During our stay in Berlin, we'll be attending four days of workshops delivered by two different workshop leaders. Let's meet them...
Simone is an experienced and passionate improv and acting coach, amongst others at an acting school in Zurich. She teaches improv, physical theatre, acting skills, storytelling, working on characters, improvised dance, clownery and several other topics. Beside being an improvisor, actor and improvcoach, Simone also works as a drama educator/ director and author in several projects eg. with schools, mentally handicapped, immigrants, which includes improv as well as other theatrical approaches.
Berlin Improv Festival 2014 - Workshop Leader - Simone Schwegler from The Vic High Sharks Improv on Vimeo.
Berlin Improv Festival 2014 - Workshop Leader - Tomaz Lapajne Dekleva from The Vic High Sharks Improv on Vimeo.
Simone Schwegler
Simone Schwegler, well known for her physicality and playfulness on stage, is the artistic director and member of Harri Olli and theater anundpfirsich, two of the biggest and most succesfull improvtheatre companies in Switzerland. Simone’s main interest and artistic focus lies on longform and theatrical improv performances which results in Harri Olli’s unique style: theatrical, charming, physical and emotional improvisational theatre. Beside touring and teaching a lot at festivals and with many groups in Europe and America within the last years, Simone has been performing as a resident at Keith Johnstones Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary/Canada.Simone is an experienced and passionate improv and acting coach, amongst others at an acting school in Zurich. She teaches improv, physical theatre, acting skills, storytelling, working on characters, improvised dance, clownery and several other topics. Beside being an improvisor, actor and improvcoach, Simone also works as a drama educator/ director and author in several projects eg. with schools, mentally handicapped, immigrants, which includes improv as well as other theatrical approaches.
About the Workshop: Be Physical
We believe that in improv many great offers and moments are ruined by too much talking. This workshop will show the participants how to use and feel their body and thereby building strong characters on stage and in scenes. They will find out how they can let their body make decisions, fully embrace them, and express them physically in scenes, which allows any observer to connect stronger to the performance than any piece of dialogue could. Via physicality and techniques from physical and action theatre we find new paths to more authentic characters and relationships, which are the core of every good scene. We will explore new characters via body, emotions, images, sounds, animals and others so everyone finds an own personal approach to fill their characters with more life – lovable, hateable, honest, and funny but simply true characters.Berlin Improv Festival 2014 - Workshop Leader - Simone Schwegler from The Vic High Sharks Improv on Vimeo.
Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva
Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva is an author and performer in improvisational theatre (Kolektiv Narobov, Instant šov, Impro liga), street theatre (Priden možic), theatre for children (Gledališče Unikat), clowning (Rdeči noski), contemporary dance (En knap, Andreja Podrzavnik), radio (Radio Slovenia) and films (Television Slovenia, Neda Baćić, Propeler). He has authored numerous published and presented texts (for Društvo za razvoj gledališča v izobraževanju, Radio Slovenia, Television Slovenia, Panika publisher, Mentor magazine) as well as professional articles. He was teaching improvisational theatre for seven years at the state theatre high school in Nova Gorica and has state status as an independent artist.About the Workshop
The workshop is going to be about basic mechanisms of building a scene - European style! How to define the place of action? How to build a character? How to establish the relationship between characters? How to build a situation? How to use emotions? How to find the right balance between giving information and following already established information? What is a good time for new information? And finally - how to make the story interesting!Berlin Improv Festival 2014 - Workshop Leader - Tomaz Lapajne Dekleva from The Vic High Sharks Improv on Vimeo.
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