LAB4TOOLS – workshop

Performance Lab: movement, voice, text, improvisation, sharing, creative development, and stage sensitivity.

The workshop is designed as an open lab focused on instant composition (dance improvisation). In a safe, semi-enclosed environment, it creates a space for encounter, play, sharing, and the development of creative skills. We work with movement, voice, and text. We focus on stage presence, the ability to listen, perceive, and react in real time. We emphasize quality, concentration, and playfulness.

The workshop draws on the instructors' long-term performative and pedagogical practice and their experience with somatic approaches and improvisation. It offers specific tools, prompts, and questions for creative work in an open, exploratory environment.

The workshop is intended for anyone with professional performance experience who wishes to test, deepen, and refine that experience, as well as for those seeking to gain such experience. Musicians playing any instrument who wish to explore improvisation through both movement and playing their instrument are warmly welcome.

The sessions are led by Mish Rais and Jana Novorytová in Czech and English.