Acting for Improvisers
Acting for Improvisers
1 MAR 2023
with Gabriel Soler
4 week course
Take your artistic interpretation to the next level!
Wednesdays 1 to 22 March
19:00 to 21:00Rue de la Tulipe 54, 1050 Brussels
€130 for the course (4 weeks)
In improv you learn about listening, 'yes and', spontaneity and more, but there is a whole world of other skills from professional acting that can vastly improve your performance.
You may not be able to do an entire drama school program, so instead we’ve asked the talented Gabriel Soler to give us a crash course in the tools from drama school, applied to improv.
In this course, you will learn how to warm up and use your physicality, the stage and the objects on scene, as well as work on your overall stage presence, each one of them a powerful tool to get into the emotion, our major acting goal.
The aim will be to enable improvisers to have a truthful connection on stage and to be open and vulnerable, whilst keeping the dexterity and skill needed to put on a professional looking show.
This will be a very physical course, so make sure you bring comfortable clothes or even a change of clothes.
What you’ll learn
The difference between getting into the emotion from the body or from the intellect
Meisner Technique
Mask Work
Drama School techniques to heighten our artistic interpretation
Who this is for
This is one of our Bubbles. These courses are intended for improvisers who already have an understanding of the basics, perhaps (but not necessarily) though our own Starting Steps courses. If you’re wondering which course is right for you, then feel free to email us.
This particular course’s focus is a must for every improviser, as it relates to one of the most crucial areas for improvisers’ growth and one that makes a huge difference in the audience’s enjoyment and investment in the characters they see onstage.
About the teacher
Gabriel Soler
Gabriel Soler is a Spanish actor born in Valencia, Spain. Now a resident in Brussels, Gabriel is an international full-time actor working for international tv shows, films and theatre (check out his IMDB profile here).
He graduated in physical and objects theater by the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. He continued his research in physical acting in MOVEO (International School of Corporeal Mime of Barcelona). He then went to France where he specialised with Thomas Leabhart followed by London with l’Ange Fou mime company. He has worked in Spain, France, Belgium and Greece, where he led courses of physical expression and mime in the University of Peloponnese. He creates his own performances as well as work for another companies; whether it may be as actor; in shows such as “RIP” and “Esta linda la mar” (winners of the Audience Prize in the XIV and XVII Mostra de Teatre de Barcelona) and as physical actor in shows like "Skyline, it's up there!" and "No Matarás".
Gabriel can next be seen on different tv shows as Netflix show 'The Letter for the King', France TV show The Parlement. He is also featured in 'Broken' a short which will premiere at the Brussels Short Film Festival: http://bsff.be/en/programme/20... and Yibril, winner of the Leuven short film festival. In 2023 Gabriel will be shooting Le Passage, a belgin-spanish coporduction feature film among other projects.