BIF Week 2014

Get personal. Be serious. Go Wild!

It’s all about you. The focus of BIF week and BIF days in 2014 is you, the improviser. The core of our program is how to use your story more intensely for your acting than before, to develop deeper characters through sincerity and to allow free play to yourself. Thus, the program takes up the slogan of IMPRO 2014: say yes – to yourself.
At BIF days, you can choose one of the three offered workshops, at BIF week you don’t have to decide - here, all three workshops are included in the program. BIF week has a length of seven and BIF days a length of four days, both happen during IMPRO 2014 which runs March 21st to 30th. The BIF program offers improvisers from all over the world the opportunity to collect impressions, impulses and make new contacts at one of the biggest festivals of this kind. In mixing workshops, shows and specials like a panel, BIF reaches even more improvisers that gather in Berlin to network, improve their skills and last but not least have loads of fun!

Workshop contents

Get personal

Patti Stiles, Impro Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
When improvising and searching for material to shape our characters and scenes, we sometimes end up stuck in stereotypes - while the source for inspiration is so close! We can use ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, our experiences, our encounters with others. But how can we be inspired by our own story? Patti shows you ways to enrich your improvisation by reflecting your own (hi)story.
Patti Stiles is improv director, teacher and actress. No other woman teaches as much and successfully as Patti. She intensely worked with the inventor of Theatresports, Keith Johnstone, and was Artistic Director of the Rapid Fire Theatre (Edmonton).

- Basic skills in improvisation are necessary, preferably a minimum of two years of improv experience.

Be serious

Eugen Gerein, The Koenigs International, Mannheim, Germany
Improv is generally known as a fast-paced, light theatre genre. Many of us who are improvising for a longer time, are searching for more depth in their improvisation – something different from the easy and funny scenes. Performing in serious, dramatic scenes is not only a challenge for the player, it also goes against the expectation of the audience. But if you can endure it, there's a great veracity emerging from the power and suspense of serious scenes. And of course, true comedy always has an earnest core.
Eugen Gerein is actor and theatre-teacher and studied at the State Acting-Academy in Sankt Petersburg. Eugen brought improv theatre to Russia. He was the team captain of the Russian National Team at the Theatresports Worldcup in 2006. He teaches at the University for Music and performing Arts in Stuttgart.

- Basic skills in improvisation are necessary, preferably a minimum of two years of improv experience.


Go Wild!

Jeron Dewulf, De Improfeten, Antwerpen, Belgium
Let yourself go, set yourself free. You know that it is impossible getting blocked? It is just in your mind! It is even fun to say no and to know that the stage is still full of ideas and inspiration. How to see them, use them and become a player that can deal with the biggest surprises on stage: Absolute freedom, Go Wild!
Jeron Dewulf has put his twenty years of improv experience in this workshop. He has been teaching it to experienced players as well as to improv beginners. No rules but tools. Improv can really set you free.

- Basic skills in improvisation are necessary, preferably a minimum of two
years of improv experience.

Cost

Cost: 295,- Euro
only with payment and registration until nov. 30th 2013: 280,- Euro
Including all elements of the BIF days.
If you would like us to book you a hotel room (together with fellow BIF participants), please contact us immediately for more information and booking. This will cause extra costs, which will be paid by the participant. All participants who book a hotel through us will be accommodated at Hotel Freiraum Berlin, Wiener Straße 14, 10999 Berlin.

Contact

Die Gorillas/ Culturalis kulturmanagement
Eva Bosse
eva@culturalis.de
www.improfestival.de

Conditions for participation in the BIF week workshops

Reservation of workshop in order of registration plus receipt of payment
Transfer of 50% of the workshop fee until dec. 31st (first come, first served!), second 50% until February 22nd of 2014.

Rescission/refund:
More than 6 weeks before workshops: full refund.
More than 4 weeks before workshops: 75% refund.
4-3 weeks before workshops: 50% refund.
3-2 weeks before workshops: 30% refund.
2-1 week(s) before workshops: 10% refund.
Less than 7 days before workshop: no refund.
Participation in the workshops on your own risk, there is no insurance protection by Gorillas.
Exact rooms of workshop t.b.d.
Please add the information whether or not you want to book the accommodation in the hostel into the
field "Bemerkung" of the registration form.

Bank transfer to:
Gorilla Theater e.V.
GLS Gemeinschaftsbank
IBAN DE79430609671102116500
BIC GENODEM1GLS
from Germany:
BLZ 430 609 67
Konto-Nr.: 1102 116 500