Workshops

Hannu Risku (FIN): Feelgood Music Impro Workshop

Location: Sindikalna dvorana, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana.
Time: Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (6-hour wokrshop).
Participants: open for improvisers of all levels and impro musicians, maximum 12 participants.
 
About the workshop:
Are you afraid of singing or do you love it more than anything? In both cases, this is the workshop for you. Impro with music is relaxing and liberating. Everyone who sings is a singer, and all the notes are correct. You don’t need to know music theory, you don’t need to have music education, all you have to do is jump into unknown, listen and react.

Through music, we can explore impro philosophy, positive interaction and being present on stage. We use our voices and bodies as tools. We play with melodies, rhythms, lyrics, vocal groups, improv choir and conductor, acappellas, gibberish songs and more. We also dive into different music genres, discover what they are made of and how to improvise and have fun with them.

About Hannu:
Hannu Risku is a musician, an improviser and a composer from Porvoo, Finland. He is a member of Finland’s premier impro theatre group Stella Polaris, he is a founding member of musical impro duo Kaksi Pitkää Miestä and regularly collaborates with Kolektiv Narobov from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works as a freelance musician in many bands and theatres and has composed music for theatre, circus, contemporary dance and film. He has performed at theatre festivals around the world and we are glad his infectious positive energy will be present at this year’s Naked Stage as well!

Beatrix Brunschko (AUT): Ant Power

Location: Kreatorij DIC, Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja, Poljanska street 26, Ljubljana
Time: Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (6-hour wokrshop).
Participants: open for artists from different performing arts - actors, directors, choregraphers, dancers, clowns, story-tellers, puppeteers, etc., maximum 16 participants.

About the workshop:
If you give a colony of ants a week and a pile of dirt they will transform it into skyscrapers in an ant-scaled city. Without a blueprint or a leader, thousands of insects moving specks of dirt create a complex structure. It turns out that ants perform these complex tasks by obeying a few simple rules. It all results from local interactions between the individuals who are simply using their ant power and are just doing their jobs as ants in response to outside cues and each other which makes it possible that this amazing final structure and a complex society emerges without central coordination and leadership. Because of this, ants are a popular source of inspiration for design in software engineering, robotics, industrial design, and other fields involving many simple parts working together to perform complex tasks.
 
In this workshop let them be an inspiration for the collaboration of us improvisors on stage. Let them be our role models for working together on stage when we are using our impro power to create a piece of theatre from nothing. Let’s focus on our true improv powers and let´s just simply do our job as improvisors and practice our best impro skills while we spend time on stage together. Let´s truly listen to our fellow players, let´s open up and look into each others eyes for real, let´s unconditionally follow each other, let´s honestly respond to our fellow players in every single moment of our connection. And at the end of the day let´s step aside and look back at the complex, fascinating pieces of theatre we left behind.

About Beatrix:
Beatrix Brunschko is an improviser, actress, director and teacher from Graz, Austria. She is an ensemble member of Theater im Bahnhof – TiB, where she works as an actress, director and artistic director of TiB-impro. She is working as a drama teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and she also teachers all over Austria, Germany and Switzerland as well as in Sweden, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Canada, USA and Slovenia, where we are glad to host her at the Naked Stage 2016!

Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik (SLO): ​Dress Comfortably and Be Prepared to Move

Location: Sindikalna dvorana, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana.
Time: Saturday, 26 November from 2 p.m to 5 p.m and Sunday, 27 November from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Participants: open for improvisers of all levels, maximum 12 participants.

About the workshop:
We depart technically: where we are, how we are, where are the others in relation to us.
A figure in space and a space in the figure, relation between two or more figures.

Through this workshop we will wizz through and try out a few tools and approaches, that open possibilities for various movement dynamics and spatial decisions (following a score).


About Andreja:
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik is a choreographer, a pedagogue and a researcher from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
She obtained her Masters degree at the London Contemporary Dance School, later at Cal Arts in exchange programme, she continued studying through research, collaborations and her own creations. Her work was awarded several times, she has performed all around Europe, USA and Canada and taught in Slovenija, UK, USA, Russia, Canada, Germany, Austria, Croatia and Portugal.

Photo: Nada Žgank

Jacob Banigan (CAN): Ignore Me!

Location: Kranj
Time: Saturday, 26 November from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 27 November from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (6-hour workshop)
Participants: improvisers with moderate to high level experience

About the workshop:
The Improviser on stage is a Triad: simultaneously the Actor, Writer and Director. The Scene on stage is both Process and Product; created and complete at once. To make all of these aspects work in harmony, the Improviser actually must disappear. The setting and character must become more real than the actual stage and performer. Our ego got us to the stage, but then is stashed away, so that the truth of the scene emerges.

About Jacob:
Jacob Banigan joined the Theater im Bahnhof Ensemble in 2006. He started improvising in 1990 at Rapid Fire Theatre in Canada, and was Artistic Director of RFT for 10 years. Banigan captained The Canadian Shield to victory in the 2006 Theatersports World Cup. Jacob plays in Vienna with English Lovers, and everywhere else with Rocket Sugar Factory

​Registration, participation fees,  locations, other info

Registration:  by 21 November 2016 via  goli.oder@gmail.com.
Participation fees: 55 eur one workshop / 90 eur two workshops. Participation fee must be paid via bank transfer until 21 November 2016.
Languages: all workshops will be held in English.
Further info: 00386 31 427 846 (Juš Milčinski) or Skype: jus.milcinski

Locations:
Sindikalna dvorana, Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana

Kreatorij DIC, Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja,  Poljanska street 26, Ljubljana