Work with what’s happening
Improvisation
Improvisation is not an art form in itself. It is a way of working – a discipline of attention and action. For some, it means performance games or a weekly social activity. For others, it becomes a craft: a method of composing in real time with the body, the imagination and the reality of the moment.
Impro Supreme belongs to the second category: not the fast, clever version built on verbal reflexes, but improvisation that begins in the body, moves through attention, and creates something alive on stage.
What improvisation trains
Improvisation trains the ability to create from what is happening – not from preconceived ideas, templates or automatic habits. It asks the performer to notice, to choose, and to act with clarity.
Improvisation is technique: awareness that becomes action.
Practised seriously, it strengthens all performance, scripted or unscripted.
How Impro Supreme approaches improvisation
In this work, improvisation begins in the body – in sensation, feeling and physical presence. You train yourself to watch what you’re doing and how it lands, and compose from there.
The imagination is not a separate layer added on top. Neither is emotion. Both arise from the body’s shifts, tensions, rhythms – and they shape the direction of the moment.
This is where theatre appears.
Once you engage with sensation and feeling, the work naturally generates relationships, atmosphere, character, narrative direction – not through invention, but through interpretation. Not because anything was planned, but because it grew out of the physical and felt reality of the moment.
This approach trains a way of working that stays with perception, not speed or habit.
Articles and writings
Insights into improvisation as embodied creative work – from practical details to broader principles.
- Improv emotions: what improvisers really feel
A practical mini-dictionary of improv emotions that uncovers what improvisers really feel on stage – and how those feelings shape their improvisation.
