Workshop - Shortform Improv & Audience Engagement with Anshu Daga

Kaivalya Plays presents

SHORT-FORM IMPROV & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT WITH ANSHU DAGA

An online workshop as part of Kaivalya Plays' B1 Improv Theatre Course. 

Saturday Feb 20, 2:30pm IST to 4:30pm IST. Conducted on Zoom. 

Registration fees INR 1500/-. Learn more and book your ticket at www.kaivalyaplays.org/improvb1shortform

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

To grow as an improv team, your improv skills need to be as good as your ability to curate a spectacle for your audience. Engaging the crowd, getting suggestions effectively and keeping a format fresh are some of the key things behind a magical evening.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR 

Anshu Daga is a Coach and Performer with Nautankibaaz Improv Collective in Gurugram. She has also been a performer with The Nursery UK, Online House Team and a Performer with Dogface Improv, based in Norwich, UK, for their online production Creatures. A creative entrepreneur and performing arts enthusiast, Anshu is trained in Forum Theatre under Adrian Jackson in London and Barbara Santos in Berlin. She runs a theatre group in her city called Roots and Wings theatre and has written and directed several plays on social issues. Anshu also runs the only Playback Theatre group in her city. Her group has been performing regularly online since the last one and half years. Prior to establishing The Inner Startup in 2015, Anshu worked for 15 years in the corporate world as a Creative and Strategic Communications specialist. She regularly facilitates experiential interventions for corporates using a unique blend of interactive theatre and mindfulness.

ABOUT KAIVALYA PLAYS

Kaivalya Plays is an Indian performing arts and production organization, led by Varoon P. Anand as Artistic Director and Gaurav Singh Nijjer as General Manager. Their artistic training is grounded in spontaneous improvisation, lying at the intersection of short-form improvisations (for performances and workshop) and applied improvisation (with a focus on mental healthcare, business, education, training). Their improv group CueLess improv was one of Delhi's first improv teams and became the training ground for a generation of improv performers and heads of new teams. Kaivalya Plays' original play 'Unravel' uses improvisational theatre techniques to drive conversations about mental health. Their innovative use of the improv methodology spans different sectors – driving safety conversations in the performing arts, expanding mental health dialogue through their 'Improv for Wellness' program, fostering a global community with their 'Open Space' improv jam, supporting foreign language learning with their 'Improv for Languages' programs in Hindi, Spanish and Punjabi as well as furthering improv as an art form with the multilingual 'India Improv Ensemble' and 'India Improv Sxene' that puts the spotlight on the Indian improvisational theatre community. They are committed to finding new formats and applications to make improv accessible and available to a wider audience.