Strange Loops
This workshop is an improvisational theatre project about mothers and fathers, absent or present. Improv theatre is collaborative storytelling. This workshop invites actors, players, writers, designers, musicians, artists, and cinematographers to explore techniques of improvisation, and methods of spatial story design. It introduces the basics of how to perform long-form improv. You will learn how to use "yes-and," playing at the top of your intelligence, how to accept and not block, and how to a create a base reality. We will make objects, dolls, and cardboard settings. We’ll invent games, and explore the concept of finding the ‘Game of The Scene” in long-form improv. We will use our techniques to improvise scenes and take a dip into our collective narrative memory in a playful manner. We are looking into: where are we coming from, as a person and as a collective? What happened that one day when you were nine years old? And why? What else could have happened instead–or maybe not? And how does this individual memory transforms into our collective childhood, our collective memory, into a theatre performance, and gameplay?