Improvisually Speaking
Improvisually Speaking
26 FEB 2024
with Sara de Sable
5 week course
Get out of your head and into the group mind, where hidden treasure awaits!
Mondays 26 February to 25 March 2024
19:00 to 22.00Rue de la Victoire 158, 1060 St Gilles
€150 for the course (5 weeks)
€135 for university students, jobseekers and people under 28 (Use CONC15 at checkout)
Improvisually Speaking challenges you to dive into a world where the stage is a canvas and the improvisers are the artists who create a visual feast to inspire characters and scenes. Drawings, paint, textile, sound and our own bodies will all be seen as inspiration to create stories, as we embark on a journey across different media.
Improvisational theater can be a very artistic and an aesthetic visual form of art, if you know where to look. Improvisually Speaking is a new concept for a long form format that combines visual and artistic elements with improvisational play. Sara is keen to develop this new format with an experienced group of enthusiastic improvisers.
During the 5 Mondays of this Bubble Sara will offer the group tools to get inspired by two- and three dimensional art, their own body and by sound. The goal is to offer different, more organic, ways to discover characters and find stories together, rather than invent them.
Improvisually Speaking will focus mostly on visual, dynamic and physical elements, less on words and dialogue.
The aim is to get out of your head and into the group mind where treasure awaits!
At the beginning of December 2023, Sara hosted an Improvisually Speaking LAB through ImproBubble, exploring this format with a group of experienced improvisers for the first time. The Bubble will start with the same basics from the LAB, but will also dive deeper in the many possibilities of this way of working.
If you're not convinced yet, here's some of what the people who participated in the Lab have to say about it:
"This workshop was a wonderful way to connect with other improvisors in a unique way. It felt as if we became one in time and space and there was an invisible thread connecting us all, trusting that we would be led into a surprising and special place where anything was possible. I found myself joyfully connected with stories just waiting to be told!"
- Tom
"It's a great playground where you learn about yourself and your connection to others while having loads of fun. Human relationships, hearts and spontaneity take the spotlight, leaving the brains in the shadows. It's a beautiful and sincere experience for people tired of the improv that takes place in kitchens." - Sylvain
"Sara takes you on 2 journeys. One within yourself where you wonderfully disconnect from thoughts and live out your intuitions through movement, dance, sound, art and so much more. And one where you and your fellow players tune in to what is happening in the moment. It is inspiring and broadens your improv experience as a player. No, it's not therapy, but a bit therapeutic."
- Koen
"Leave your brain at home and jump into this new experience. Isn't it exhausting having to use words all the time? Let yourself be carried away by the unknown. It's impossible to predict the many unexpected emotions you will encounter on this journey. My personal advice: trust your instincts and your travel companions. It's your turn, enjoy it." - Irene
"Get ready to quiet your mind, rely solely on instinct, and connect with the group. Trust me, that's when the magic happens. Be ready to surprise yourself” - Alfy
What you’ll learn
To get out of your head
To find inspiration in visual, physical and auditive elements for scenes and characters
To surprise yourself and others
To find ideas together, rather than inventing them by yourself
To tap into your playful self and let go
To work as a group, and what it means to find that elusive ‘hive mind'‘
Who this is for
This is one of our Bubbles. These courses are intended for improvisers who already have an understanding of the basics, perhaps (but not necessarily) through our own Starting Steps courses and then have taken some other basic intermediate courses too, to have strong foundational skills. If you’re wondering which course is right for you, then feel free to email us.
This particular course is suitable for intermediate and advanced improvisers.
About the teacher
Sara de Sable
Sara de Sable is a Dutch/English theatrical improviser, writer and community artist living and working in Brussels.
She studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, but always experimented with the performative elements of visual arts, and with her own body as visual material. She is a professionally active improviser in and around Brussels, and teaches improv and art in the socio-artistic sector.
She's also part of writers collective De Letteristen in Ostend.
Sara is part of several improv teams and shows, teaches at Improbubble, and also often hosts improv jams.
She has an improv duo show with a local musician, called SPLONK!, where an exchange between sound, music and visual art and the audience's input are the focus. Sara has made several visual site-specific/interactive installations in public space over the last thirteen years. She also teaches improv to youngsters, kids, and people who are learning Dutch.
With a love of authentic, quirky and vulnerable improv, she is not afraid to show herself on stage and invite you into her universe.