ImPresent
24-26 June 2022
The Clowns of Israel
Liron Levin & Ignacio Grinstein are improvisers, clowns, and physical theatre actors from Tel Aviv, teaching workshops that combine physicality and improv. They have deep and diverse backgrounds from clowning in Israel, commedia dell'arte in Italy, Balinese masks, physical theater (Lecoq, Laban, Decroaux), and short form and long form improvisation. They have spent the last 10 years teaching and performing across South America, Europe, and Asia, and will be in Spain this June.
The Show - Friday 24 June
Gather together as the sun goes down Friday night for a rollicking hour of Jewish comedy featuring Barcelona-based comedians Hannah Becker, Jamie Lerner, Harris Fellman, and Noah Levin with special guests all the way from Israel, ImPresent!
Enjoy and evening of stand up and improv comedy and start your Sabbath with laughter and light.
Tickets are 7€ on the door but only 5€ in advance.
Only a shmuck pays retail - so get your ticket early!
The Workshops - Saturday 25 June
Liron Levin - Beyond Words
Description: In real life, do we always say what we think? What we mean? Or do we also speak with our eyes? Our tone?
In this workshop we will focus on the dialog hidden behind the words. When talking, we might tend to try and hide our failures behind worlds and explanations, but our tone and body language reveals the truth. In this workshop we will celebrate the mistakes, instead of hiding them, like children and clowns do.
We will explore the various methods to deliver a subtext which can be complementary, or even contradictory, to the text delivered by our words. We will experiment both with revealing our subtext and hiding it. We will create scenes with no words but full of meaning. We will see how it can influence the scene and raise it to be more authentic. We will explore our tone, tempo, pauses, breathing, emotions and many more and reveal additional layers of dialogs.
Time and Date: Saturday 25 June, 11am-1pm
Location: Z95 Art Home (Ciutadella)
Price: 20€ (or 30€ for both workshops)
Ignacio Grinstein - Clown for Normal People
Description: The nose is the precise mask to response to a very specific demand: honesty. We want to see you in your greatest sincerity, away from the obligatory smile that education has taught us really well. There, when I don't have to please, or try to make the audience laugh, when I just let my deepest feeling take over, only then, all the potentialities unfolds on one single moment. A sigh, a look or a moving finger, is enough to unleash the most generous laugh or the deepest sigh. And then the audience will be with you, lowering their defenses cause you did it first in front of them.
From this artistic state we will immerse ourselves in to the scenic construction, and then take our clown nose off and investigate where the scene takes us, remaining faithful to the spirit of the moment and what kind of stories will be born from it.
Time and Date: Saturday 25 June, 2pm-4pm
Location: Z95 Art Home (Ciutadella)
Price: 20€ (or 30€ for both workshops)
Questions? Email us at barcelonaimprovfestival@gmail.com