Engaging with your audience- Improv for Scientists
Source: 9 PRINCIPLES of IMPROV by AMY POEHLER
July 10th | 4- 6 pm CET
Whether it is a conversation or a performance, how your ideas reflect upon your listener or audience says everything about you and your work (read: art). Many of us, including some renowned scientists, struggle to engage in listener-centric conversations. The main reason for this conflict is that we are often very obsessed with ‘WHAT’ we are going to say and seldom consider ‘HOW’ we make the other person understand.
How can Improvisation help us tune into that ‘HOW’?
Improv is a series of unscripted performances consisting of everyday situations, often exaggerated for audience reaction. Everyone thinks this audience reaction should be laughter and applause. While, in most cases, that is wonderful, sometimes it is also better to play on the relatability factor. If what is happening in a scene relates to your audience, your job is done. It will generate a response and applause.
Improv has many gems that help performers hone that relatability factor. It has everything to do with how you listen to your partner, how you discover a game, how you edit a scene.
What is our workshop about?
This workshop is all about taking the improvisation gems and using them to tell our science stories. It will involve creative games that can assist to
Read the room and understand your audience.
Discover the game and find opportunities on the spot.
Edit your talks on the go and reflect on audience reaction.
Who is the workshop for?
Scientists and Science Communicators who would like to try out improv and think creatively about science communication.
Medium and Language of the Workshop: This workshop will be on Zoom and in English.
Register until 7th July. The confirmation will be sent by 8th July with the link to the workshop.
This workshop is organized by the Experimentalist and is free. If you would like to organize this workshop on another date for your research group or department, email us to discuss further.