What you'll learn

"How can we be fully aware of what we create while we are creating? How can we let ourselves be in the flow at the same time that we make active choices? Using the Viewpoints System from Anne Bogart and Tina Landau (USA), we will find tools for Improv performances to help us with simple things such as remembering where improvised objects are, to more deep issues of movement and presence in the scene. Yes and will never be the same.

Skills learned in this workshop: Awareness, improv flow, and choice. The use of space and time as partners on stage. Basic Viewpoints (Space and Time) and how to use this system in an Improv scene and training."

About the teacher

"Luana Proença is a Brazilian artist who graduated in Acting, with a specialization in Cultural Management, and a Master's in Arts. She had her own Theater and Producer School in Brazil from 2008 to 2016, and she was a College teacher in Directing and Acting from 2014 to 2017. She is a member of the Brazilian groups Novos Candangos and Saída Sul with. She moved to Lisbon in September 2018 in order to begin her Ph.D. studies continuing her research in Improv. Her Master’s work was a proposal applied for Improv Training using Sports, Viewpoints Techniques, and Improv Games. In 2018 she started the project “Visando Impro” that had as an artistic result the Improv Documentary ""It was necessary to listen to other voices"".

In Europe, she has been a member of the Improv Groups Lilimprov and Codfish Waters, and also in Improv network The SIN, and the cast of international Improv shows as ""Room 3"" (Dance, Improv and Tarot) with the improvisers Amy Larimer and Jamie Graham from the USA. She created the project Impro.Lab in Lisbon, where she teaches and coordinates Improv Classes online and in person, and also the improv Jelly Jams with Stephen Thornton (USA) in Lisbon. She translates “Status” magazine to Portuguese. In 2019 she was a teacher in the Belfast Improv Festival where she also performed her solo ""Aleatório"", as in Sofia Improv (Bulgaria), Festival Amadora Mostra (Portugal), and in 2020 in Oslo (Norway). ""Room 3"" was performed in Portugal and in the Bentwood Festival (iO Chicago), and online Festivals in Brazil, South Africa, the USA, Hong Kong, and Germany. In 2021 she published 2 improv e-books, one with the Feminist Impro Laboratory La Otra Escena, and the other by herself as a workbook about her Ph.D research. She created and coordinated with André Sobral the IRREVERENTE - International Impro Festival of Lisbon."