"I love you, Baby." - improv workshop with Lena Breuer (DEU)
Saturday 21. March at 11:00 - 14:00
Tallinna Rahvaülikool Vanalinna maja
I love you, Baby.
Improv scenes are more captivating to watch when involving two crucial elements: emotions and intimacy. Feeling emotions in improv enables audiences to enjoy a deeper level of performance and comedy. Theatre is all about the relationship between the characters on stage. Still, we see very few intimate relationships being played in improv. Don't we know how to? Are we scared? Afraid maybe of crossing our scene partner's boundaries? Somehow, improvisers from all around the world are getting shy when it comes to real emotions, truthful connections to your partner and a real commitment to your character's feelings. Because it's a little bit scary. And risky. But it’s such a lot of fun!
In this workshop, we will dive deep into our (stage) emotions and learn different techniques to get emotional on stage. We'll find out how to play truthful scenes about love, attraction and relationships. We'll work on trust and truly connecting with your scene partner. By respecting and trusting each other, you'll learn how to work with the tension between you and your stage partner. Because playing emotionally alone is even scarier.
From good old Stanislavsky’s emotional memory to a psychology-based technique called emo-streaming, we will learn tools to perform more emotionally. We will work on our connection with our stage partner. Because playing emotionally alone is even scarier.
Lena Breuer studied acting and journalism and lost her heart to improv 15 years ago.
Today, she is teaching and performing in Germany and all over Europe. She is the artistic director of Impro Köln, one of Germany´s biggest professional improv theaters with over 20 weekly classes and weekly performances. She taught and performed at German and international festivals worldwide and worked with improv superheroes like Keith Johnstone and Patti Stiles, in physical and scripted theatre, camera acting and clowning. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Impro Fest Bielefeld - an international improv festival evolving from the dark pandemic times.
Lena is also working as a professional TV producer for Germany's biggest tv stations like ZDF, WDR, ARD and Arte. She is producing documentaries and reports about political and social topics, working worldwide. Lena has been in many radio shows on German radio – as a host, but also, as a reporter and sidekick.
This is an improv workshop organised by Rahel Otsa Improkool. You can find more information about improv and ways to get connected here: www.improkool.ee/
Tallinna Rahvaülikool Vanalinna maja • Vene tänav 6, 10123 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
