Conflict & comfort zone - An improv weekend in Israel

Recently I was in Israel to teach and perform. I got a bit more of a culture shock than I ‘normally’ get.

Israel is a complex country, I discovered.

international, EnglishLaura DoorneweerdDecember 20, 2016improv, improvisation, israel, tel aviv, lamabati, travel, workshops, training, perform, longform, Lasting Longform Skills, Dimensions, Heart Surgery for DummiesComment

Play, teach and play in Gothenburg

My first time in Sweden.

I played, taught, played and barely saw something of the city. It was perfect.

international, EnglishLaura DoorneweerdMay 6, 2016travel, improv, theater, improvisation, Sweden, Gothenburg, perform, teaching, workshops, Dancing for Dummies, playfulness, gbgimproComment

Improfestival Mainz - Grown-up kids & life-sized bananas

I <3 bananas! Even more than I already did.
Still filled with love and sunlight from a fan-tas-tic Improfestival Mainz where I taught and performed.

Here is a blog on how I found my inner child again. And some other great people too.

international, EnglishLaura DoorneweerdApril 12, 2016improvisation, festival, germany, Mainz, playfulness, teaching, performComment

Playing in Barcelona - About being alone

I was in Barcelona to teach and perform at Barcelona Improv Group (B.I.G). Had a BLAST, what a great trip. But I also thought about being alone in this work.

internationalLaura DoorneweerdFebruary 27, 2016improv, improvisation, theater, workshops, teaching, barcelona, spain, perform, longform, Close Quarters, twoprov, playfulness Comment

Ohana Improv Podcast 4 - Amir Atsmon

For the fourth episode of the Ohana Improv Podcast I spoke to Amir Atsmon, live from the streets of Tel Aviv in Israel. We talk about:

– what touring with a theatre project taught him;
– what the Israeli improv scene is like;
– how improv changed his life;
and much, much more.