WORKSHOPS
Best teachers from the US, Europe, Australia and Russia
ST PETERSBURG, 13 – 16 SEPTEMBER
"SKOROHOD"
Timetable
All workshops cost 1500₽. Now you can prepay 500₽, thereby reserving your participation in the selected master class. The rest you pay on the spot.
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Story development
Characters
Physicality
Work with partners
13 September, Thursday

Flavien Reppert
"Read the scene! Dont write it!"
People would tend to think improv is a blank page to be filled. To me, Improv is a page, already written in invisible ink that you only have to read. Improv is not a creative effort, it's an abitliy of the artist to be present and open enough to be the receptacle and the medium of the art. In this class I'll give you Improv glasses to see everything, we'll read the scenes, the space, the objects and of course our partners. Everything is already there, there's nothing to be created or invented. There's just momentum to be revealed.
13/09
15:00 – 18:00
14 September, Friday

Noah Levin
"Say What?"
How does the audience know it's improvised? The suggestion. It's also the way that the audience member interacts with the players to become part of the show. This workshop will teach skills in incorporation of audience suggestions in creative ways, from initiation through to the end of the scene. As well, you will learn how to deflect "bad" suggestions. Great for people looking to improve MC skills
14/09
11:00 – 14:00

Frédéric Pont
"Bodies and images"
This speechless and musical workshop explores the power and the beauty of group effects and collective images. We will focus on Esthetic in scenes, and how music and collective intelligence improve emotions and messages.

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14/09
11:00 – 14:00

Nick Byrne
"Unconditional improv"
How much do you really care about your scene partner? Concerned with the idea that we know we want to embrace the offers of others, "Unconditional Improv" has a focus on our scene partner, listening, observing, endowing them, etc, BUT these are practical measures to emulate actually caring about them. They do work. We do end up caring more about each other, and focussing on each other, but we can also do a range of work that more directly and honestly causes us to genuinely care about our scene partners, our audience, and ourselves, so that practical skillsets like embracing their offers and endowing them will occur completely naturally by default. Unconditional Improv is a platform for good performance and for healthy group dynamics that influence good performance. The idea has arisen, because I realised that it was what I was doing myself in class and on stage when I am at my best.
14/09
15:00 – 18:00

Stefan Andersson
"Dialogues that matter"
In this workshop we will focus on dialogues and on creating the ones that will get the audience emotionally invested and make your characters come to life. Some interactions live on in the memory long after the story has reached its end and those are the ones we are looking for. The techniques and mindsets in this workshop are mainly focused on improvised drama, but are also very useful in improvised comedy.
14/09
15:00 – 18:00
15 September, Saturday

Tamara Maasdam
"Macro Focus"
We all know the principle of "yes and". But do we really say yes to everything? How many tiny presents go unnoticed until we say yes to the bigger, more obvious offer? Can we fuel our scene with a simple "good morning"? Can the tiniest detail drive our show? This workshop focuses on those small offers and details that make our scenes and characters rich and unique. We will slow down and zoom in on what's already there. We will discover rather than invent.
15/09
10:00 – 13:00

Ira Seidenstein
"Movement/acting/clown"
Using action, physical impulse to open and anchor ones spontaneous creatively, imagination. Exercises which are clear and concise, but, which release the subconscious.
15/09
10:00 – 13:00

Flavien Reppert
"Worst case scenario"
Deal with the worst improvisers and worst situations. Improvising implies taking risks but also commitment to your partners. We want to feel safe on stage but that oftens makes us too polite. We'll study both sides of the coin and learn how to break the rules and deal with the rulebreakers
15/09
14:00 – 17:00

Sergey Zakatov
«Заткнись!»
На мастер-классе вы познакомитесь с актерской техникой Чехова, которая поможет вам перестать быть «говорящей головой» и довериться своему подсознанию. Вы перестанете волноваться о развитии сюжета и доверитесь своему телу.

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15/09
14:00 – 17:00

Dina Mild
"Musical Improv"
Многие люди хотят научиться красиво петь и писать песни, а когда ты импровизатор, — ты хочешь всего этого, но только чтобы строчки сочинялись на ходу, желательно в рифму и желательно имели смысл и были частью сцены. На этом мастер-классе участники получат возможность раскрыть свой певческий потенциал, поучатся основам музыкальной импровизации, узнают о рифме, ритме и некоторых приемах, позволяющих делать интересные музыкальные сцены и получать от этого не стресс, а удовольствие. Будем много петь (возможно, и танцевать) вне зависимости от опыта и способностей!

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15/09
14:00 – 17:00
16 September, Sunday

Jacintha Daniela
"The different faces"
We tend to stick to stereotypes, and we tend to put other people in to stereotypes as well without actually realizing it. How many times haven't we seen on stage a women performing the typical secretary while the man is playing the bad boss of a factory? Wouldn't it be cool to see the reverse roll, going against the stereotypes? In this workshop we will challenge our brain to think different while we at the same time explore all the characters we can do by using our body and voice in a more exotic way, using combinations we hardly ever see. We will go from practicing typical high and low status to more advanced stuff, getting more concerned of what we are particularly doing with our body and voice, avoiding habits and stereotypes.
16/09
10:00 – 13:00

Alex Mikerov
«Внимание/энергетика»
Часто уделяя пристальное внимание партнеру и происходящему в сцене, мы не успеваем оставаться на должном уровне энергетики — и сцены становятся скучными; и наоборот — активно импровизируя, мы забываем обо всём на свете. Чтобы сохранить баланс, необходимо прокачать оба этих важных навыка. В этом вам помогут упражнения из чикагской школы импровизации и американской клоунады, а также упражнения по системе Сэнфорда Мейзнера. Минимум теории, максимум практики — приготовьтесь, будет громко!

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16/09
10:00 – 13:00

Noah Levin
"What's Happening Now?"
You've learned the fundamentals of scenework and practiced a few longforms. Now, free yourself from the trappings of structure and let your team react to every shared impulse. Learn tricks to make your Longform more fluid and dynamic and recognize themes that appear naturally. All this can give added theatrical meaning to your improv. Everything you know and have experienced can be channeled into strong, free, artistic improv
16/09
14:00 – 17:00

Isaac Simon
"Organic long form"
Energize and free up your long form play with this free form workshop. In this class, students will learn how to discover the show as it's happening around them, with an expansive long form editing toolkit, new ways to open scenes, and a few useful set pieces to get all the actors involved. Based on a "follow the fun" mentality, this workshop will open you up to limitless possibilities for playfulness in improv.
16/09
14:00 – 17:00

Noha Mousbah
"The Naked Improviser"
Can we allow our body to express what it feels freely, without the intellect interfering? Do we sometimes feel the need to clarify emotions for the audience, underestimating what truthful feelings convey? How much of the emotions we show on stage are truly deeply our own? In this workshop, we explore how our characters and relationships can be born and developed when we dare to be vulnerable, using the feelings we authentically carry within us. We work on creating genuine reactions that help us come deeper into our character and strengthen the character and scene authenticity towards our co-players and the audience.
16/09
14:00 – 17:00
Nick Byrne
Australia
Nick Byrne is Artistic Director of Improvention; Australia's international festival & convention of unscripted theatre, concentrating on innovation and atmosphere. Nick also operates Impro ACT, Canberra's original company and school for improvisation.

Previously, a professional musician and vocalist, scripted actor on stage and screen, voice artist, Master of Ceremonies, radio comic, and more, improvised theatre is now clearly his obsession.
Noah Levin
The US/Spain
Noah Levin hails from a little corner of the Rocky Mountains of North America. He started drama classes at summer camp in the woods of Northern California and hasn't looked back since, attaining a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Education from the University of California at San Diego, teaching drama (at secondary schools and summer camps), and studying Improvisation at the People's Improv Theatre and Upright Citizen's Brigade in New York. Noah worked as a professional standup comedian and improviser in New York, coaching the Red Tie Mafia, before moving to Barcelona. As co-Director of Barcelona Improv Group and The Barcelona Improv Group International Festival (The BIG IF), Noah currently teaches several levels of improv classes and leads workshops in theatre, creativity, teamwork, and employee training for adults and students. He has taught theatre professionally since 2001, sharing the love of play and creation to thousands of children and adults. Additionally, Noah directs The Present Moment, bringing the theory and practice of improvisation to conferences, businesses, and individuals.
Sergey Zakatov
Russia
Skilled teacher and actor, graduated from GITIS and from 2013 works in the theater, films in the movies and does shows with moscow improv team Total Nutz.
Алекс Микеров
Москва
Участник, один из основателей и художественный руководитель импров-банды Total Nutz.

Единственный импровизатор в России, который учился в трёх основных импров-школах США: Upright Citizen Brigade в Нью-Йорке, The Second City и IO Chicago в Чикаго.

Занимается импровизацией с 2010 года. Был участником одной из первых московских импров-команд No Brain Theatre.

Окончил актерский курс МШНК (курс Ю. Муравицкого), курс актера театра и мюзикла в «Лаборатории мюзикла» (под руководством Э. Таха и А. Преснова), ДПО в ВШСИ Константина Райкина.

Участвовал в актерских лабораториях в Лос-Анджелесе (курс по методике Сэнфорда Мейзнера) и Нью-Йорке (HB Studio, курс для преподавателей по системе Уты Хаген); принимал участие в актерских мастер-классах в Москве, Нью-Йорке, Лос-Анджелесе и Кракове.
Flavien Reppert
France
mprovising and acting since 1996, he graduated in drama at Conservatoire and in Theatre at the University of Strasbourg and started his professional career in 2004. He studied Improv in France and with some of the best improvisers in the world: Patti Stiles, Rama Nicholas, Wade Jackson, Randy Dixon, Lee White, Jstar Atlanta, Fabio Maccioni, Jim Libby and recently with Lindsay Hailey and Jason Shotts from iO Chicago and never stops learning.

He created a dozen original improv formats with Théâtre de l'Oignon, including short, free and long form. All of their shows merge improv theatre and improv music.
Frédéric Pont
France
French Improviser and artistic director, Frédéric PONT focuses his exploring on physical work, mainly based on clowning and miming. He creates in 2015 "Decibel" and in 2018 "Regardless the crowd…", wordless and musical shows where the bodies universality speaks.

Director of local French companies, He is regularly training and performing in European Festivals.
Дина Майлд
Москва
Актриса, импровизатор с опытом выступлений на международной сцене, радио-ведущая утреннего шоу на Capital FM, основатель Moscow Improv Club, преподаватель драмы и режиссер-постановщик английского музыкального театра MESS.
Jacintha Damström
Finland
Member of the Decibelteam, is a former circus artist and now a classically trained flutist. She started with improv in the three lingual group called IMP from Helsinki, and has been performing as a guest artist around Europe since 2016. Besides improv, Damström teaches also music and circus. She is a singer as well, and performs often as a multi-artist on stage.
Isaac Simon
Netherlands/The US
Improv performer, educator, and overall nerd from Boston currently residing in the Netherlands. He has performed and taught in the US and Europe for over a decade, and is the co-founder of Tag Out Theatre and the Amsterdam Improv Marathon. As a lifelong student of improv in an international context, Isaac's performing and teaching combines organic, freeform play with empathy and finding joy moment to moment. Isaac is committed to the improv community, and is constantly looking to grow the knowledge base in Amsterdam, and inspire others to develop their own ensembles and artistic voices.

Ira Seidenstein
Australia
PhD has worked in over 140 live productions including Cirque du Soleil and Slava's Snowshow. He has worked in 20 Shakespeare projects including 10 plays and 10 projects inspired by Shakespeare such as his "A Girl's Guide to Hamlet" and "The Madness of King Lear".

Tamara Maasdam
Netherlands/Sweden
Tamara fell in love with improv from the very first show she saw in 2007 and has been an active member in the improv community ever since. In 2014 she started teaching for International Theater Stockholm. When teaching you will find her completely sucked into a scene, often physically on the tips of her toes, ultra-focused and ready to coach or encourage when needed. She is good at spotting strengths and weaknesses and aims to push both the individual as the group during every session. As an improviser she has a non-ending curiosity. She wants to explore all different corners of improv and theater. She says yes to every opportunity to learn, both as a teacher and a performer. Over the years she has put shows together ranging from improvised Greek Tragedies to fast pace comedy shows and everything in between.

Stefan Andersson
Sweden
Since Stefan started improvising 13 years ago he has played over a hundred improvised theater shows in his home town of Stockholm as well as in other European cities. He is teaching improv and performs regularly at two different theaters in Stockholm, where he also organizes improv events and works as a communication consultant. Before going into improv he did script theater, but moved on to improv because of the freedom it gives to the improvisers and the connection an improviser can get with the audience.

Noha Mousbah
Sweden
Noha has done scripted and improvised theatre for more than 15 years in Europe, Asia and Africa and regularly performs in three languages. Over the years she has built extensive experience in acting from performing in scripted plays and musicals, improvised comedy, musicals and drama as well as in films, TV shows and voice overs. She is an improviser and teacher at Stockholms Improvisationsteater who also teaches at other theatres in Sweden.

Combining her passion for dramatic theatre with her passion for improvised theatre leads her to want to explore this magical composition further.
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