Impro Supreme Workshops | Tallinn Fringe Festival 2026
You work from the body, and you commit to what you find. Two separate four-hour workshops, each complete on its own.
8 places per workshop · Sign up for one or both
Stage experience required (improvisation, theatre, clown, dance)
Substance | Saturday 22.08 | 10:00-14:00
Play from what's already there – before any idea.
You never start from nothing. Before you invent anything, there is already space, movement, posture, rhythm, a state of emotion. Substance is the work of seeing and feeling what's present, and playing from that, instead of reaching for an idea.
Most improvisers play from the head: decide, then execute. These four hours train the opposite reflex: use your body first, act before the idea arrives. Playing becomes clearer, steadier, more your own.
What we work on:
perceiving precisely what's already there
letting the body organise action before the mind decides
staying with what's happening instead of filling the silence
playing from real experience, not invention
For performers whose playing leans too hard on ideas.
Patience needed.
Pure Impro! | Sunday 23.08 | 10:00-14:00
Improvisation as pure as it gets – the kind nobody asked for. And fewer dare to do.
Uncompromising. No good manners, no hedging. This is improvisation untainted by reluctance and misguided politeness. Four hours of playing without restraint: full characters, big imagination, choices made out loud and stood by.
Where Substance is the ground, this is the release. The name of the game is full commitment – to a character, an impulse, a frankly bad idea – and not taking it back. Most improvisers stay safe, reasonable, and (let’s face it) predictable. This is the cure.
What we work on:
playing what occurs to us without holding back
imagining loudly and committing to it
standing by choices we didn't know we were making
letting it rip
For performers who want to stop playing it safe.
Bring a sense of humour.
Caspar Schjelbred founded Impro Supreme in Paris in 2010. His work brings together physical acting, clown, mime and improvisation into a coherent method, built on more than twenty years of performing and teaching. Based in Copenhagen, he teaches internationally. His improvised solo PLAN C has been performed more than seventy times across Europe, Australasia and North America.
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