by Gael | Apr 16, 2021 | Community, International, The How & the What
Two years ago, I started talking about dominant and recessive skills to talk about how improvisers interact with each other, because I thought it was a nice analogy. So I wrote an essay about it, that will be soon published in a book putting together a couple of...
by Gael | Apr 7, 2021 | Community, International
In the last few years, I have been more and more in touch with different cultures. First in my studies and day job as a geologist, then through improv for a bit more than 10 years, and eventually through moving to a new country where my partner Laura is from: the...
by Gael | Jan 7, 2021 | Community, Formats, The How & the What
The current context (note for future-self: a worldwide pandemic raging for almost a year) can bring a lot of frustration and scarcity feeling towards out improv opportunities. I didn’t perform a show for two months, and my next show will be in two months. But it also...
by Gael | Aug 19, 2020 | Community
Recently a friend told me that we were ‘competitors’, because we and they are teaching improv classes, so it inspired me to write a little something. Flock Theatre is the new professional improvised theatre company created by Laura and myself, and set in Amsterdam...
by Gael | Jul 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am French, I practice improv in English, and I live in the Netherlands, learning Dutch. Improv is scary. And learning a language is scary as well. These two fears can feed each other, but they can also tame each other to make the journey a little easier. Our inner...
