Workshops
Adam McKenzie: What is Funny?
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Time: Thursday, 24 October from 3pm to 6pm
Location: IGLU Impro School, Vošnjakova 5 The workshop is full! The workshop is devoted to exploring humour and all its diversities. What is funny? So often we step out on stage trying to be funny, only to find that comedy can be very elusive and hard to define. In this workshop we bring our collective experience together to share what makes us laugh. We will take a closer look at where improvised comedy can come from, exploring scenes and characters in an effort to understand the millions and millions of ways to make someone smile. We are not trying to be funny in this workshop but we’ll be aiming to have a lot of fun and support each other in being funny. Adam McKenzie is an Australian multi-award-winning comedian, actor, writer and improviser with over 25 years of experience. He has performed as an improviser worldwide, won awards with his sketch trio Watson, and directed films and TV commercials. The workshop is in English. |
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Rama Nicholas: How to Make Your Partner Look Good (workshop for highschool improvisers)
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Time: Saturday, 26 October from 11am to 2pm
Location: IGLU Impro School, Vošnjakova 5 Make your partner look good. The number one philosophy of most impro groups around the world, but sometimes it is easier said than done. Sometimes we forget to focus on our teammates out of stress or panic. And sometimes our ego gets in the way and we do not even realise we are focusing on ourselves more. But what if focusing on our partner and making them look good makes us look good as well. In this workshop we will be working with exercises, tips and tricks to help take our impro skills to the next level, by truely honing in on our partners, by inspiring them, helping them shine and showing them a really good time. Rama Nicholas is an actress, director, filmmaker, improviser and teacher from Melbourne who has been internationally active for over 25 years. She is the creator of improvisational formats Close to You, The Wishing Tree and The Travellers, with which she travels international festivals of theatre improvisation in Australia, Europe and the United States and stages fresh performances each time with international festival casts. In recent years, she is mainly devoted to themes of intimacy and sexuality in her performances, she teaches workshops on the topic of physical contact and issues of safety, trust and consent. She also works as an intimacy coordinator in film, television and theatre productions. She is a member of the international theatre group Orcas Island Project and a member of the feminist art collective Mary Shelley's Mothers. The workshop is designed for a closed group of students from the High School Impro League. The workshop is in English. |
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Tina Janežič: Body, Humor, Improvisation (an Intro to Clown)
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Time: Saturday, 26 October from 11am to 3pm
Location: Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova 18 Apply here A sweet and quick workshop on clown basics. Space. Spacing. Spatialisation. Yes, focusing on space. And focusing on movement in space. Oh, yeah. Looking at what our bodies and our movements are communicating. And yes, wordless impro. That, yeah. Impro. Without words. Enough of words. Tina Janežič is a teacher using the Jacques Lecoq method. She trained at the Lassaad School in Brussels, and received additional pedagogical training at the Helikos International School. She works as a clown and teacher with Red Noses International and is a professor of acting at the Alma Mater Europaea Academy of Dance. She has been a guest at major clown festivals such as the Paggliace Festival in Torino, the Zagreb Clown Festival, the Salamanca Festival, the Bolina Festival in Portugal, Olé in Vienna, the Brno Juggling Convention, the Berlin Professional Clown Meeting and the Slovenian Klovnbuf. In Ljubljana she has been running the clown cabaret Za crknt for many years and is the president of DSKU, the association for contemporary clown art. The workshop is in Slovene. |
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Rama Nicholas: Creating Safe Space (workshop for ŠILA teachers)
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Time: Sunday, 27 October from 11am to 3pm
Location: Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova 18 This workshop focuses on the concept of consent, expressing boundaries and understanding power dynamics. 'Yes And' culture is fun and so wonderful for embracing creativity and supporting stage partners. But what happens if a student feels uncomfortable around certain offers? What happens if a student does not feell like they can speak up about their personal boundaries? And how do we create a truly safe environment for them to do so? How do we recognise our own power dynamics in workshops we teach? By safe consent practice and by empowering our students to take responsibility for their own boundaries and be sensitive to others’ boundaries, we can create an environment that allows them to take greater risks and also have big, big fun. Rama Nicholas is an actress, director, filmmaker, improviser and teacher from Melbourne who has been internationally active for over 25 years. She is the creator of improvisational formats Close to You, The Wishing Tree and The Travellers, with which she travels international festivals of theatre improvisation in Australia, Europe and the United States and stages fresh performances each time with international festival casts. In recent years, she is mainly devoted to themes of intimacy and sexuality in her performances, she teaches workshops on the topic of physical contact and issues of safety, trust and consent. She also works as an intimacy coordinator in film, television and theatre productions. She is a member of the international theatre group Orcas Island Project and a member of the feminist art collective Mary Shelley's Mothers. The workshop is designed for a closed group of teachers from the High School Impro League. The workshop is in English. |
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Samo Oleami: Street Critique - Critical Writing on Performing Arts
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The workshop is aimed at young writers who already have some publications behind them, as well as established writers who would like to deepen their knowledge of the specific type of artistic expression in question. We will start with an introductory lecture on the specifics of improvisational theatre. The main method of work will be group discussions, in which we will analyse the performances after watching them. The workshop also includes working on the text with the tutor through three drafts. The text will be published on Radio Student in the programme Street Critique.
Samo Oleami is a critic and a dramaturge in the field of performing arts and covers a wide range of performative practices in his writing and thinking about theatre: contemporary dance, devised theatre, street theatre, improvisational theatre, drama theatre, live art and intermedia. Having experience in different roles within a creative process – theatre director, assistant director, dramaturge, performer, PR, occasional technician – enabled him to develop a broader, thorough insight into performing arts. Through his studies, writing and art projects he developed in-depth knowledge on Slovene neo-avantgarde movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the crossover of performing and visual arts, as well as the global context of neo-avant-garde and the emergence of contemporary performing arts practices and strategies. He currently writes for Radio Student Ljubljana. The workshop is in Slovene. |
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