In this two-day workshop, Yann Van Den Branden of Quicksilver
Productions will lead you on improvising between a puppet and a human,
using a screen to keep the puppeteer from being visible to the
audience . Honest interactions, storytelling, comedy and play will be
covered as well in this 10-hour class. There will be plenty of stage
time and direct feedback. Skills offered in class: Retraining your
improviser brain to work with a puppet, Human to puppet interactions,
working with a puppet screen (hidden puppeteer). Dates: 11/16 & 11/17
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Location: Unexpected Productions’ Market
Theater Maximum Students: 20 Cost: $150 Prerequisite: Basic Improv
Teacher Bio: Since 1999, Yann Van den Branden is the Artistic Director
of Quicksilver Productions. He likes to divide his work as an actor
between theatre and television. Playing as well in regular theatre,
musicals and television series. Yann has a passion for improv theatre
and he likes to perform in all kinds of formats. On tv, he played
during two seasons in the Belgian version of “Who’s line is it
anyway” and later he even dared to host a one hour live improv show,
on national TV. It became a weekly live show that provoked a lot of
controversy. Typically for his high energy way of playing is his
on-going search in finding a balance between going “totally crazy”
and trying to involve things out of his personal life in his improv
story telling. In 2004 he created “the Wake”. An improv format
that he brought with Quicksilver to Stockholm, Seattle, Edmonton,
Victoria, Ljubljana, Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam. In 2006 he
stretched the limits of improv again by bringing a Muppet
show-inspired improv show to Belgium. The audience was fascinated by
the weird show “Ploesj!” and the more serious “Shakespeare and
puppets”.Although he prefers long form improv, he always stays in
touch with the fast and shorter forms of improv like theatresports and
improv-match. That Yann and his Quicksilver team are knowing how to
excel in this kind of improv, became clear in 2006 when they won the
World championship of theatresports. In 2007 they even won the open
German improv championship in Hamburg. The last 15 years, he has been
touring around in the world to perform and to teach improv. From
Victoria and Seattle to Rome over Boston and Berlin, passing Tokyo,
Bologna, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Zurich, Lisbon and Paris. But the last
couple of years, he can often be found teaching puppet workshops all
over Italy.
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