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Hila Di Castro


Hila Di Castro is an actress, international improviser and teacher based in Israel.
You can find her every year in Pandora improve festival (Italy) as she is the director of
the international cast.
Hila is a co-founder, member and co-artistic director of the trio MOMENTUM – one of
the leading improv groups in Israel.
She is the creator and director of the show “”Woman up!”” and also the host and one of
the performers both in the Israeli and the international cast. She is leading this show
with a vision of a worldwide project to create a web of women groups performing it
worldwide.
For over 10 years Hila tours the world performing and teaching acting and improv. She
has visited over 10 countries, Bringing her unique, inspiring, personal style and improv
philosophy.

All Sessions by Hila Di Castro

  • August 20


  • 09:30  - 15:30
    Research shows that an average woman speaks approximately 20,000 words a day, while a man speaks only 7000. In fact, this research has been disproved, but how quickly it evokes our stereotypes? Since childhood, we are programmed by society to think of gender in a certain way – boys should wear blue and be powerful, while girls should wear pink and be gentle. As we progress in time, we start breaking these patterns. But they are more profound than we think. In order to break them completely, we must know the history of gender roles and challenge ourselves not to take the beliefs we were raised on for granted. This workshop aims to do exactly that. We will dive into gender theory and history before challenging ourselves to play the opposite sex on stage without judgment. We will then challenge ourselves to play scenes without ANY gender presumptions at all. The laboratory’s goal is to make us see the world through different gender glasses.
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  • 17:00
    "The 3rd edition of the LIF is officially open...!" An evening to meet you all and celebrate the opening of this 3rd edition! During this opening night, you will be immersed in a whirlwind of energy, humor, and spontaneity, with unique performances created on the spot by all the festival Ensemble. The show will be performed in English.
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  • August 21


  • 09:30  - 15:30
    Research shows that an average woman speaks approximately 20,000 words a day, while a man speaks only 7000. In fact, this research has been disproved, but how quickly it evokes our stereotypes? Since childhood, we are programmed by society to think of gender in a certain way – boys should wear blue and be powerful, while girls should wear pink and be gentle. As we progress in time, we start breaking these patterns. But they are more profound than we think. In order to break them completely, we must know the history of gender roles and challenge ourselves not to take the beliefs we were raised on for granted. This workshop aims to do exactly that. We will dive into gender theory and history before challenging ourselves to play the opposite sex on stage without judgment. We will then challenge ourselves to play scenes without ANY gender presumptions at all. The laboratory’s goal is to make us see the world through different gender glasses.
    Workshops

  • 20:30  - 22:30
    Shows

  • August 22


  • 09:30  - 15:30
    We all know the “inner judge” thatsits on ourshoulder. While making a seriousface, it constantly makes us doubt ourselves, thinking and feeling that we are not good enough - A thing that couldn't be farther from the truth. During my years as an improviser, I have found out that one of my greatest tasks is to understand how to handle my inner judge. I have developed a set of tools for different kinds of situations that tend to wake my inner judge up. These are tools that help me turn my inner judge into an ally rather than an obstacle. In this workshop we will get to know more about our inner judge, where it comes from and why it is so loud. Using highly practical tools, we will learn how to silence our inner judge when needed - and when it is important to pay attention to what they have to say. The purpose of this workshop is to help you get out of your head, trust yourself and be more free in your improv.
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  • August 23


  • 20:30  - 21:15
    Two people meet somewhere. Nothing can go wrong, right? But it does. It always does. And every time they try to make it right, it just makes it even worse. Have you ever been in this kind of situation? Two characters. One location. Thirty minutes. One big problem. Hila Di Castro and Feña Ortalli destroyed Lena Breuer's kitchen in when they only intended to make coffee. Since then, they're known as: The Coffee Saboteurs.
    Shows

  • August 24


  • 20:30  - 21:15
    Hovering over a public toilet seat while keeping your pants from touching the floor, wearing another pair of underwear over your stockings to keep them from sliding down, being sexually harassed, coughing over your farts to cover the sound, keeping business as usual even while hurting from period pain, allowing someone to help you carry your suitcase up the stairs, feeling your baby kick in your womb… These are only some of our experiences as women in this world. The kind of things women talk about behind closed doors, (if they even talk about them at all...) and the kind of experiences we rarely see on stage. Until now ! In this show everything will be out in the open - all the funny, painful, scary, icky and powerful moments we experience as women, alone and together. How does it feel to be a woman on this planet? Come watch the show!
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  • August 26


  • 09:30  - 15:30
    Put the essence of acting into your improv. Two of the fundamental principles of professional acting (which we tend to forget when we are improvising) are action and reaction: Action means how we affect and move our partner emotionally; reaction means how we become emotionally affected and changed by our partners. By focusing on attentive, intentional action and emotional reaction, the relationship between characters immediately deepens and we automatically create compelling, deep and surprising scenes that are absolutely fascinating to watch and super- fun to play. In this workshop we will learn the meaning of affective actions, the keys for authentically portraying every emotion (big or small) and what happens when we combine the two. This workshop is a ticket to the wild and fun roller-coaster of re/acting that will get you creating the most vital scenes you have ever played. Level: intermediate - advanced
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  • 20:30  - 22:30
    Life is due to chance, and so is improvisation! Random is a pure form of improvisation show. Random is a playground for these grown-up children, the actors, and an open window into their imagination. Starting from scratch, actors and musicians embark on universes they discover and explore in front of you, based on spontaneously created scenarios. Our instant tightrope walkers walk on the threads of chance, allowing themselves to be carried away by the atmosphere of the moment, the music, the light, and the randomly placed stage elements. As the headliner of the Barcelona International Festival (BIG IF 2015), Random has had great success at international improv festivals in Leuven, Brussels, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Tampere, Dublin, and Amsterdam. Today, this format is performed by other companies and taught in different countries
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