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Getting start(l)ed
Seminar on how to set up a theatre company
Following the success experienced by Imploding Fictions' during the first year of our existence, we now offer talks on how to set up your own company. In addition to some practical advice on how to navigate your way through the jungle of legal status, fundraising, application writing and promotion (as well as the potential gaping hellpit of dealing with rights holders), we also share from our personal experiences, and might illustrate our point with an anecdote or two.
These talks are aimed at graduating students from drama colleges or universities with theatre studies, performance studies or related fields. If you are interested in Getting Start(l)ed, you can contact us on improfilm@hotmail.com.
Drama, impro, text
Our drama and improvisation workshops can be taylored to suit a selection of different contexts. We run workshops for both adults and children, professionals and amateurs. Through the selection of games and excercises we use, we can offer workshops with a diverse variety of approaches, aims and outcomes. Examples of workshops include:
Say no more
Language does not need to be a barrier. Focusing on physicality and simple games, this series of drama workshops is produced specifically for a program aimed at teachers and children in Iran and Aserbadjan. The workshop can of course be adapted to any context, and is a perfect way to break the language barrier.
I spy with my little eye...
Using improvisation and text-framing excercises to generate text for performance; dramatic or post-dramatic, theatrical or poetic, factual or mendacious - or something else all together...
Team Building through Theatre Sports™
This workshop is aimed at corporations, organisations or indeed any group of people who are faced with each other on a daily basis under un-creative circumstances. Building on Keith Johnstone's Theatre Sports™ techniques, this evening you and your office comrades will be divided into teams, facing each other in a fierce dramatic impro-battle. You will compete in a selection of bizarre excercises, including 'The big bar brawl', 'Gibrish slagging match', 'Dead in one minute' and the dreaded 'Countdown'... The madder the tomfoolery and sillier the solutions, the more points your comrades (acting as jury once off stage) will award you. So the best thing to do is let it all hang loose.
Through hilarious games and excercises and the craziest of competitions, this team building workshop gets people to interact and communicate in new ways, building new layers of trust and comradeship. The perfect way to end a seminar weekend or to kick off the office party!
An Other Fairytale
Globalization is not only a meeting between nations, peoples and political systems, it is a meeting between ancient cultures, regional history, memories and backgrounds. Every country has its own reservoir of stories, myths and fairytales that live in us and shape us, as part of our background. But what happens when these stories meet? When the fable worlds of all these different legends suddenly are made to exist in the same time and space? A new world is emerging, where Hercules conquers Norwegian trolls, and Little Red Riding Hood has deep conversations with Persephone.
This workshop was first run at the BITEF festival in Serbia 2007.
ImproFilm Workshops
ImproFilm combines improvisation and filmmaking, focusing on collaboration and creativity in the making of site-specific short films. Participants get a chance to be both in front of and behind the camera. Sometimes we draw inspiration from a text or a piece of music, but our main source of stimulation is the place we are in; the idiosyncratic features of for example an old mansion, a gritty urban back alley or a beautiful park offers very different possibilities. When we set out to shoot a short film in a couple of hours, the genre and style is rarely pre-determined but depends on the participants and the location. We might end up making comedy, silent film, music video, ghost stories, crime stories, drama or video art. We start by brainstorming, and depending on how much time we have got we sometimes make a rough storyboard, or we just start shooting and improvise on the spot. With large groups, we do the editing after the workshop, whilst with small groups the editing can be part of the learning process. All participants always get a DVD with the film they have made.
ImproFilm workshops can be tailored to suit all age ranges and situations and are perfect as a hands on introduction to filmmaking, or as a team building exercise, for example for corporate events. The workshops are ideal for those who find the thought of filmmaking complicated or daunting. And above all - it is great fun!
If you are interested in booking an ImproFilm workshop, or want more information about the ImproFilm sessions, you can contact us here or email improfilm@hotmail.com.
The ImproFilm name covers our film workshops as well as most of the other film projects we undertake. Several of our short films have been made using an ImproFilm approach. See some excerpts of our work at http://www.youtube.com/improfilm.
Let us know if you want a workshop taylormade for your event, and we will see what we can do! You can contact us on improfilm@hotmail.com.
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