APPLYING KEITH JOHNSTONE'S METHODS TO IMPROVISED PERFORMANCE
IMPRO WITH PATTI STILES AND STEEN HAAKON HANSEN
Expand your improvisation knowledge, increase your skills and techniques and challenge yourself with this unique workshop opportunity - learning ways how to use the techniques.
An eight day workshop focused on performance creation using Keith Johnstone’s improvisation techniques for acting awareness and character development and it’s influence and potential in dynamic story creation, taught by two of the finest teachers and experts within the field of improvisation Patti Stiles and Steen Haakon Hansen.
Patti and Steen have over 70 years of combined experience working with Keith Johnstone.
Patti trained with Keith at the ground breaking Loose Moose Theatre Company in Canada and Steen taught along side Keith at the Danish Theatre School. Together they bring their understanding of Keith’s techniques and philosophies mixed with their own vast and varied performance careers to create this unique and dynamic workshop experience which will extend the individuals personal performing skills and challenge the concepts of what is understood to be modern-day improvisation and it’s place on stage.
The workshop is rooted in Keith Johnstone’s games, exercises and techniques bringing them and the understanding of this work to life.
You will be introduced to training in how to let the techniques emerge and be used when needed.
The purpose of the training is to give your unconsciousness better tools and skills to work with. And to find and create new tools and skills when needed.
You will experience that very often a response without words are much stronger than words, and how to select actions and adjectives, when it is called for. Learn how to see and use the information value of images.
You will realize that you have to acquire tools that are so simple and few that you can find them at all times and use them with an instant warning. And that you have to learn how to use them, in creating improvised performance.
The workshop will be diveded into approx. 3 days of intensive training with each Steen and Patti, and approx. 2 days where Steen and Patti will collaborate.