About the workshop:
Improvisation as a creative process – presence, connection, shared experience. Improvisation is a tool for telling true stories that arise from our connection with others and from being fully present in the ‘here and now’. The workshop is designed to bring people together and invites participants to share a rich experience of improvisation in a festival atmosphere. Through games, exercises and short scenes, participants quickly connect with one another, get to know each other and build trust — with the sense that, after a short time working together, they become a team. We work on stage presence, relationships between partners and the emotional truth of the scene. We focus on short improvised forms, mindfulness, responding to impulses and creating together without a pre-planned script. The workshop combines improvisation techniques with work on the body, voice and imagination. It is a space for experimentation, for allowing oneself to be oneself and for drawing energy from the group’s diversity. The sessions are open to both beginners and those with experience. It is an opportunity to discover one’s own language of improvisation through mindfulness, courage and collaborative action.
About the facilitators:
This is Iskra Serca — Tomek and Marta, a hotbed of theatrical improvisation. We are both practitioners and trainers in improvisational theatre. For several years now, we have been running improvisation workshops at festivals.
Tomek was one of the first in Poland to introduce theatre improvisation workshops. He is the founder and a former long-standing member of the improvisation group ‘Jesiotr’ (now ‘Komedia z Ikrą’), which has been on the Wrocław scene since 2012. His current project is the workshop group ‘Iskra Serca’.
Tomek’s experience in theatrical improvisation includes four years of study in Vancouver, Canada — one of the world’s most important centres for improvisation, alongside Chicago. He works using the methods of Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin. He has taken part in improvisation courses at theatres associated with artists such as Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”).
Marta is a co-founder of the improvisation group “Jesiotr”, with whom she trained and performed on the Wrocław stage. She currently runs improv workshops with Tomek.
Our workshops have a loyal following at festivals such as Dreamersland, Shantaram, Organic, Fruń, Kocham Cię, the Free Families Festival and Psyfly — every year we meet people there who return to our sessions.
This year, we’d particularly like to offer you a workshop that combines team-building with the real-life experience of improvisation and collaborative creation. In our experience, it is precisely this kind of session that leaves the deepest impression on participants.
The sessions are not just about having fun, but about building trust, mindfulness and the courage to act in the here and now. Participants experience live theatre, form relationships that often last for the rest of the festival, and discover that improvisation can become more than just a one-off workshop for them.
Through warm-ups, games that create a safe space, and the adventure of improvising together, people get to know each other quickly — often with the feeling that they’ve known each other for ages. Working together allows them not only to get to know each other better, but also to feel that they’re experiencing something meaningful and authentic together.
That is why this season we are focusing on a workshop that brings festival-goers together through action, creativity and a shared stage experience.
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