Physical improvisation & embodied creative training

Clarity, simplicity and the weight of your choices

Substance is a workshop about working with what theatre is actually made of. Not characters. Not stories. Not cleverness. But the elements that are always present: space, movement, attitude, emotional tone, rhythm — and raw human meaning.

This workshop is for performers who sometimes feel they “have nothing to do” on stage — or who sense a kind of emptiness beneath their improvisations. It brings you back to the essential materials of performance, so that you always have something real to work with.

You train how to:

• ground your play in presence and physical intention
• give weight and meaning to simple actions
• let stillness become expressive
• let attentiveness open new possibilities of choice and play
• build clarity before adding complexity

The work is calm, precise and demanding. We strip away noise to discover what actually holds the stage.

Improvisation is part of the process, but the focus is deeper than composing scenes. The aim is to reconnect your creativity to a reliable source: what you perceive, feel and choose in real time.

This workshop is particularly powerful if you have been trained to think of improvisation as primarily narrative or verbal. You’ll discover how meaning can arise from the simplest actions, the slightest hint of intention.

For actors, improvisers, clowns and performers who want depth, precision and honest expression.

Identity, courage and playful transformation

The clown-hero is not a character type — it’s a way of making sense of the stage. This workshop uses clowning, physical play and improvisation to refine your creative identity: how you take space, make choices, respond to partners, and become readable through simple, concrete action.

The work sits at the meeting point between the exuberance of clowning and the narrative intelligence of theatrical improvisation. You explore how to play boldly without dissolving into chaos, and how to shape clear situations without falling into predictability.

Through simple, precise exercises, you work on:

• making clear, visible choices
• letting courage appear through action
• building playful situations with partners
• staying physically honest without psychology
• navigating dramatic situations in a physical, non-verbal way

The work is playful, exact and personal — not because it is about “self-work”, but because being present and visible is already enough.

Clowning here is not about gags, noses or pre-fabricated comic types. It is a physical, non-verbal form of improvisation that feeds directly into theatrical work, whether you perform as an actor, an improviser, a dancer… or a clown.

This workshop is for performers who want more freedom in their improvisations, more clarity in their action, and a stronger relationship with their partners on stage — while maintaining the joy of play.

Instinct, structure and physical imagination

Mime Sauvage is improvisation in its raw physical state: direct, gestural, spontaneous and creative. It’s a way of letting imagination flood the body — without worrying about silence, purity or formal correctness.

This workshop explores how to bring full-bodied physical expression into theatrical improvisation: not as a special effect, but as a natural extension of how you think, feel and act on stage. You don’t train mime to become precise — you train it to become alive, visible and generous.

Technique is not the starting point here. Expression is.

You work with:

• breath, sound and voice when they become necessary
• movement and gesture as carriers of imagination
• physical excess as a tool for clarity, not chaos
• instinct as the engine of expression
• structure as something that emerges from play, not from control

The aim is not to become a “better mime”, but to amplify your stage presence and the visual power of your improvisations. To let the whole body participate in making meaning — without aesthetic restraint.

This work is physical, joyful and uninhibited. It draws on the raw theatrical force of gesture and movement, rather than on stylised or codified technique. What matters is not formal perfection, but courage, generosity and readability.

Whether you come from acting, improvisation, dance… or clowning, Mime Sauvage gives you a way to push your expression further — and make your improvisations more vibrant, physical and alive.

Intensity, rhythm and emotional electricity

Ivresse & Rock’n’Roll is a workshop about a particular attitude on stage: letting yourself take space, fill it, overflow it — with clarity, rhythm and charge. It draws on two extreme figures of presence: the drunk and the rock star. Not as roles to imitate, but as states of being that reveal what it means to be fully exposed, fully visible, fully alive.

This work is not about inventing ideas or playing emotions “correctly”. It’s about allowing what you feel to become a clear, physical signal — visible in your body, your voice, your rhythm and your address to the world.

You explore:

• taking space without apology
• letting intensity circulate through the whole body
• rhythm, pulse and dynamic contrast as engines of presence
• emotional charge as a physical fact
• exaggeration with clarity, not chaos

The tone is wild — but the frame is precise. This is not recklessness. It’s a way of learning to let go inside a clear structure, so that intensity becomes readable, communicable and theatrical.

Through the figures of the drunk and the rock star, you don’t train caricature — you extract their attitude: overflowing life, shameless address, fragile bravado, tragicomic truth. The aim is not to “play” these figures on stage, but to transpose their energy into any character, any situation, any style of improvisation or acting.

This workshop is for performers who feel their work is held back by control, self-surveillance or fear of excess — and who want to explore how to let go, take space and own it, without losing precision.