Movement

Dive into the fascinating world of your body!

With targeted exercises, you will learn to know your body much better and to expand your movement vocabulary. Through playful partner games and body puzzles, you will explore the subtle facets of your body. You will learn to perceive your body in a better way and use it more consciously.

The body puzzles will challenge and inspire you to explore new movement possibilities. In a supportive environment, you will creatively unfold and strengthen your self-confidence in physical expression.

This workshop offers you the opportunity to connect with your body, appreciate it, and improvise in harmony with it. We create an atmosphere of exchange and mindfulness, where you can expand your body awareness in a playful and vibrant way. Together, we will uncover the potential of our bodies and find new ways to express ourselves through movement.
No prior experience is required – whether you already have experience with bodywork or are just embarking on this journey, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to develop more body awareness.

 

Instructor:

Nikolai Pawlas (Hamburg, DE)

 

Level: all Levels

 

It is a half-day-workshop:
On Friday: 10.00 am – 12.30 pm

 

Fee: 50,- Euro (tax included)

Tools for physical theatre

In our daily lives, our bodies are the first tool of communication we use: on the street, in the bus, in a shop. Even in the absence of words, we are able to interact with others and pick up on their emotions. Our bodies are able to convey messages before we even speak. While words can be used to deceive, our bodies can’t lie.

Physical theatre is a form of theatre that prioritizes the use of body as a primary storytelling tool, rather than relying just on words. Jacques Lecoq and E. Decroux were two important theatre educators who were interested in exploring the possibilities of the body for the stage. During the workshop, Andres will explore some exercises drawn from their work as well as the technique of mask theatre together with his participants.

Through various exercises and games you will explore tools such as: energy, breath, focus, action – reaction. This tools will help you to bring movement, posture and gesture on the first line and give your performance deepness and believability.

This workshop aims to provide some instruments to help you use your body to create characters, situations and narratives without relying on words. It is not about showing but about letting it be seen.

 

 

Instructor: Andres Angulo (Bogotá, CO)

Level: Level 3

It is a three-day workshop (12 hours of workshop):
Friday: 2.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Saturday: 10.30 am – 1.30 pm & 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Sunday: 10.30 am – 1.30 pm 

Fee: 240,- Euro (tax included)

 

SourceWork

SourceWork and ViewPoints are systems of experiences that train up all the different aspects of a performer and enables the artist to deepen their ability to interpret and animate their roles. The main thrust of the work is preparing the performer to ‘enter the image’. This image can be understood as the end product of a personal impulse either from your inner or outer worlds.

In our life we are constantly using images to reference our lives. While we are keeping track of our outer world through our 5 senses we are also assessing responses within that become thoughts, feelings and ideas. When we are telling stories from our day or reminiscing, we are recalling these images and using text and gestures to describe these images.

In all the body disciplines listening is one of the most important aspects of the performer’s toolkit. As the body relaxes, listening improves and authentic personal responses are revealed. These responses are either repressed or expressed through movement and/or text.

The workshop will be divided into 2 sections:

  1. the internal, personal response to our impulses (solo work)
  2. responding to the outer world of each other and the space (influenced)  

Join us to explore and experiment together, deepening your  performing experience with timeless skills learned through the curriculums of SourceWork and ViewPoints.

 

Direction:

Fiona Griffiths (Toronto, CA)

 

Level:

Level 4

 

It is a three-day workshop:

 

Friday: 10.30 am – 12.30pm & 2.00 pm – 5.30 pm 

Saturday: 10.30 am – 1.30 pm & 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm

Sunday: 10.30 am – 1.30 pm 

 

Price: 270,- Euro (tax included)

11th TÖRN Cup – Der Hamburger Maestro™

In the TÖRN Cup, your favorite players from Hamburg as well as improv newcomers and guests from all over Germany will compete in a hot, emotionally charged competition. There they will be randomly thrown together in different combinations and have to prove themselves in a gripping thriller, a love ballad or an improvised horror film. Will the players of the evening play their hearts out or play their hearts out?

It is up to the audience to decide who has done the best. And this decision is not always the easiest, because only one*r can qualify at the end of the evening for the championship title and take home fame and honor, but especially the coveted 5-euro bill.

The special: Immediately before the show, there will be a free impro workshop, for which you can register in advance. With a bit of luck, participants will have the chance to try out what they have learned on stage directly afterwards and perform at the TÖRN Cup. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, everyone is welcome! Since the number of participants is limited, it is advisable to register in advance at maestro@improfestival-hamburg.de! The workshop will take place from 5 – 7pm at the Motte.

 

Where?
Motte
Rothestrasse 48, 22765 Hamburg

When?
Friday, 06.10.2023
Start: 20.00

Normal price: 10 Euro

Cultural support: 12 Euro

 

 

Ticket link will follow soon!

 

Maestro Impro was created by Keith Johnstone, TM & Copyright 1970-2022
All Rights Reserved
Exclusively licensed by International Theatresports Institute

Move – nonverbal improvisation

As an improviser, our body is the only tool we always have with us.

We put our body (filled with our ideas and stories) on stage, but immediately we open our mouths for dialogues, monologues, heated word fights and deep discussions. We forget our great powerful tool – the body.

What happens when you rely only on your body and simply do without spoken words? Let your body speak! Let the body have all the discussions, with the audience, your playing partners, the world!

This workshop is about telling stories – only with your body.

Together we will have physical dialogues. Your body tells the monologue. We will find out, what your body can do physically and what kind of images, emotions, spaces, figures and stories, we want to discover and try out together.

 

Instructor:

Anne Rab (Vienna, AT)

 

It is a three-day workshop:
(with a total of 12 workshop-hours)
Friday: 2.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Saturday: 10.30 am – 1.30 pm & 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Sunday: 10.30 am – 1.30 pm 

 

Fee: 240,- Euro (VAT included)

12th TÖRN Cup – Der Hamburger Maestro™

In the TÖRN Cup, your favorite players from Hamburg as well as improv newcomers and guests from all over Germany will compete in a hot, emotionally charged competition. There they will be randomly thrown together in different combinations and have to prove themselves in a gripping thriller, a love ballad or an improvised horror film. Will the players of the evening play their hearts out or play their hearts out?

It is up to the audience to decide who has done the best. And this decision is not always the easiest, because only one*r can qualify at the end of the evening for the championship title and take home fame and honor, but especially the coveted 5-euro bill.

The special: Immediately before the show, there will be a free impro workshop, for which you can register in advance. With a bit of luck, participants will have the chance to try out what they have learned on stage directly afterwards and perform at the TÖRN Cup. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, everyone is welcome! Since the number of participants is limited, it is advisable to register in advance at maestro@improfestival-hamburg.de! The workshop will take place from 5-7pm at the Motte.

 

Where?
Motte
Rothestrasse 48, 22765 Hamburg

When?
Friday, 03.11.2023
Start: 20.00

Normal price: 10 Euro

Cultural support: 12 Euro

 

 

Ticket link will follow soon!

 

Maestro Impro was created by Keith Johnstone, TM & Copyright 1970-2022
All Rights Reserved
Exclusively licensed by International Theatresports Institute

13th TÖRN Cup – Der Hamburger Maestro™

In the TÖRN Cup, your favorite players from Hamburg as well as improv newcomers and guests from all over Germany will compete in a hot, emotionally charged competition. There they will be randomly thrown together in different combinations and have to prove themselves in a gripping thriller, a love ballad or an improvised horror film. Will the players of the evening play their hearts out or play their hearts out?

It is up to the audience to decide who has done the best. And this decision is not always the easiest, because only one*r can qualify at the end of the evening for the championship title and take home fame and honor, but especially the coveted 5-euro bill.

The special: Immediately before the show, there will be a free impro workshop, for which you can register in advance. With a bit of luck, participants will have the chance to try out what they have learned on stage directly afterwards and perform at the TÖRN Cup. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, everyone is welcome! Since the number of participants is limited, it is advisable to register in advance at maestro@improfestival-hamburg.de! The workshop will take place from 5-7pm at the Motte.

 

Where?
Motte
Rothestrasse 48, 22765 Hamburg

When?
Friday, 01.12.2023
Start: 20.00

Normal price: 10 Euro

Cultural support: 12 Euro

 

Ticket link will follow soon!

 

Maestro Impro was created by Keith Johnstone, TM & Copyright 1970-2022
All Rights Reserved
Exclusively licensed by International Theatresports Institute

Motte

Rothestraße 48

22765 Hamburg

www.diemotte.de

Why should I start an improvised scene positively?

Reason 1: Retraining impulses
From my experience, most people tend to react defensively or pejoratively under stress in order to protect themselves. As a result, 90 percent of all scenes begin negatively with impro newcomers (and not just with those). In part, the negativity is hidden, it’s little things that are wrong, that you or my partner are not doing right. “You are late.” is a much more common phrase than “Great, you’re here at just the right time.”

So when we start improvisational theatre, there are impulses that we have to “retrain”. To have a plan and not to let yourself be distracted from it can be very helpful in everyday life. For improvisation on stage it is rather uninteresting. To ask questions to people can signal great interest in my fellow human beings outside the stage, but on stage it very often shows insecurity. Because: We tend to ask for information in order to hand over responsibility to the other person. A similar impulse is the initial negativity. To protect ourselves, quite useful in everyday life, but problematic for the stage. Why?


Reason 2: The creative process

When we create a scene/story/situation together, we make ourselves vulnerable. I give an idea and with it a piece of me, and when my partner goes into it, we are in the middle of being creative together. If I now – subliminally or openly – always (re-)act negatively and critically, my counterpart gets the feeling that his/her ideas are not good enough. And automatically the other person suddenly feels uncreative. (An experiment, which by the way can be done quite easily).

Therefore: Being positive relieves my fellow players and helps the creative engine to get going.


Reason 3: Raising the stakes

Saturday night. At the club. All evening long I’ve been watching an attractive man with a stunning smile at the other end of the room.

Scenario 1: I dare to approach him and tell him that I can’t take my eyes off him and that I find him incredibly attractive. – He beams at me, answers me: “Wow, that’s great that you’re talking to me. Can I buy you a beer?” We were both positive.
The beginning of a story about you and me.

Scenario 2: I dare to approach him and tell him that I can’t take my eyes off him and that I find him incredibly attractive. – He laughs out loud and answers, that he doesn’t need to hear this from someone like me, then turns to his buddies to tell them how pityful I am to talk to him so clumsily. I was positive. He was negative.
The beginning of my story.

Scenario 3: I dare to approach him. I get cold feet on the way there, so when I get there I just say: “Hey you, I just wanted to tell you that your shirt is not buttoned up properly. – He replies, “Why don’t you mind your own business?” We were both negative.
End of story.

As soon as (at least) one character on stage behaves positively, he or she raises the stakes. If you make yourself vulnerable then there is something important to you. On the one hand, this makes you sympathetic and thus suitable for the audience to identify with, on the other hand it becomes easier to let something happen to your character and thus tell a story.

(But aren’t there also improv schools where people are taught to start in the middle of a conflict? Is that “wrong” then? – No. But that would go beyond the scope here…)

Nadine Antler