how does impro studio work?
impro studio's activities are created and directed by Angelina Castellini. Angelina collaborates with many different practitioners from a wide variety of practices.
Everyone who works with impro studio brings with them a wealth of skills and methodologies that we combine to create a rich blend of colours, tones and flavours of improvisation. We love what we do! We have experienced the benefit of what we share in our own lives and hope that it will be helpful to others.
We offer creative, playful, and carefully crafted spaces.
All of our content and activities are delivered in ways that are easy to understand and robust. They can be engaged with in multiple manners and provide opportunities for mutual learning. We mix individual work with small and large group activities. These are non-competetive in nature and designed in a flexible manner that makes them a meta-description of their content:
improvising improvisationaly.
There are many different pathways to learning how to relate more spontaneously to daily life and work. We know that all of our participants bring improvisation skills with them, even if they are unaware of them and rarely use them deliberately. Our craft focuses on curating spaces for the intuitive creative potential of our participants to reveal itself and for improvisational processes to occur naturally.
Bottom line: we offer support while you make things up as you come along.
Seeing people in all of their creativity and vulnerability brings with it the responsibility to learn to respond in the moment.
accessibility
impro studio strives to make its activities accessible for as wide a variety of people as possible.
Whoever you are, wherever you are from, whatever your ethnicity, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation or age… we welcome you into our space. It is important to us that there are many different people who all bring their own perspectives to the work we do. This goes far beyond labels and representation of the communities we belong to, with the invitation for each individual to show up in their full complexity.
We do our best to accurately describe what participants can expect to be part of before booking on. Most content and activities will include ways to participate through a variety of channels of perception and sensing. Much of what we do can be adapted to suit individual participants' and trainers' variety of needs.
Some of our activities do require certain abilities to fully perceive, understand and interact with the content. These might be auditory, cognitive, emotional, neurological, physical, verbal, or visual. If you have a physical disability or mental health concerns, we can chat with you to find a way for you to join.
We have a multi-lingual ensemble and offer our events in English, German or Dutch. We have a large number of international participants and people taking part in their second language. Language learning through improvisation is one of our special interests so please inquire with us if you have any concerns about the level of languages spoken at our events.
As we grow, we will keep improving our (financial) accessibility.
We accept and encourage feedback from our participants so that we can continuously adjust to our participants' needs. Here is our (anonymous) feedback form. Should you, at any point before, during or after an event wish to speak to someone about how impro studio might improve its offers to be more accessible and enjoyable for you in the future, please contact us and we can schedule a conversation.
Improvisation values are like a compass, providing orientation
as we traverse the complex territories of life.
accountability and values
At impro studio, our vision is based on our interpretation of the ecology of life.
Our actions and those of our clients/participants are connected to other fields of relationships. We consider ourselves to be accountable for our own actions before, during and after sessions which we offer when we are physically together in a space or virtually present online.
We have all followed trainings with people and institutions relevant to what we do.
Everyone who works with us brings with them a set of ethics derived from being members within other communities. We are also guided by the traditions in which we grew up, the laws of our societies, and the group conscience of our generations. Improvisation is at its best when our skills, resources and values converge to meet the needs of the current moment.
Here is the moral compass which we use to navigate our work:
We strive to align our intentions, words, and actions. However, in the words of Alfred Korzybski: "A map is not a territory." We may stumble, make mistakes, disagree, or hit an impasse. As we learn more about our impact in the world, our practices may also change in unanticipated ways.
We are open and willing to have difficult conversations when required.
If you have a concern, question or complaint, or are worried about the behaviour of a fellow improviser, participant or impro studio ensemble member, please talk to your host/trainer or complete this (anonymous) feedback form, informing us that you wish to speak confidentially.