Hoof Improvised Theatre & Sound Workshop
Commissioned By Frakture.

Wednesday 19th March 2008
Time: 7pm-10pm
Place: Green Room, at the Everyman Annexe
Hope Street . Liverpool
Fee: £2.00

Workshop leaders: Ann Farrar (Hoof performer) and a Hoof musician

Objective:
To share some of the exercises, skills and improvisation practices of our
spontaneous theatre form Hoof!

Format
The workshop will be divided into two halves with a break in between.
Ann and the Hoof musician will lead the group through a series of warm up exercises and short form improvisations in the first half. We will then
integrate these into a long form improvisation for the second half.

Content
The short form improvisations will be a mixture of music, movement and
acting inspired games. We are interested in telling stories so we will be
looking to create characters, relationships and environments in these short exercises and then in second half of the workshop we will explore how these characters can place themselves in scenes and find links between each other moving towards a single narrative.

Who is it for?
The workshop is ideally suited to musical improvisers who are additionally interested in

• learning some basic acting improvisation and/or
• interested in bringing movement improvisation into their playing to develop new dynamics and to create characters and environments.
  

Hoof! background
Hoof! is a unique spontaneous theatre form (mainly comedy) developed
collaboratively by Rejects Revenge and Spike theatre companies. We create a show from a blank stage with five performers, one or two musicians and a lighting improviser. From movement and music, characters and scenes quickly evolve. Our aim then is to integrate several of these individual storylines into a single tale.

Each Hoof lasts about 45 mins We create characters physically and mime props and settings. The musician(s) are on stage with the five performers but seated to the side. Music and soundscapes are an essential part of the show and a Hoof! can involve songs, live camera and on occasion, projections.