PROFESSIONALS ONLY!
In improvisational theatre, maintaining a strong and grounded connection to reality is a fundamental skill that allows the actor to be authentic, present, and believable on stage. Sometimes, even experienced improvisers drift away from this quality. This happens often not because of a lack of skill, but at the opposite, because of an over-reliance on narrative skill, performance energy, or the good old commitment to “make the scene work”
In highly experienced performers, this can take the form of:
– prioritizing clever or entertaining story development over truthful reaction
– overusing agreement and construction at the expense of inner truth
– pushing for significance, meaning, or dramatic impact too early
– “performing” emotions rather than actually inhabiting them
– shaping the scene instead of letting it emerge moment by moment
The scenes resulting from that are often technically strong, fast, and entertaining (hopefully) but maybe slightly detached from the lived reality.
Everything works, and yet something essential is missing: the sense of real time, real consequence, and real emotional necessity.
“Sense of Reality” is an attempt to return to that missing layer. It is based on a few essential principles:
– the ability to observe and self-observe while building the narration
– the capacity to remain within an emotional state without escaping or embellishing it
– the ability to let perception crystallize into a clear internal decision
– the execution of actions that are precise and appropriate to the real impulse of the moment.
Focus
The work in this workshop is not about generating more ideas or improving narrative complexity.
It is about slowing down internal processes in order to restore causality between perception, emotion, decision, and action.
We will work on the transition between “knowing what is happening” and “actually letting it happen”, reducing the gap between impulse and expression.
We will try to perform while tapping on our meditative brain energy.
The aim is to recover a state in which improvisation is not constructed, but discovered in real time through attention, emotional continuity, and grounded action.
Intention
In this laboratory, we will take the time to refine a more authentic way of being on stage and interacting with others, one in which scenes are not “performed correctly,” but lived with clarity, precision and real presence, even for highly experienced improvisers who are used to driving story and maintaining control of the stage.
Instructor:
Antonio Vulpio (Italy)
It is a three-day workshop:
(with a total of 11 workshop-hours)
Friday: 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Saturday: 11.00 am – 5.00 pm (one 60 minute lunch break incl.)
Sunday: 11.00 am – 2.00 pm
Fee: 275,- euros (VAT included)
