{"id":1068,"date":"2013-12-23T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/2013\/12\/23\/23rd-december-2013-hooplas-improv\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:28:47","slug":"23rd-december-2013-hooplas-improv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/23rd-december-2013-hooplas-improv\/.html","title":{"rendered":"23rd December 2013: Hoopla\u2019s Improv Highlights of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a busy and fun year. So much has happened, I can\u2019t remember it all, but here\u2019s some fond improv memories of 2013.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        Warning! This blog is more sentimental than the end of a Robin Williams movie!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <u><b>People<\/b><\/u><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        &nbsp;<br \/>\nThis year especially as we had more<br \/>\nand more people involved with what we do. There\u2019s so many, but we\u2019d like<br \/>\n to say a special thanks to the following (in random order), without<br \/>\nwhom we wouldn\u2019t be doing what we\u2019re doing:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Mike Hutcherson: <\/b>Mike<br \/>\n has been at every show we put on, hosting, performing (in Glitch, Mike<br \/>\n&amp; Constantine and We Lost Our Puppets and more), doing lights.<br \/>\nEverything. Without him The Miller wouldn\u2019t have been running this<br \/>\nAutumn. Thank you Mike for everything, your constant advice and for<br \/>\ncaring passionately about making things happen, and making things<br \/>\nhappen.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Georgina Bream:<\/b> She\u2019s<br \/>\n my fiance, and also pretty much Hoopla\u2019s Creative Consultant. Every<br \/>\nidea I have I bounce off her and she\u2019s always so patient and always has<br \/>\ntime.<br \/>\n        <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <b>&nbsp;<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Edgar Fernando:<\/b> Oh<br \/>\n my gosh it\u2019s been so much fun having him back. We started Hoopla<br \/>\ntogether but then Edgar wasn\u2019t doing much impro the last few years due<br \/>\nto work, but he\u2019s been back this Autumn. Talking to him about impro<br \/>\nmakes me realise what\u2019s important, he\u2019s really got it and cuts through<br \/>\ncomplication and brings it back to being human in a good mood.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <b><br \/>\n        <\/b><b>Maria Peters:<\/b> For<br \/>\n year\u2019s it was just me and Edgar and occasional teachers but this year<br \/>\nMaria has joined up as a full teacher, best decision ever! She brings so<br \/>\n much joy, enthusiasm, excitement and her students are doing some<br \/>\namazing improv. Looking forward to doing more and more with her.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Max Dickins:<\/b> Max has also joined us a full teacher, running our stand-up<br \/>\n courses. He\u2019s been encouraging students to jump into a more honest form<br \/>\n of stand up, sharing their lives and stories, and some of them have<br \/>\nalready started winning competitions. He\u2019s also been amazing at<br \/>\nspreading impro into the workplace, where we\u2019ve been teaching together<br \/>\nfor various companies. Like Maria he keeps me going!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Jess Fremont: <\/b>Jess<br \/>\n was delivered to us like an impro angel from Canada. I was at The<br \/>\nMiller and after the show she marched straight up to me and said \u201cI\u2019m<br \/>\nfrom Loose Moose in Canada, I\u2019ve come to run your front of house\u201d. And<br \/>\nshe did, really well. She bonds people together, makes everywhere a joy<br \/>\nto be, and I really miss our late night McDonald\u2019s planning meetings!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Shawn Collinson: <\/b>Our<br \/>\n second impro angel from Canada! Just after Jess left, Shawn arrived as<br \/>\nif by magic. He\u2019s been doing amazing things all Autumn, working on our<br \/>\nmarketing for shows especially and also some new venues. Long-term<br \/>\nthis is going to enable us to do more and more shows and attract a<br \/>\nlarger mainstream audience. He\u2019s so patient with my scattiness, and such<br \/>\n a cool guy, thank you Shawn!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Patrick Vermillion: <\/b>Our<br \/>\n improv angel from New York! Patrick was volunteering with front of<br \/>\nhouse all Autumn and also gave us loads of advice on how to run shows,<br \/>\nborrowed from the New York improv scene. His tips are coming into play<br \/>\nin the New Year, he\u2019s made such a difference. We miss you!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Conor and Constantine:<\/b> They<br \/>\n aren\u2019t the same person, but I\u2019ve put them together because they both<br \/>\nmake me happy whenever I see them. In addition to performing they\u2019ve<br \/>\nalso been volunteering with hosting and front of house and planning and<br \/>\nloads of things.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Jon Monkhouse: <\/b>Earlier<br \/>\n on The Miller was a combination of Hoopla and London Improv (run by<br \/>\nJon) and his amazing work is still keeping it going today. Thanks also<br \/>\nfor Balham lunches, late night snacks and lovely improv chats.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Sophie Pumphrey:<\/b> We<br \/>\n constantly talk about what improv\/life is and what it could be, a<br \/>\nconversation that will thankfully never have an end, and this is really<br \/>\ninspirational on all our workshops.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Vanda:<\/b> She\u2019s a constant support to everything we do. If either of us are having an improv meltdown we fix each other.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Jules Munns:<\/b> Jules<br \/>\n does amazing things. The improv scene has become so much more exciting<br \/>\nsince he arrived. Teachers and groups coming from across the world to<br \/>\nour city, so amazing.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>John Cremer:<\/b> John<br \/>\n is a constant support and mentor and guru (he hates being called guru)<br \/>\nto us. He\u2019s like my original source of improv, and I wouldn\u2019t be doing<br \/>\nany of this without him. He introduced me to the whole world!&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Dylan Emery:<\/b> Loads<br \/>\n of what we\u2019re doing now comes from advice Dylan gave to me about four<br \/>\nyears ago at 3am at The Edinburgh Fringe. He\u2019s got kids, a busy job,<br \/>\nhe\u2019s in about four improv groups and somehow he still finds time to help<br \/>\n out us and the whole impro scene.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>James Pain at The Miller:<\/b> Yeah!<br \/>\n Love this guy. He\u2019s taken a punt on us and given us the weekends at The<br \/>\n Miller next year. He\u2019s been supporting us for over three years now,<br \/>\nthrough ups and downs.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Silas at The Rag Factory:<\/b> We<br \/>\n definitely wouldn\u2019t be doing so much without Silas. He keeps me sane<br \/>\nwhen I\u2019ve lost my marbles with his post workshop 10pm outside big life<br \/>\nchats.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Rhiannon, Phil, James, Ben, Abag, Chris Mead and The Music Box gang:<\/b> Whenever I see this lot I\u2019m happy, there\u2019s nothing as fun as stepping on stage with them not knowing what is about to happen.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Joel Butler:<\/b> One of the original Hoopla performers, and great to have him back after a few years away.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Everyone who\u2019s performed at our nights:<\/b> So<br \/>\n many great groups this year and so many new improvisers mixing with<br \/>\ncurrent improvisers, such exciting times. Thanks everyone who has been<br \/>\ndoing so much.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Everyone who has been to a workshop: <\/b>It\u2019s<br \/>\n so great to be able to spend a whole year laughing, thanks to everyone<br \/>\nfor jumping in and improvising, so many people for the first time ever.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Everyone who has been to a show:<\/b> The sound of a room full of people laughing is a dream come true.<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        Basically at the exact point I<br \/>\nsometimes feel like giving up and doing something else someone appears<br \/>\nand peps me up and makes improv worthwhile all over again. I constantly<br \/>\nrediscover the joy of improv on a weekly basis, and always due to the<br \/>\npeople involved.<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        There are so many people to thank for an amazing year, way more than I had space to list above, thank you everyone!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <u><b>Events<\/b><\/u><br \/>\n<u><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/u><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        There\u2019s been so many things this year, here\u2019s just a selection of what I can remember:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>IO Week:<\/b> Thanks<br \/>\n to Rob and Jules for making this happen. I was lucky enough to be<br \/>\ntaught by Charna Halpern the founder of IO in Chicago and it was a real<br \/>\njoy. It taught me the true power of Agreement in improv. There\u2019s more<br \/>\nabout that on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/blog-improv-tips-from-io-week.html\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">previous blog<\/a>.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>The Mayday\u2019s Residential Improv Festival at Osho Leela: <\/b>This<br \/>\n was one of the biggest highlights to me. It was actually a life<br \/>\nchanging experience. It&#8217;s hard to put it into words, as it was more an<br \/>\nexperience of emotions and feelings that words on a blog don&#8217;t do<br \/>\njustice. I think for the first time in my life I experienced what real<br \/>\ncommunity is, and also what a powerful and good thing it can be. If I<br \/>\nhad the choice between Edinburgh Fringe and Osho Leela I&#8217;d now go for<br \/>\nOsho Leela every time, and hope to go again next year.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Edinburgh Improv Buzz:<\/b> I<br \/>\n couldn\u2019t make it to Edinburgh this year but I enjoyed picking up the<br \/>\nbuzz on so many improv groups doing so well again, and such a variety<br \/>\ntoo. Short-form, long-form, narrative, musicals, Edinburgh had it all going on.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>End of Course Shows: <\/b>I<br \/>\n love every single end of course show that we put on. The stakes are so<br \/>\nhigh, people are nervous (including me), the audience are new to improv.<br \/>\n Every single show features a level of excitement, joyfullness and<br \/>\nplayfullness that makes me fall in love with improv all over again.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Annoyance, UCB, Montreal Improv Weekends and more:<\/b> There<br \/>\n were loads of improv teachers coming over from North America and<br \/>\nEurope, London is so exciting at the moment because we get to learn from<br \/>\n everyone from across the globe.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Slapdash Festival: <\/b>This<br \/>\n was a great one, thanks to Jules for putting it all together. Before<br \/>\nour show (Music Box) I had the worse performance anxiety ever, so much<br \/>\nso I had to sit with my head in my hands in a coffee shop for an hour.<br \/>\nBut the second I walked back stage and saw Andrew Gentilli and the rest<br \/>\nof the Music Box cast I was in a good mood again.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>UK Border Patrol: <\/b>This was an end of course show from our long-form course that seems to have gone down in legend. One of those shows where it just clicks and everything comes together.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>The Round Table Crash Pad: <\/b>We<br \/>\n went back to The Round Table for one night and there was an eventful<br \/>\nshow with Bob falling out of a window and a story set on the Love Star<br \/>\nbeing performed entirely in flashback mode.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>All New Shows: <\/b>There<br \/>\n have been so many new shows and groups forming this year, the improv<br \/>\nscene feels like a living a breathing organism now and it\u2019s growing up<br \/>\nquick. It\u2019s alive!!!!!!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Beginners:<\/b> It\u2019s<br \/>\n been a pleasure this year to introduce so many people to the joy of<br \/>\nimprov, well done for jumping into it. I never ever tire of introducing<br \/>\npeople to listening, yes and, spontaneity and having fun with games.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Epic Crash Pads:<\/b> Many<br \/>\n of these are totally bonkers. 15 groups performing in one night in a<br \/>\nsmall sweaty room above a pub. It\u2019s Peter Brook\u2019s Rough Theatre at it\u2019s<br \/>\nfinest and it\u2019s producing new theatre and seeds of ideas. What\u2019s great<br \/>\nabout the Crash Pads is that now when show ideas happen they get done<br \/>\nwithout hesitation.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Breaking and Entering cracking it: <\/b>Maria<br \/>\n and Lauren performed together, went to Chicago together and then<br \/>\nperformed Breaking and Entering together. At their last show the<br \/>\naudience made the sound of an audience recognising a group who had<br \/>\n\u2018cracked it\u2019, they\u2019ve got their thing. Fun, joy, characters, truth,<br \/>\ngame, play, laughs, emotion, their show has it got it all going on in<br \/>\nevery single scene.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Rap Workshop: <\/b>This<br \/>\n made Edgar happy, he said this is what Hoopla is all about. I was<br \/>\nteaching an emotionally real naturalistic Meisner for Improv workshop<br \/>\nupstairs while Dave Waller taught &nbsp;freestyle rap downstairs. I agree,<br \/>\nthat\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Weekend classes at 3:30pm:<\/b> The<br \/>\n best improv I see is usually at 3:30pm on one of our weekend classes<br \/>\nwhere a group have warmed up together, played together and suddenly they<br \/>\n are there in the magic zone.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Saturday Night Improv: <\/b>We<br \/>\n experimented with putting on shows on Saturday nights. They went down<br \/>\nwell. They went down so well that The Miller offered us every weekend<br \/>\nfor the whole of 2014. Nice one.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Last Night\u2019s Improv Jam: <\/b>This<br \/>\n was so much fun! I wasn\u2019t sure if people would be up for a late night<br \/>\nimpro jam starting at 10pm, but actually it was our busiest one yet. A<br \/>\nmix of people who\u2019d never been on stage of people and experienced<br \/>\nimprovisers playing together. It opens the doors to more late night<br \/>\nshows next year, which is great.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Music Box Last Show:<\/b> I<br \/>\n loved performing with Music Box so much. It\u2019s the most fun show to<br \/>\nperform in, exhilarating. You step on stage and into a made up world for<br \/>\n 45 minutes, you can go anywhere in time and space, the cast of Music<br \/>\nBox make improv fun.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>ImproFest UK: <\/b>This was very exciting and the festival really nailed the marketing this year so it was great to perform to full houses.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>God, Jesus and the Devil surfing with a Vicar:<\/b> I don\u2019t usually remember scenes but this was a fun one.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Airplanes and Tube Trains:<\/b> This was from a long-form<br \/>\n groups end of course shows. We spent ages in the course learning about<br \/>\nedits and tags, but in the show they decided not to use them in a piece<br \/>\nand instead set a whole 15 minute scene on one row of an airplane. It<br \/>\nwas awesome. So amazing that the next show they set a whole 15 minute<br \/>\nscene on one row of a tube train. I thought it was the best scene I\u2019ve<br \/>\nseen all year, a true ensemble working together like magic.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Monday Night Drop Ins: <\/b>I<br \/>\n miss these so much! 20 people laughing together in a weird room at The<br \/>\nRag Factory while it rains outside on a Monday night. We had to stop<br \/>\nthem as they got too busy, but they\u2019ll be back in a different form in<br \/>\nthe New Year. They had the most intense atmopshere out of everything we<br \/>\ndo.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Countless nights in The Princess Alice:<\/b> Pint of Doom Bar please. I still owe Fraser a pint of Guiness.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Meeting Susan Messing in the pub:<\/b> I<br \/>\n couldn\u2019t make the Susan Messing workshop but accidentally met her at a<br \/>\npub near Brick Lane. A random place to meet an improv legend, and she<br \/>\nfitted right in. <\/p>\n<p>        <b>People coming back from America with new stuff:<\/b> London<br \/>\n is absorbing influences from all over the place now and it\u2019s great.<br \/>\nWhat is the London improv style? It\u2019s a melting pot, it\u2019s whatever you<br \/>\nwant it to be.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <b>Mark Beltzman workshops in the snow: <\/b>The<br \/>\n year started with me trudging through Kings Cross snow to do workshops<br \/>\nwith Mark Beltzman, such a positive guy and put me in a good mood for<br \/>\nthe rest of the year. What he taught is what I\u2019m most likely to refer to<br \/>\n when performing: talk to each other about each other. <\/p>\n<p>        Thanks again to everyone for making it such a fun year!!!<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        Merry Christmas everyone!<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        Steve,<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        Hoopla<br \/>\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a busy and fun year. So much has happened, I can\u2019t remember it all, but here\u2019s some fond improv memories of 2013.&nbsp; &nbsp; Warning! 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