Deconstructing stereotypes

Through theatrical improvisation tools, we will work on the analysis of stereotypes, their visibility, and the possibilities of creating characters from other places. We will open a space to share impressions, focusing on internalized body learning.

We will connect body-mind-emotion. We depart from a social model in which creativity is usually limited to expressing what we think but rarely what we feel and how our body expresses it.

When we work with learning incorporated into the body in an improvised way, we leave our mental zone for a while, which is the one we use most of the time because it is more comfortable to search for answers. With this approach, we add what we have learned since we were born and we didn't even know that we have inside.

We will check through improvised scenes the consequences of growing up in an unequal system, favoring the creation of inclusive proposals. Without blame but with commitments to change.

This collaborative work takes us away from individualism and personal opinions to acquire a comprehensive vision of the possibility of more egalitarian systems.

IF YOU DO IMPROV, WILL YOU BECOME A BETTER PERSON OR WILL YOU CHANGE THE WORLD? MAYBE NOT. BUT YOU WILL HAVE FUN TRYING IT.

For anyone with an interest in exploring themselves and their environment in terms of what social mandates and oppressions mean to us through improv dynamics.

No prior improvisational or theatrical experience is necessary.

Carla Vigara is a TV scriptwriter, actress and improviser. She improvises in her company's own formats, WIT (Los Gilipollas, Noches de Cinemascope, Newsflash), at El Club de la Impro and is also part of the regular cast of Impro-Cañí at La Casa de los Jacintos (emblematic cradle of theatre improv in Madrid, Spain). She has performed in well known theaters such as Maravillas, Arenal, Umbral de la Primavera or Microteatro por Dinero and at international festivals in the Philippines, Finland and Portugal.

Creator of the first Degree in Applied Improvisation in a Spanish university and president of the International Congress of the AIN (Applied Improvisation Network) in Spain that will take place in July 2022. She teaches improvisation theater classes as well as improvisation workshops applied to communication, conflict resolution, bullying, adaptation to change, creativity, leadership and giving and receiving feedback for business companies and private individuals.

The workshop is lead by Carla Vigara and Ana Cob.