WORKSHOPS des MOMENT! 2022: 10th International Improv Festival Vienna

Parallel to the MOMENT!-Festival, workshops with the international stars will be held during the day for improv enthusiasts with and without previous experience.

3 hrs WORKSHOP for BEGINNERS

3.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Fees: € 50 / Workshop

A CAPELLALADEEDA
with Christian Frerichs
Friday Oct. 7th, 2022

Your group has no musician but you still want to perform musical improv on stage? You want to experience your improv singing voice in a unique way? You love A Capella music? Well, then come along and let our voices sing, ring and improvise together!
 

AERODYNAMICS OF YES
with Christian Capozzoli
Saturday Oct. 8th, 2022

Get familiar with the Aerodynamics of Yes techniques of improv. This is a course designed to help performers build upon prior improv training. It sets out to create a bedrock foundation for you as a self reliant, team-playing, fun-chasing improviser. This is for improvisers that want a refreshing new slant on the way they play. Learn to advance and expand your ideas and weave them into rewarding scenes and narratives, with pronounced games.
 

SPONTANEITY
with Vid Sodnik
Sunday Oct. 9th, 2022

In this workshop we’ll play together and fail together. Pushing yourself to the edge of your abilities makes it possible to surprise yourself and your partner and that’s where the magic happens. You want your audience to feel that you and your partner are creating everything right in front of their eyes. All the risk-taking and „mistakes“ make it real. We’ll work on different ways and techniques to stay spontaneous and make the scene turn to the unexpected. We’ll try to push ourselves outside our comfort zone, patterns and usual character choices.
 

LISTEN. FOCUS. INSPIRE!
with Rama Nicholas
Monday Oct. 10th, 2022

In this workshop we will explore what it feels like to truly listen and be heard. How our scene-work and team-work can improve exponentially using these 3 simple things – listening, focusing and inspiring. We will explore what it takes to inspire each other by being curious and learning what our scene partner needs. We will be unlocking doors to your creativity you never knew existed and have a lot of fun doing it.

FIGHT FOR NORMALCY
with Andrew Hefler
Tuesday Oct. 11th, 2022

It is often the case that impro actors feel immense pressure to be interesting or funny or weird to make scenes watchable. This is rarely a good approach. Too often in improvised work actors get nervous or overexcited and take things way outside and get downright wacky. This, while liberating, exhilarating or otherwise has the ability to confuse or frustrate viewers and other players ultimately trivializing or leaving the scenes meaningless or worse yet senseless. This course explores and exercises are skill set as actors to dare to be normal, balanced and functional in scenes setting them up for far greater risk and reward while giving the viewer real likeable, believeable characters to pull for. It works through my principle of two actor = 1 beast as the temptation for crazy actions is to magnetise or lure other players to follow suit often leading to mindless dribble. Here through authentic normalcy we are liberated to more truthfully and starkly portray truly risky or odd moments from lives of characters or offbeat people on stage.

3 hrs WORKSHOP for INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED IMPROVISERS

3.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Fees: € 50 / Workshop

BREAKING ROUTINES, MANIAS, OBSESSIONS & EXTREMES
with Andrew Hefler
Thursday Oct. 6th, 2022

If people have inhibitions, fears or social issues off stage they tend to take them on stage too. This is normal, but it does impact some of the variety of choices we make to represent lives on stage. Getting out of your head and getting into broader range of physicalities and voice through exaggerated expressions, gestures and commitment. I will start with your default expressions and features and we will begin to grotesquely aggrandize them, working opposite them, or randomly altering them. Using some of the traditions and techniques from trans mask with the actors face using some of the traditions and techniques from trance mask with your own face as the mask we will begin to coax out other characters that are residing in there. We will cover some of the spectrum. Also looking at new wants to play and minimalistic expressions all the way to the extremes. With these new characters come new wants and convictions and they bring with them the baggage of taboo topics racier themes and even downright bad behavior on stage with consequence. This course will give you tools to get your play out of safer trivial areas into depicting relevant issues, through exciting and unique characters with conviction.
 

TRUTH, EMOTION AND REACTION
with Rama Nicholas
Friday Oct. 7th, 2022

In this masterclass workshop, we will explore stories using truth, emotion and reaction through specialised exercises and grounded, naturalistic scene-work. Working with these themes, we can explore our own personal, dynamic emotional range as improvisers and performers.

We will also be exploring truth through our own personal stories finding connection, trust and shared experience within the group.

There will be an emphasis on slowing down, building trust, really connecting with and listening to your scene partner. Reacting not only to verbal offers but understanding body language and physical offers.

I will help guide the group by directing scenes and giving feedback to help collectively understand what the story needs. We will explore and create juicy, dynamic stories and support each other to make the boldest choices possible. Whether our scene-work is serious or comedic, our aim will be to truly inspire each other and our audience.

5 hrs WORKSHOP for INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED IMPROVISERS

1.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Fees: € 80 / Workshop

TRUTH IN IMPROV
with Naomi Snieckus
Saturday Oct. 8th, 2022

This workshop is for experienced improvisers who want to dive deeper into the art of long form improvised acting. With grounded improv, we will focus on more authentic, truthful acting, characters and relationships to tell stories with not only our words, but the moments between the words.  What stories come out when we slow down, look at our scene partner and breath?
 

ENSEMBLE PLAY
with Christian Capozzoli
Sunday Oct. 9th, 2022

Cut through the chaos of group scenes to create clarity, confidence and power. The Ensemble play workshop is rooted in celebration. Learn to rejoice and support bold choices with split second agreement and attack. Play lean, so scenes are always in a state of being or becoming, moving from a solid to a liquid to a boil of tension, action and dynamism. Push past fear and judgement and give over to the group to create a culture of yes where even the most ordinary choices can become extraordinary scenes.

3-day WORKSHOP for ADVANCED IMPROVISERS

SCHNITTSTELLE – The International Showcase Ensemble

TAG and Nadine Antler will cast a group of advanced players who’ll have the possibility to train with Nadine Antler during the MOMENT! Festival 2022 and perform WAKING UP on stage on Saturday Oct. 8th, 2022.

When we observe people on the street, on the bus, in waiting rooms, we often know intuitively what their relationship is like, whether there is an argument in the air, whether there is the greatest familiarity or whether the person sitting in front of us has just fallen in love. In most cases, we don’t even need to understand what words are being exchanged. We are masters at reading between the lines.

But how is it that this ability often evaporates on stage? We create artificial situations, miss important body language and vocal cues, and often intellectually concoct a story that we laboriously agree upon.

This workshop is about learning and trying out techniques to get out of the head and into the emotional relationship, from producing to reacting, from the „good idea“ to the authentic emotional response. This workshop is a training to hear the unsaid, to be with yourself and with your partner and to create true relationships on stage. With truthful listening and authentic re-acting, the scenes unfold effortlessly in front of us.

Oct. 6th – 8th, 2022

Fee: € 190

Training Sessions:
Thursday Oct. 6th, 2022, 11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Friday Oct. 7th, 2022, 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Saturday Oct. 8th, 2022, 10.00 am – 3.00 pm

Exclusive Special!

TAG and superstar Rama Nicholas offer an exclusive additional workshop the weekend after the MOMENT!-Festival:

CLOSE TO YOU
Saturday 15. October 2022, 10 am – 4 pm
Sunday 16. October 2022, 10 am – 4 pm

Fees: € 250 / 220 reduced fee
Level: advanced (at least one year experience)

All the details and application: WORKSHOP CLOSE TO YOU

DISCOUNTS

If you apply for more than one Workshop you’ll get a discount!

Classic Workshops
2 Workshops: -5% discount on the total price
3 Workshops: -10% discount on the total price
4 Workshops: -15% discount on the total price
5 Workshops: -20% discount on the total price

3-day Workshop SCHNITTSTELLE – The International Showcase Ensemble
plus 1 Classic Workshop: -0% discount on the total price
plus 2 Classic Workshops: -5% discount on the total price
plus 3 Classic Workshops: -10% discount on the total price
plus 4 Classic Workshops: -15% discount on the total price
plus 5 Classic Workshops: -20% discount on the total price