What you'll learn

We all have masculine and feminine energies within us - unfortunately, playing feminine/femme characters has been reduced to tropes/ the punchline. The feminine helps you uncover your innate intuition, allowing you to play characters that are nurturing, gentle, warm and empathetic - WITHOUT being a pushover. Let's call in your feminine powers onstage (and maybe off?), helping you play subtler and more nuanced characters.

NB This is for everyone no matter your gender identity!

About the teacher

Bala is an improviser based in Bangalore, India. She has been performing and teaching impro since 2016, creating her own show formats, teams and impro learning journeys in India. She started learning and performing impro in the United States when she was an engineering grad student. On returning to India, she joined India's largest Impro Theatre Company, Improv Comedy Bangalore, where she has performed in and directed 70+ shows since. She also co-founded India's first and only all-women Impro group - The Adamant Eves. During the pandemic, she had been teaching and performing virtually all over the globe. She was co-artistic director of Improv Comedy Bangalore, the company that that planned and executed the first continuous 24-hour virtual impro festival. She performed, hosted and curated 30+ performances, with improvisers across across 5 continents. She currently uses impro in her work as an organisational development consultant, one of the few facilitators using the methodology in India with corporations. Her personal philosophy is that as an improviser (or even as a human being), all you need is the ability to direct your awareness. To her, impro is a way of life and she loves teaching using a mix of themes like music, movement, philosophy, and a mix of eastern spiritual traditions - all tools that help her show up as her best self, on and off-stage.