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Mushrooms and Mycelium: Energies, Ecosystems,​and Improv
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Teaching Philosophy:

Rebecca is a nurturing and supportive teacher with a playful sparkle. She loves to help improvisers discover their improv superpowers, lean into and take joy from them - often enabling people to reframe perceived weaknesses as hidden strengths. She likes to enable people to see facets of improv from a new angle, to develop self-awareness around their improv and is hopes to leave participants with prompts and insights they can take away and work on in their own practice.
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Who: Rebecca MacMillan 
​​What: Mushrooms and Mycelium: Energies, Ecosystems,​and Improv
Where: Liverpool Arts Bar studios
When: Sunday the 10th of May – 2pm-5pm 
Tickets: £34.50 + booking fee

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Workshop 

Improv thrives on a dynamic balance: the subtle interconnectedness of group mind (mycelium) and the bold, surprising moves that shift the landscape (mushrooms). In long-form and beyond, improvisers navigate a constant interplay between agreement, mirroring, instinctive support, and the brave rediscoveries that propel scenes into new territory.
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This workshop explores those tensions and harmonies across a range of improvisational contexts - from organic, physical, and non-verbal work to grounded two-person scene work. Participants will experiment with the energies that shape an ensemble’s ecosystem, observe their own tendencies within that system, and discover how individual impulses and collective awareness can coexist, collide, and create.
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Expect a slightly philosophical but highly practical session. Through experiential and experimental approaches, you’ll move between big-picture concepts and embodied practices, always with space for reflection and personal discovery.

What Participants Can Expect
  • A range of verbal, physical, scene-based and ensemble work.
  • Exercises that explore different ways to make offers and to support, and when to do them.
  • An atmosphere that encourages curiosity, exploration, and self-reflection
  • A workshop that connects conceptual frameworks to tangible, actionable improv skills

Skills You Will Develop
  • The ability to reframe foundational improv ideas beyond polarised pedagogies (for example “yes, and” vs. “don’t drop your sh*t”) - seeking the essences behind these and recognising how they can sit together rather than be opposites.
  • A deeper understanding of the spectrum of offers and support, and how ensemble dynamics and individual impulses shape our work.
  • Greater awareness of your own rhythms, instincts, and patterns, with exercises to explore, challenge, or refine them.
  • Ideas to take away and explore in your own practice.

This Session Is Relevant For
  • Improvisers who have encountered multiple improv teachings and want an integrative framework that connects them
  • Anyone eager to understand their own tendencies and strengths - and curious about the new territory beyond them
  • Improvisers who aren’t necessarily seeking definitive answers, but are drawn to deeper questions, subtler connections, and more nuanced ways of working
  • Performers interested in blending philosophical inquiry with visceral, embodied practice

Rebecca MacMillan 

Rebecca has been teaching for over twenty years and has been learning and performing improv since before then, taking inspiration from a huge range of schools, teachers and other influences. Co-founder of the Maydays back in the day - a company that's played a key role in developing improv performance and development in the UK - she’s now active in developing an improv community in Stroud, where she lives, as well as in collaboration with the Bristol Improv Theatre.

​She also teaches at festivals including most recently the Robin Hood International Improv Festival in Nottingham, Birmingham Improv Festival, Bristol Little Improv Festival and Gather Festival in Kildare. As well as the Maydays she also performs with Closer Each Day, Impromptu Shakespeare and The Library of Forgotten Books with Anděl Sudik. Outside of improv dances in amazing places with legendary folksters Boss Morris.
Our workshops are supported by Liverpool Arts Bar Studios.
'We are passionate about making use of the space available to us to provide platforms for artists to develop and showcase their work and are proud that we have been able to do that in this building.' - Liverpool Arts Bar team

​For booking our further information Studio Info - Liverpool Arts Bar
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