A day long improvisation workshop. Instantaneous composition using movement, voice, language and the moment. Find fun, flow and imagination.

I am excited to welcome you to this daylong improvisation workshop in Glasgow's West End.

Come and join us for a day of creative discovery at The Art of Improvisation workshop. Playful and welcoming, this workshop aims to help you discover ease, imagination and presence in performance.

You'll be taught key exercises from Action Theater™, a physical improvisation training in movement, voice and language. A dynamic pathway for opening the body's imagination, Action Theater™ has been used by actors, dancers, musicians, poets and those who want to expand their creative potential. You will work with movement, voice and narrative, deepening awareness, expanding your palette of expression and encountering your imagination afresh.

This event is the first in a series of Saturday workshops.

The creative focus for December's workshop: EARTH

To improvise is to be in a process of continual transformation. We will spend time uncovering the gifts of earth as element. Through simple somatic exercises we will explore the ways we can connect with body and breath to feel more 'earthed', finding balance and ease as we improvise. We shall discover how moving from our centre fosters a deeper connection to ourselves and the ground beneath our feet, embedding a greater sense of trust and belonging. We will examine how the quality of earth informs our performative decisions and consider ways the body is a vessel for gathering and processing feeling states, as we shift and transform through the worlds of our collective imagination.

Get ready to encounter your imagination afresh. I hope you can join us!

ABOUT REBECCA:

Rebecca Mackenzie is a novelist, performer and teacher of Action Theater™ currently residing near Glasgow where she recently completed a PhD in Creative Practice. Her debut novel IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS, was a Red Magazine Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. She teaches improvisation in both the UK and Europe. She has been a visiting tutor on the Royal Holloway Creative Writing MA and The Place Dance BA as well as led innovative trainings for Chisenhale Dance and Independent Dance.

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