines traditional improv with puppetry and shadow theatre and weaves together elements of of mythology, folklore and more. Featuring big ideas, big characters and even bigger adventures.

Echoes of This Place is inspired by the stories spaces hold and how we capture them in a moment, making them tangible.
The audience enters a room under renovation with sheet-covered floor and furniture, painting materials scattered about. Three rolls of wallpaper drape through the room, intersecting at the centre.
A duo of decorators (∅) invite the audience to share a detailed memory of a wall. What was its color, pattern, texture? How did it make them feel then, and now?
The first of three guest improvisers begins a character monologue inspired by the memory. ∅ capture the story's echoes on the paper, painting feelings and unspoken elements. They may join as characters to reveal more. The second improviser starts where the first ended, ∅ work on the second paper. The third improviser continues from the second's ending, concluding where the first began.
Afterwards, ∅ invite the audience to explore the space, absorbing the resonance of the stories now living as echoes captured on paper.

Can we interest you in a lecture about a probabilistic approach to dealing with relationship problems? A marine biology perspective on the American presidential election? Or would you like to know how semiotics can help you minimise your everyday expenses? Anette and Daniela impersonate two professors who have the answer to everything and anything. With the help of a flipchart, pseudo-scientific principles, and the enactment of instructive educational scenes, the two characters solve the audience's everyday problems, while trying to prove to the world that academics are not completely useless. The fact that Anette and Daniela have no clue about the the academic disciplines of their improv characters does not keep them in any way from portraying their characters as know-it-alls. What the two actors know only too well are the trials and tribulations of academic settings – which they will put on full display during their show.

You’re invited to our Slumber Party, and you TOTALLY have to come!

Confessions, advice, stories, and flashbacks, all discovered live with the audience in this fast-paced, sometimes silly, sometimes raw, character-driven romp. Explore the hilarity found in the awkward discovery of who we are and how we fit into the larger world. Brave topics, genuine friendship, onesie pajamas.

For fans of: Dance · Physical Theatre · Being emotionally affected by a random object
A contemporary dancer, an Improv theater performer, a breakdancer and a single, unknown object. No talking. Through breakdancing, floorwork, object work, and the intermixing of those we create completely unchoreographed scenes creating a performance intermixing the absurd with genuine emotion.
* Content note: This show is accessible to non-English speakers.

Voor fans van: Dans - Fysiek Theater - Emotioneel geraakt worden door een willekeurig object
Een moderne danser, een improvisatiespeler, een breakdancer en één onbekend object. Er wordt niet gesproken. Met breakdance, floorwork, pantomime en de combinatie daarvan maken we nieuwe, niet-gechoreografeerde scènes. Samen vormen die een voorstelling die zowel absurd als oprecht is.
* Opmerking: Deze voorstelling is toegankelijk voor niet-Engelssprekenden.

Pop music's most recent It Girl was just broken up with (or she moved across the country, or she lost an important award, or something else - we'll find out from an audience suggestion), but the recording session must go on! Joined by her faithful manager and her producer, the trio write a series of brand-new hit songs for her next album in front of your eyes, and maybe laugh and cry a little too.