IMPROFEST workshop: Celebrate the Lower Status - Liron Barre

We love being right and setting the tone. We enjoy receiving praise and admiration from others, we’re only human, after all. However, in so many cases, it is the seemingly clueless and good for nothing character who steals the spotlight.

As improvisers, we understand the importance of status in a scene, in terms of relationships, dynamics, and tension. In this workshop, we will explore the concept of a low status, the various types of characters that it encompasses, different ways to achieve it, and how to push it even lower.

Using techniques from clowning, we will embrace our mistakes, flaws, and errors, as they are the ones who make us relatable as human beings and create loveable characters. We will discover the perks that come with lower status, the playfulness and tomfoolery. So let's get lost together!

Bio:
Liron is an experienced improviser, clown, performer, actor and improv teacher. She combines methods of clowning, physical theater, performance art and dance, all building and supporting her improv acting and teaching.

She's the co-founder and co-artistic director of the duo “ImPresent”. They've been touring with their impro-clown duo format "Strings" and their group formats, teaching and performing in festivals, and they are constantly creating new experiences, formats and collaborations. She's also a part of “Woman up” - an all-female improv ensemble that touches on women related topics and "Girls Night In" - an improvised Rom-Com conversation.

Liron's varied theatrical background supports her stage presence and movement, as well as her connection to the body and physicality of her characters. Her teaching style is energetic and supportive and she loves sharing these aspects in her workshops.

Liron is a guest teacher at ImproSynthesis school in Athens and a curation team coordinator and communications specialist for Ithaca Improfest. She taught workshops in improv festivals in Lisbon, Istanbul, Bucharest and Gothenburg, and in Japan, Munich, Cambridge, Vienna and more.

The workshop is a part of Improfest 2025, a theatre festival focusing on improvisational theatre. The festival invites improvisers from Sweden and the rest of the world to give performances and offer workshops in various locations in Sweden during the period May to August 2025

(Workshopen kommer att hållas på engelska då Improfest är en internationell improvisationsteater-festival med inbjudna improvisatörer från hela världen.)