Workshops
Marie Wellmann: Producing Impro
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Location: Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja - building A, Poljanska street 26, Ljubljana.
Time: Tuesday, November 20 from 3pm till 7pm (4 hour seminar) Participants: open for producers and organisers that for in the field of improvisational theatre About the seminar: The seminar is principally intended for producers, organisers, coordinators, theatre managers and festival teams that work in the field of improvisational theatre. It offers an overview of current trends on the European impro scene and addresses questions of organisational and production management of groups, organisations, theatres and festivals. The overview of classic areas of cultural management – public relations, fundraising, project management, audience development – will come to life in discussion based on experiences of the participants with examples of good practices, possible development strategies and production methods. About Marie: Marie Wellmann has been a producer of cultural projects in Berlin since 2005. She founded the Culturalis organisation where she pays special attention to improvisational theatre. Besides working as a producer for local theatres like Berlin's Gorilla Theater, she focuses a lot of her work on bigger international projects and networks that enable intercultural artistic exchange as well as cooperations between artists and audiences. Among other projects she co-managed the Theatresports World Cup (2006), Crumbs Euro Tour (2006-2014), IMPRO Festival (since 2008), Should I Stay or Should I go? (2013-2015) and Our Lives (2017-2019). |
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Matthieu Loos: Beyond Skin
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Location: Kreatorij DIC, Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja - building A, Poljanska street 26, Ljubljana
Time: Thursday, November 22, and Friday, November 23, from 2pm till 5pm (6 hour workshop) Participants: open for improvisers with at least 3 years of impro experience who regularly rehearse and/or perform, maximum 12 participants About the workshop: Political or geographic, linguistic or ideological, visible or invisible – boundaries shape us. Every liberty is bound by a limit. If skin is a boundary, then a wall is the shell that is made to protect the skin. The key process in improvisation is breaking down those walls, exposing our skin. Improvisation is seeing, touching, feeling, traversing, voyaging. At the Beyond Skin workshop we will use physical as well as psychological methods to reach the goal – beyond skin. About Matthieu: Matthieu Loos is a French actor, improviser, director and a founding art director of the Combats Absurdes theatre in Lyon. Years ago at the Naked Stage festival, he and Marko Mayerl performed the Slow Impro, one of the most influential performances in the field of contemporary improvisational theatre. With devotion to the body, movement and the principles of physical theatre he developed his own improvisational method called Slow. He is also an active poet and playwright. He published a book titled Une horloge n'est pas le temps (A Clock is Not the Time) in 2016. |
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Alenka Marinič and Justin Durel: Clown for Improvisers
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Location: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana.
Time: Saturday, 24 November from 2 p.m to 5 p.m and Sunday, 25 November from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (6 hour workshop) Participants: open for improvisers with at least 1 year of impro experience, who regularly rehearse and/or perform, maximum 12 participants About the workshop: The workshop Clown for Improvisers touches upon some important pillars of this theatre technique, like contact with the audience, levels of stage presence and breathing. The workshop will continue with an analysis of physical dynamics of each participant, explore their movement patterns and physical presence. This analysis allows us to enter into a clown state of mind that will serve as the basis for short improvised scenes. About Alenka and Justin: Alenka Marinič and Justin Durel are independent theatre artists. As authors, directors and actors they have cooperated with many theatrical projects in Europe and North America as authors, including Globus Hystericus and Kolektiv Narobov. In 2013 they concluded a three-year education at the international school of physical theatre Helikos in Florence under the mentorship of Giovanni Fusetti. Since then, they have been developing their mutual pegagogic vision based on the legacy of Jacques Lecoq that explores theatre and play from a perspective of physical theatre, and on the practices of somatic psychology. |
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Michaela Puchalková: Applied Impro Helps (closed workshop)
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Location: Sindikalna hall, Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana
Time: Wednesday, November 21 from 3pm till 7pm (4 hour workshop) Participants: internal workshop for the teachers of ŠILA, high school impro league. About the workshop: The workshop Applied Impro Helps deals with the use of improvisational principles in educational environment. It is intended for mentors of youth groups who use theatrical techniques in their work. Creativity is born out of cooperation where an individual has space to contribute, express themselves and listen. In a relaxed supporitve environment, fear, doubt and anxiety are replaced by attention, playfulness and creativity. About Michaela: Michaela Puchalkova first made her acquaintance with improvised theatre when she lived in Marseille where she was highly impressed by La Ligue d'Improvisation Phocéenne. When she returned to Prague in 2002, she founded the first Czech improvisational group Pra.l.i.ny and assisted in developing many groups and organisations working in improvisational theatre in the Czech Republic. In recent years, she has been focusing on the use of improvisational principles in non-artistic environments, runs workshops, coaches work teams, teaches and researches possible applications of theatrical techniques in other social areas. |
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Lee White: Game Show Formats (closed workshop)
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Location: IGLU premises, Celovška street 150, Ljubljana
Time: Friday, November 23 from 10am till 2pm (4 hour workshop) Participants: internal workshop for KUD Kiks About the workshop: At this workshop KUD Kiks will work with Lee White on the field of redesigning tv game shows to stage events. About Lee: Lee White is a world renowned theatre artist – performer, director and teacher. A Canadian, who lives in Berlin and spends a lot of his time on tours in Europe, Asia and North America. He is especially famous for the duo Crumbs in which together with Stephen Sim they have been co-creating the trends of contemporary improvisational theatre for more than 15 years. He has been involved in the birth of several new formats such as The Big Smart Improv Show and Knowledge and Punishment, the Improv/Game show. He has been collaborating in many international productions, namely in No Exit with Marko Mayerl and Matthieu Loos, in Paradigm together with Joe Bill and in Sincerely Yours with Maja Dekleva Lapajne and Hannu Risku. |
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Ladislav Karda: Free Form Impro (closed workshop)
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Location: Društvo Impro premises, Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana
Time: Saturday, November 24 from 1pm till 5pm (4 hour workshop) Participants: internal workshop for high school students involved with ŠILA, high school impro league About the workshop: Improvised theatre performances often include suggestions from the audience, like story titles, plots, settings, characters or genres. They also often follow rather exact directions, strict rules and predefined structures. This workshop focuses on free form improvisation, creating out of nothing and following whatever is already there. It addresses a question of how to ride the wave of creativity and at moments even forget that we are improvising. How to search for games where there are no pre-established rules. How to be playful while playing. About Ladislav: Ladislav Karda is a Czech artist who studied alternative and puppet theatre in Prague. In his work he combines improvisational theatre and puppets. He is active in collectives Just!Impro, Teapacks and 20000 Jews Under The Sea, and teaches improvisation at the ImproSchool organisation in Prague. |
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Julie Doyelle and Matthieu Loos (closed workshop)
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Location: Kranj
Time: Saturday, November 24 from 1.30pm till 5.30pm (4 hour workshop) Participants: internal workshop for KUD Kiks About the workshop: Focused on physical theater, Julie and Matthieu will guide the participants to discover what body can express. Instead of inventing scenes using words, the goal will be to discover them watching what the bodies already tell. Body first ! Space, rhythm, shape, distance, tempo, rather than character, story, line or dramaturgy. About Julie and Matthieu: Julie Doyelle moved to Lyon in 2001, where she works as puppeteer, improviser, actress, director, trainer. Improvisation has entered her life quite early, and has influenced all of her artistic activity. In Lyon she strongly appears in the local impro scene. First with the group Lolita, then with Inédit Théâtre, where she was internationally recognized. With this famous company she takes part in the production “Catch-Impro” and got the chance to travel the world to Impro Marathons and Festivals in Quebec, Montreal, Berlin, Geneva, Brussels. Now she works in Lyon with Compagnie Combats Absurdes and Amadeus Rocket companies. She recently was the French actress of the European impro project “Should I stay or should I go?”. Matthieu Loos is a French actor, improviser, director and a founding art director of the Combats Absurdes theatre in Lyon. Years ago at the Naked Stage festival, he and Marko Mayerl performed the Slow Impro, one of the most influential performances in the field of contemporary improvisational theatre. With devotion to the body, movement and the principles of physical theatre he developed his own improvisational method called Slow. He is also an active poet and playwright. He published a book titled Une horloge n'est pas le temps (A Clock is Not the Time) in 2016. |
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Registration, participation fees, locations, other info
aRegistration: by 20 November 2018 via registration form below. When you register you will get a pre-invoice, which needs to be paid via bank transfer in three working days or by 20 November 2018 at the latest.
Participation fees:
- Producing Impro 30 EUR
- Beyond Skin in Clown for Improvisers: 55 EUR each
- set of two workshops Producing Impro and Beyond Skin or Clown for Improvisers: 80 EUR
- set of two workshops Beyond Skin and Clown for Improvisers: 95 EUR
- set of all three open workshops: 120 EUR
Languages: all workshops will be held in English.
Further info: 00386 31 427 846 (Juš Milčinski) or goli.oder@gmail.com
Locations of the open workshops:
Kreatorij DIC, Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja, Poljanska street 26, Ljubljana
Participation fees:
- Producing Impro 30 EUR
- Beyond Skin in Clown for Improvisers: 55 EUR each
- set of two workshops Producing Impro and Beyond Skin or Clown for Improvisers: 80 EUR
- set of two workshops Beyond Skin and Clown for Improvisers: 95 EUR
- set of all three open workshops: 120 EUR
Languages: all workshops will be held in English.
Further info: 00386 31 427 846 (Juš Milčinski) or goli.oder@gmail.com
Locations of the open workshops:
Kreatorij DIC, Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja, Poljanska street 26, Ljubljana
Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana