I'm All Ears
I'm All Ears
9 MAY 2024
with Sara de Sable
4 week course
Improv(e) your own improv soundtrack
Thursdays 9 May to 6 June 2024 (NB no class on 23 May)
19:00 to 22.00
Rue de la Victoire 158, 1060 St Gilles
€125 for the course (4 weeks)
€110 for university students, jobseekers and people under 28 (Use CONC15 at checkout)
In this mini bubble Sara will offer you tools to create the perfect score and sound effects to elevate your performance to another level, without having to master the piano!
If we think of the sound and music that go with improv, we usually think of a pianist accompanying a show, however there are other avenues to explore.
In this mini bubble we will work on:
- Sounds from the wings to support the scene: how to use your voice and body collaboratively to create a world on stage with just sounds.
- The perfect improv playlist on spotify: creating a useful and diverse playlist to support many different situations on stage, with exercises on how to improvise on/with existing music.
- How to improvise in collaboration with a musical improviser: How can we inspire each other, rather than just asking a musician to be present and play in the background of your show?
What you’ll learn
To explore how sound can be a powerful tool to inspire a certain atmosphere on stage and set the scene
To try out different ways of using sounds and music to help create a world and influence characters
How to have your own tools ready to accompany your show with sound when a musician is not readily available
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) through our own Starting Steps courses and then have taken some other basic intermediate courses too, to have strong foundational skills. If you’re wondering which course is right for you, then feel free to email us.
This particular course is suitable for intermediate and advanced improvisers and we particularly welcome performers who are in a troupe or forming one. Or any improvisers working on a show- this will turbocharge your production values!
About the teacher
Sara de Sable
Sara de Sable is a Dutch/English theatrical improviser, writer and community artist living and working in Brussels.
She studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, but always experimented with the performative elements of visual arts, and with her own body as visual material. She is a professionally active improviser in and around Brussels, and teaches improv and art in the socio-artistic sector.
She's also part of writers collective De Letteristen in Ostend.
Sara is part of several improv teams and shows, teaches at Improbubble, and also often hosts improv jams.
She has an improv duo show with a local musician, called SPLONK!, where an exchange between sound, music and visual art and the audience's input are the focus. Sara has made several visual site-specific/interactive installations in public space over the last thirteen years. She also teaches improv to youngsters, kids, and people who are learning Dutch.
With a love of authentic, quirky and vulnerable improv, she is not afraid to show herself on stage and invite you into her universe.