3-Hour Workshops

3-hour workshops

Price: EUR 40 per workshop, EUR 150 if booking four workshops at the same time.

Thursday 15 September

  • Classic Games with Patti Stiles

    10:00 - 13:00

    Many classic impro games are actually exercises that build improvisation skill and technique. Plus, they are great fun to play. Come have an impro workout with a heck of a lot of laughs.

    This workshop is ideal for all levels of experience.

    Maximum number of participants: 20

  • Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta-Touch Me! with Simone Ellul

    14:00 - 17:00

    Let’s learn to make physical contact again! Following two years of pandemic we now no longer know how or whether to touch our scene partners. In this workshop we will explore how to regain some of the trust we have lost and gently allow physical contact to happen, always respecting people’s consent and boundaries.

    This workshop is ideal for all levels of experience.

    Maximum number of participants: 20

Friday 16 September

  • Game of the Scene with Pierpaolo Buzza

    10:00 - 13:00

    Want to spice up your scenes with some comedy? One of my favourite ways of doing it is finding, and playing, the game of the scene. In this workshop we will sharpen our senses to recognise what is going on in our scene, and then learn how to have fun with it by escalating, and breaking the glass ceiling between realistic and paradoxical.

    This workshop is ideal for participants with at least one year of experience.

    Maximum number of participants: 12

  • Symbolism, A Door To Stage Emotions with Dani Picò

    14:00 - 17:00

    Symbolism, A Door To Stage Emotions

    How do actions increase character emotions? We will practise physical and verbal tools that, applied by ourselves or proposed to our colleagues, will lead to a prettier stage composition, an increase in emotions and to a more truthful interpretation.

    This workshop is ideal for advanced participants.

    Maximum number of participants: 20

Saturday 17 September

  • How to Survive an Improv Apocalypse with Javier Pastor

    10:00 - 13:00

    We will work on more than twenty scenarios where one improviser will be programmed as an "Anti-Improv Robot" trying to boycott the scene while their partner will try to save the story. The first step is how to be conscious of those elements that kill a story and then we will develop tools to fight them.

    This workshop is ideal for participants of any level of experience.

    Maximum number of participants: 16

  • Attitude with Alessio Granato

    Sound, music and attitude as trigger elements of the creative phase of improvisation.

    Music makes us cry, it moves us, it makes us laugh, sometimes shout, jump or dance. Music encourages us and (re)charges us. It often makes us fall in love. Music is therefore a collection of emotions to be lived and discovered. And emotions are an essential element when building an improvisation scene.

    No musical knowledge is necessary to take this workshop. In fact, we will discover how certain ‘talents’ are innate and have always been a part of us. We will also learn the importance of silence, of pauses, of rhythm and listening - essential elements for an improvisation actor’s creative phase, both on a personal and group level, following the emotional flow that is induced by music.

    Three different approaches will be analysed:

    CREATIVE: where the improviser creates situations and sequences by allowing themselves to be transported by the emotions that the music provokes;

    ACTIVE: music captures the attention and amplifies mutual listening, emphasising the balance of the different parts; it makes us be actively involved and directly engaged, music directs internal experiences towards the outside;

    Music as AMPLIFYER OF EMOTIONS: through sounds, the voice (but not words), noises, body language and attitude.

    Music will therefore be an integral and active part of the workshop, including through the use of rhythm and a physical-emotive involvement, in order to be able to improvise by allowing oneself to be transported by the energy that notes give us.

    [“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

Sunday 18 September

  • The Narrative of the Body with Dorian Mallia

    10:00 - 13:00

    Dance is fueled by emotions. It is a process of feeling, and then allows us to move through that feeling. It has a combination of elements that help us become more intune with our emotions and how we express them. Through a number of dance improvisation exercises we will discover how the body in movement can express a thousand words and we can then apply this movement to our scene work as improvisers.

    This workshop is ideal for participants of any level of experience.

    Maximum number of participants: 16

  • The Stories You're Not Telling with Jurgi Erquicia

    14:00 - 17:00

    Do you share your gender identity, gender expression and affective-sexual orientation with the 99% of your characters? What keeps you from exploring and increasing the other 1%?

    In the workshop 'The stories you're not telling', you will learn about affective-sexual diversity and gender identities through improv. You will become aware of your own prejudices and get the tools to leave them behind on and off stage.

    This workshop is ideal for intermediate and advanced participants.

    Maximum number of participants: 20