What people say

You and your improv methods have an amazing ability to pull diverse groups and people together while allowing them to have fun and think outside of themselves.

Mark Baker - Industrial Psychologist

The practical exercises and the interaction created between group members during the sessions made it an interesting team building experience. I would recommend it to any team/organisation that needs to uplift their team culture.

Heinrich Minnaar British American Tobacco HR teame

The presentation was dynamic, practical and interactive. Burgert and Francois applied the technique of roleplay brilliantly and managed to make congress attendees think about their daily walk and talk. Their performance is energetic and definitely reacher their audience. They move horisons!

Rian Truter - Executive Manager, Kids Development Agency

Improvisation

    What are some of the thoughts and feelings that come to mind when you hear the word improvisation theatre? Answers that we often get in our workshops are – “scary”, “not for me”, “where is the door?” We also get answers such as “exciting”, “funny”, creative” and “quick thinking”. We always follow up this question with do you think there is anything that you can learn from improvisation theatre that would be useful in your own life. The fact is life is improvisation and we have to play different roles in relationship to other people in order to have a meaningful life. No one wakes up in the morning with a script for the day on the bedside table. We have to adapt, be creative to solve problems and most of the time we need to do this in collaboration with other people - A lot like a group of improvising actors that need to come up with an entertaining performance in the moment. But improvisational theatre is not just a wonderful metaphor for life, the skills and principles that we can learn and practice through improvisation exercises are very useful to equip us for the world that we live in today, a world that is very uncertain and is changing at a dramatic speed. Without the right tools this world can seem scary and we often look for the door by escaping from life challenges in various ways. Or we protect ourselves by building walls around us that causes distrust and disconnection with those around us. In short the practices that we can learn from improvisational theatre can help us to be more creative, build better relationships with the people around us and deal better with the uncertainty of life. Now you may say, “Yes, that sounds all very nice, but I’m not really the acting type.” Yes that is what all the nurses, engineers, accountants, doctors, graphic designers, linguists, administrators, receptionists, marketers, managers ect. said before they participated in one of our workshops. The skills that we teach are not acting skills; it is skills for life, skills that our education system unfortunately never taught us. We would even go so far as saying that these skills were suppressed by our education.

    About the exercises:

    The exercises are experiential and blend right and left brain thinking. No participants are put on the spot or embarrassed in front of others. A bit of discomfort might be experienced at times, but it is in these uncomfortable times that one is stretched and learns the most. The common enjoyable side effects of these exercises are uncontrollable laughter and giggling. We set the stage for your undiscovered playful identity to emerge.