Improvlab is a series of 8 workshops that explore creativity through movement.

Improvlab is for anyone who wants to explore creativity through movement.

What we do comes from our heart with a passion for improvisation as an art form in itself. Come and play with us!

It is led by Marie Chabert, Thomas Broda and Danny Kearns, a group of 3 artists, respectively a dancer, a musician, and an actor trained in physical theatre.

Danny Marie and Thomas are working together for several years now, performing their piece HEADin for Godot internationally and at the 2023 Resolution festival at the Place.

These sessions are an immersion into their creative process, each of them will walk you through their own practice and the tools they use in their work.

Improvisation is at the core of these workshops, one will be able to experiment at their own pace and explore their own creative process.

Through the last sessions we will gather these elements to create a collective piece that we will perform to a small audience of friends and colleagues @ Chisenhale studio on December the 6th.

You don’t have to perform if you don’t wish to, nor do you need to attend each class to join the final performance (altough we advise joining at least the last four sessions if you want to perform).

 

About your workshop instructors


Danny Kearns

Danny’s artistic practice explores themes of connection, loneliness, masculinity through the intricate layers which can be docoded through the body. Particular forms which have guided him are contact improvisation and capoeira both of which he’s studied and practised for over 15 years. Danny is interested in the body as a vehicle for transcending the ordinary and mechanical patterns in life – this led him to work in Poland for several years with Studium Teatralne, a former laboratory theatre with a strong emphasis on training for performers, following the lineage of Jerzy Grotowski.

The work he does is very physical, with a strong emphasis on improvisation for discovery and in itself for performance as well as constructing theatrical landscapes which synthesise all of his experience and training.

Marie Chabert

Marie is a choreographer, teacher and performer who has been performing and choreographing for the past 16 years in London, France and Germany. She trained at The London Contemporary Dance School and recently obtained a Master in Creative practice from Trinity Laban. She is the recipient of the Gill Clark Bursary and the Leverhulme scholarship. Her work has been showcased in Europe at Tripspace, Tanzfabrik Berlin, in art galleries in Hong Kong and Malaysia, in site specific places in Burkina Faso, at OMI in the USA amongst others.

Thomas Broda

Thomas Broda is a drummer and composer with a love for improvisation and merging different art forms together.

He accompanies dance classes for Wayne Mc Gregor Company, London Contemporary Dance School and Rambert. He has composed and performed with Adrian Look Tanztheatre Company, Tara theatre and can be heard playing drums alongside Dana Gavanski, Michelle Blades and Edward Randell.