Thursday, 24 April | 10:00 - 13:00 @ The Improv Hub

Capoeira is a clever and rebellious style of fight and dance from Africa/Brazil that, today, is also gathering people who just want to play it. Yes, there is a game to be played inside the circle and it only happens because of the connection with the people around. In this workshop, we use some principles of capoeira that can directly help our improvisation. It is the capoeira mindset for impro, and the mind is the body. We will work on the "spring" body quality of "ginga" used in capoeira to be more available on stage. It is a quality that allows us to expand and retract (like a spring), making us ready to give an offer and receive an offer at the same time (sounds like Impro already). It is a great way to feel words as movement and as part of the musicality on stage. This musicality is also explored by the group on the "sidelines", in our case, on the circle. Presence, group rhythm, ensemble connection, trust, and physicality, all at once: an opportunity to be playful with the risk.

⚫︎ ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Luana Proença is a Brazilian artist and teacher, who graduated in Acting with Masters in Arts, with a Specialization in Cultural Management. She studies and develops works with Improvisation, Physical Theater, Viewpoints, Cinema and Scripts. Luana taught theater in free courses and at College in Brazil. She performed and taught at festivals and events in Brazil, Portugal, the USA, Greece, Spain, Austria, Bulgaria, North Ireland, Australia, Sweden, and Italy. She published the books "Our Direction at Stake: Directing is also part of Improvising", "Essays on Improv" with The SIN Network, and "Have you ever wondered if...? Questions to Teach Impro" with the Pedagogical Feminist Laboratory La Otra Escena. She is the filmmaker of the Impro documentary "It Was Necessary to Listen to Other Voices". She teaches and coordinates the courses and the international department of Teatro dos Ventos in Brasília, Brazil.