FESTIVAALITYÖPAJA (työpajan kieli on englanti)​

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Punk´s Not Dead

Improvisational theater has punk in its veins, punk runs through this theater form by default. From the early beginnings of Commedia Dell’ Arte to today’s abundant worldwide improvisational scene, improvisational theater absolutely ticks the viewpoints of punk mentality. In the workshop we will invite our inner punks to come and play, we will question the established ways of improvising, we will challenge the methods of narrative storytelling and at the same time still try and co-operate in an ensemble. How to give space and how to unapologetically take it? We will create space where you will have the freedom to do what you want as you want, while you still construct a scene with your “band” of improvisers on stage. We will find ways and tools to break rules in order to venture into uncharted territories of creative freedom.​​​

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Sara Šoukal (Slovenia) is a well seasoned theater artist with years of experience. As an actress and as a pedagogue she is most active in the field of theatrical improvisation, for which she says is her first love. She fell in love with improv when she was 9 years old and they have been together ever since. Her improv aesthetic is poetic, physical, dream-like and full of details. Nothing escapes her eye. She tends to break patterns, she challenges herself and others with bold offers that are out of the box. She is determined to put improvisational theater on the map of theater sub genres as an established and recognized performative art. Lately, she has been setting her foot in other performative fields with great joy and interest. She has been flirting with street theater, devised theater, contemporary dance, object theater and clowning. She is one of the most active and prominent improvisers in Slovenia, working also abroad, in many impro collectives, theaters and associations. 

Sara teached and/ or performed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Czech republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.A., etc.

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Workshop will be organized at Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki on Friday, May 23rd from 18-21. There are 14 spots in the workshop. The workshop space is situated on the 3rd floor of the building (no elevator).

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Black and white photo below by Nina Pernat