Projets & Events
Interviews and Talks
Links of Luana's participations in interviews, publications, conferences and talks.
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Interview for the Second Theater Group Meeting of Brazilian Federal District (in Portuguese) - Brazil, October 2015
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Lecture about Improv (in Portuguese) - Brazil, August 2018
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Lecture about Long Form Improv (in Portuguese) - Brazil, August 2018
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Interview about her Life and Theatre for the TV show "Conversa de Mulheres" (in Portuguese) - Portugal, September 2019
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Interview to Status Improv Magazine (English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and German) - Number 102 - December 2019
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Interview about Impro, Women and All Female Improv Groups to "Improving the World" (in English) - Hong Kong, April 2020
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Interview in the Podcast do Fábio Lins (in Portuguese) - Brazil, July 2020
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Interview for The Impro Art instagram - Part 1 and Part 2 (in Portuguese) - Brazil, July 2020
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Talk about Impro Literature about/for Women in the FEMINIMPRO (in Portuguese) - Brazil, October 2020
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Talk about Directing Impro in the IV Impro Meeting produced by cia Mequetrefes (in Portuguese) - Brazil, October 2020
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Webserie "Escutando" - Ep 1 Part 2 about Impro created by News Improv (in Portuguese) - Brazil, October 2020
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Interview to Impronoun Project (in English) - India, September 2020
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Panel Discussion: Is Improv Theatre? (in English) - Facebook group Worldwide Improvisation Network , October 2020
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Interview for Breakdown Improv hosted by Rich Baker (in English) - USA, December 2020
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Talk You Are Someone in the Painel "The Improv Salon: Elevate the Play" produced and hosted by The Rollin'in Riches (in English) - USA, December 2020
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Virtual Table Nossa Direção em Jogo hosted by Luana Proença with Andrei Moscheto, Edson Duavy and Marta Borges (in Portuguese) - Portugal, April 2021.
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Virtual Table Our Director Role as Improvisers hosted by Luana Proença with Aree Witolear, Dawn McMillian and Kasia Chmara (in English) - Portugal, April 2021.
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Virtual Table Nuestro Rol Director en La Impro hosted by Luana Proença with Feña Ortalli, Lorna silva and Mariana Palau (in Spanish) - Portugal, May 2021.
Irreverente - International Impro Festival of Lisbon
Created by and Artistic Directed by André Sobral and Luana Proença
Produced by Embuscada
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The Festival intends to bring together the impro community living in Portugal with other countries, by promoting an event with activities in Theater, Dance, Music and other forms of art.
Our irreverence seeks to break preconceived concepts, about the art of improvisation and the art that is created in contemporaneity, questioning and reaffirming, and mainly, breaking with the idea that differences distance us. Saying "Yes, and", the motto of improvisation. “Yes” for us and other people, “and” create together something that finds its own new rules.
Our Mission: Deconstruct judgments and preconceptions about art, ourselves and about the art we make, in order to find out authenticity at the rhythm of the Tejo river waves.
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2023 Edition: July 26 to 29 in Lisbon (Portugal)
Theme: SPACES
The space of the scene, real and imaginary.
Outer space and the space between us.
Ellipsis…
The space of silence, of time, of what is hidden, and of the present.
Gathering space.
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Jelly Jam - Impro Theater Jam
Improv Jams are in English & Portuguese. If you're an improviser in Lisbon and you want a place to play these Jams are for you!
It happens every 1st Tuesday of every month. FREE 2 Play -or- €1 to watch
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Created, Produced and Hosted by Luana Proença and Stephen Thornton
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Venue: R. Actor Vale 16, Lisbon (Portugal)
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Impro.Lab Project (Classes)
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IMPRO.LAB is a project of open class about improvisation in Lisbon (Portugal).
We offer classes in Portuguese and English on-line and presential.
Information: https://www.facebook.com/projetoimprolab
Our Direction on Stake: Directing is Part of Improvising (Book)
This is a workbook with exercises to do by yourself at home and also as a group in your theater.
If improvisers are actors, writers and directors at the same time when they improvise, so directing is part of improvising.
The book have 19 exercises to work the directing side of the improviser, the direction that our improvisation takes (as we also choose) while we are improvising.
This is part of Luana Proença's PhD research at Lisbon's University.
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The workbook is available in different prices, as you can choose your best way to contribute for this work. New times, new ways to approach our economy, right? You can pay 5€, 10€, 15€, 20€ or 30€ for the e-book.
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Luana Proença also teaches classes about the topic, and you can combine this two experiences: the Workbook and the classes! Get in contact and schedule it! See it below!
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For the English version OUR DIRECTION AT STAKE: Directing is part of Improvising: https://payhip.com/LuanaProenca/collection/our-direction-at-stake
Have You Ever Wondered If...? Questions for Teaching Impro (Book - 2020)
A book written by 12 women from different countries in Latin America and Spain that participated of the Feminist Pedagogical Laboratory La Otra Esceña, with a view to reflecting on classroom practices regarding diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Click here to download the book for free. You will find in Spanish, English, French, Catalan, Portuguese and Euskera.
Next to the download button you will find one to make a donation whose goal is the next step in our project: print it out. This is completely voluntary.
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Feminist Pedagogical Laboratory La Otra Esceña (2020)
Agostina Viglietta, Brenda Barrantes Requeno, Claudia Bernabé Canals, Elba Ruiz Morales, Laura Andrés Morell, Luana Proença, Mariana Palau, María Pérez Ramis, Raquel Racionero, Sata García Molinero, Soledad Cardigni, Zahira Montalvo Herrero
Illustrations: Carito Delgado
Design: Sata García Molinero
Translation
Original Title: "Alguna vez te has preguntado si...? Preguntas para la docencia de Impro" (2020)
Translation: Luana Proença and María Pérez Ramis
English review: Ella Galt
Podcast Status Magazine - PT
STATUS Impro Magazine is an online and monthly publicatiton about Improvisation.
This project is directed by Feña Ortalli and is published in Spanish, English, French an Italian.
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Luana Proença translates STATUS to Portuguese since June 2019, and until June 2023 the Portuguese translation had its published version. Since July 2023, Luana Proença and Davi Salazar translate the magazine to Portuguese in an written version (Blog Revista impro Status - PT) and audio version in the Podcast Status - PT where they read the articles and comment them.
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Subscriptions and more information about the magazine: click here.
It Was Necessary To Listen to Other Voices
(Audiovisual Documentary 2019)
Original title in Portuguese: "Era preciso ouvir outras vozes".
Available on YouTube with subtitles in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EviKrWSU2cY
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Interviews with improvisers from Brazil, USA, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala, Porto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Spain, France, Romania, Poland, Greece, UK, Reunion Island, Australia and Israel.
Lili Lab - Improvisation Laboratory for Women (Lisbon)
This continuous laboratory is a research work seeking a feminist approach in performing arts and storytelling based on improvisation. In Lilimprov, we want to explore questions like: How do we want to represent women on stage? How can we communicate our women's narrative and perspective to the audience through the arts? How can we create diversity in the media we use?
We would like to invite women from the artistic community to join us in seeking new perspectives or to contribute with new research questions. We see this as an open research to ask the dumb and intelligent questions. We will bring our material and you can bring your suggestions on what you would like to explore and test as well. To quote the book by our dear Luana Proença: "We take the first step, you take the next, and the impact of this will continue to affect us in its proportional intensity.”
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The LiliLab happens in English or in Portuguese, for all levels and diversities of the English and Portuguese language.
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Produced by Lilimprov:
Lilimprov is a theatre group residing in Lisbon uniting women artists from Brazil, Portugal and Germany. We are working within the realm of physical theatre, object theatre, improvisation, and Dance. Our research is dedicated to the representation of women in history, society and on stage.
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Lilimprov members are: Anne Buntemann, Isadora Lima, Luana Proença and Rita Tavares.
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Blog Visando Impro
Blog in Portuguese about Impro for the Project VISANDO IMPRO.
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It is Luana's journal of her classes and shows watched at Second city Hollywood (2018) and Festivals (2018/2019).
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