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How can you make magic happen on stage? In this workshop, we'll be exploring just that by working with our collective and personal truths together as well as how to delve into what they show us about ourselves using improvised scenework. We'll see how instinct and intuition can guide our work with these truths and how we can connect to states of flow and connection together that surprise. All of these things can help prepare the way for our shared connection to the unseen to manifest on stage. No knowledge of the Tarot is required. Only a willingness to explore what stories may come from our personal or universal truth in a safe environment is needed. This workshop leads to the option of performing in the later Whatever Fate Decides show ensemble at the festival.

You want to play a scene, with truth and emotions? Connect to your partner and create a sincere enjoyable story? Yes but… how? By using your superpower: your inner voice. In this workshop, you will listen to your instinct as an actor/actress during the scenes, to embrace your own flow when you improvise. Your inner voice is always there, knowing what to do. Just give it the floor. Just that? Yes, and improvise scenes that matter. Embrace emotion. Together we will explore our impulses to create intense and truthful scenes.

Barcelona's newest and highest rated improv comedy show. Every Thursday night, TAB brings an action packed hour of silly characters, dramatic moments, and wacky shenanigans! Offering something unique on the European festival scene, we do a fast-paced short form improv comedy show. As the house improv team of a comedy club, we push ourselves to create big, bold characters and high energy scenes. Using the theme of Transcendence, and the idea of pushing to people to become greater than themselves, we will highlight games that involve challenge to the actors' creativity, pushing them to new discoveries, larger energy, and bigger surprises.

Ever found yourself on stage in a death scene, and stalled? Unsure how to approach these difficult subjects? Want to bring more pathos to your improv? Then this is the workshop for you. In this workshop, we will examine our relationships with the end of life, how we can represent these relationships truthfully onstage, and how we can treat our fellow players and audiences with compassion and humour while approaching these tough topics. There will be some in-depth discussion of death, dying, and cultural and religious attitudes to bereavement, which we will use as inspiration for introspective, open-hearted improv. Participants should be prepared to discuss both religious and non-religious aspects of death culture. This may be emotionally challenging. We will discover together what death and bereavement mean for you, and how you can realistically portray end of life scenes in front of an audience. Syllabus includes: Examinations of various end of life traditions, and how these can inspire improvisation Discussion and exploration of themes of death, dying, and bereavement Realistic acting for end of life scenes

"When we improvise a scene, we are keeping several balls in the air at the same time: remembering who we are, where we are and what we are doing, for starters. But because of all this multitasking, often a ball can drop, and one of the first things to go is our physicality. Suddenly, we become two talking heads on stage and our thoughts go something like this: “Why are my arms not moving? I was making coffee, yet I can’t seem to find the coffeemaker. How did we go from drinking coffee to a crusade to find the alien princess trapped in the secret room of the American White House where two families are ruling the earth and are responsible for 6G Antennas?” Alas, the minute the balls start dropping, we get inside our heads and self consciously start overcompensating by adding more and more information, confusing both ourselves and our partners in the process. But there are ways we can keep ourselves grounded and present in the moment: for example by taking our time to add the logical movement, actions, facial expressions, enjoying the process of realistically weilding a weapon, truthfully eating a sandwich where the mayo is overflowing… Just by adding one of these simple things, we simplify the scene by filling in the silence with actions. As the saying goes: actions speak louder than words. In ‘Add to Simplify’, we shall explore different points of inspiration for our scenes from our surroundings and object work, without becoming a mime-player in the process. Time to let our inner actor enjoy the act of ‘doing’!"

One show, 2 actors, 3 different stories. In this improv comedy show, Pan and Gian, along with the help of the audience, are going to create 3 different stories from scratch, all inspired by the concept of “journey”. These stories, although different at the beginning, in the end will become one with all the characters and the relationships coming together on a single “journey”.

Infinite possibilities open up in front of our eyes when two clowns take the stage and improvise. These two clowns look for the poetic and the ridiculous in a show full of movement, music, and madness. Dressed in truth and authenticity, they create a poetic world where reality and imagination lose their boundaries, transcending the limits of the stage and themselves, breaking the fourth wall, and making the audience part of the show. Imaginary worlds, full of fantasy and metaphor, are created on stage together with the audience, connecting us all... like strings.

This show is about what you normally don't get to see: the behind the scenes. This improvised story takes place in a theatre, behind the stage. Where the actors are preparing their roles for a play you'll never get to see. A peek in the lives of a very close group of friends.

Should we always tell the truth? “The secret of happiness in a couple is not to be blind. It is to close your eyes at the right time.” Simone Signore (French actress) An improvised play by the irresistible Mark Jane and Peggy Pexy Green.

Although we give our mind and thoughts a lot of power,they are only a small and rather limited part of the instrument that we access as an actor,our whole body A character does not arise from your thoughts,it is created with your body. If we think, we only recycle what we already learned and know. It is through observation that we discover new things and possibilities. Observation is also the easiest way to be here,now,in the moment. In this workshop we will observe how our body reacts to impulses given by using our 5 senses ( touch, hearing. sight, smell and taste) . We will use these reactions to create a character with your body instead of your thoughts. It is a fun and easy way to discover a whole new range of characters you probably never played before.

There's nothing as bonding as singing together in an improv setting. We've seen many people connect instantly over singing an improvised duet together for the very first time. Singing brings a lot of energy and joy, while being vulnerable at the same time. In this workshop we'll show you how you don't need a great voice or singing technique to shine while singing on stage. We provide you with the skills you need to have a reason to sing, present your song and how to find a structure. You'll notice how singing songs in your improv shows is very impressive for the audience, while it's actually pretty easy to do, once you understand how.

"Miming and manipulating is difficult" especially if you have to do it while making up a story. So instead, we can use the imaginary set we create as a tool to construct our story. That way the décor feeds the story and the story feeds the décor. If our story is inspired by the visual universe we create and fits into it, it makes it a lot easier both to play with the decor and to make up the story. So let's create a visual universe together, that way the only thing left to do is playing in it.

SPECTRUM is an original improv format. In each performance, 8 characters will encounter each other on stage, having one common starting point: their personal connection to the "key protagonist" of the story. Through a thread of different viewpoints, a mutual reality will unfold, where any outcome is possible and every truth will eventually find its place. 1 PRISM, 8 PERSPECTIVES, A STORY COMING TO LIGHT

In contrast to painting, writing, film, where the products are "finished" and the artists can showcase their paintings, books, feature films, improvisational theatre does not have a final product. In reality, the final product is a process in which we invite the audience, thus exposing ourselves and at the same time creating the performative value of the creation. Every end is a new beginning, as they say. What do we say goodbye to when we leave a story, an idea, a person, ourselves...and... Why? In her first improvised solo performance, Sara says goodbye to her fellow performers and faces the void they leave behind. How does this emptiness enrich her, what does it give her, what does it take away from her, who and what does she meet when she is alone? With the help of a musician, she descends into the unknown, and asks more questions than she gives answers. The Art of Saying Goodbye is the result of many years of research and of the creative path of one of the most outstanding and internationally recognized creators of improvisational theater in Slovenia. It is a superb demonstration of hard work over many years, which questions how far a performer can go in perfecting her craft and what she has to give up or what she has to say goodbye to. The performance maintains a delicate balance between accessibility, which is made possible through vulnerability by the format of impro theatre, and the question of how demanding this artistic genre can really be.

Venghino, siori, venghino! Look out for us! Cantastorie came here to make a fuss. We are ready to honour ancient traditions As we are singer, improvisers and musicians We’ll perform your feelings, sorrows and glories As your suggestions will create our stories The show is unique, we’re aiming high On this stage our stories grow and die From Italy, the land of taralli and vin santo, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to DALTROCANTO!

Sum of Them A cast of international improv teachers from around Europe comes together in the spirit of play, exchange, and cooperation to create Sum of Them. Featuring Alfonso Garzas, Flavien Reppert, Liz Peters, Noah Levin, and Sara Soukal Tutti Frutti A freeform collage, inspired by the players, the moment, the audience, and the creative insanity of LIF technician Antoine. A theme running through all of the scenes will be discovered and elevated through organic play. There are no rules, only Tutti Frutti.