Silence and Creating a world from nothing.
This workshop is for improvisers or actors.
March Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd 2026
Take the stage, while moving with grace as you bring the audience into a world that has no words. Only movement, sounds, music and emotions. This workshop will change the way you tell a story. It will slow you down and make your work shine. This workshop will focus on space object work, breath, emotion and physical body work.
Silence
Letting silence empower the emotion on stage. How long can you hold the stage with silence without feeling like something must happen? Everyone has a different clock on when we feel a new call should be made. What if there were no other call? Can you hold the stage?
Tension
Learn to let the silence help you in building tension in a scene or story. We will work on exercises that force you to trust in the silence to help pull back the trigger and let it sit. This will leave your audience at the edge of their seats as well as add so much color to your scenes.
Movement
We will work on different types of movement. There is a time when we need speed, slowness, gentleness or bold harshness. You’ll learn how to change the tensions in scenes by applying different colors of movement in your stories.
Believability
Can you see the world, your building on stage? If you see it, then the audience will see it. You do not have to be an expert mime to improvise stories on stage. We will work on basic mime techniques to help you create the world you wish to build.
Emotions
As always in Scratch workshops, we will work with emotions. This will fill the scene where just mime technique leaves off. Adding both mime and emotion lifts your storytelling up an un
Space Object work
Do you really see what is in your hands, do you really see what is in your partner's hands? We must see it and feel it. We will work on slow exercises to train clean movement so the audience can really picture the setting.
We will coach you into a safe place so that you can freely work on being close both physically and emotionally with your fellow player.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to go deeper in your improv skills by being honest, slowing down, showing emotions, listening, and letting the silence play a major role. This class will have no emphasis on being funny. The comedy will come out of playing the scenes as true as possible.
This weekend workshop will be on March 21st and March 22nd.
The class is at FMP1, Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin
From 11-6 Saturday
11-4 on Sunday
This course will be taught by Robert Rodgers (biography below)
Costs 249 EUR, or Early Bird special of 225 paid by March 5th.
Robert Rodgers
Berliner Sparkasse
DE13 1005 0000 1068 0212 30
BELADEBEXXX
Finanzamt & Steuernummer: Pankow 31, 495/00 232
Please email robert@scratchtheater.com to let me know you have paid, as sometimes the payment can take a couple days to go through and I want to be sure you get your spot in the course! Also, let me know if there are any questions.
I’m looking forward to meeting you,
Robert
Biography: Robert Rodgers, founder and director
Robert is the founder of the Scratch Theater Improv School in Berlin and has trained players in a new way of performing, some new to improv and some looking for something different. A method based on emotion, rich characters, and narration that provokes the audience.
Scratch Theater was created in 1995 to explore long-form improv and to take it beyond what audiences have come to expect. Robert Rodgers trained at B.A.T.S in San Francisco as well as L.A.T.S in Los Angeles. He also trained under Rafe Chase from “3 For All” for years in the Bay Area and was part of the advanced training under “True Fiction Magazine” where he was guided under Barbara Scott, Regina Saisi, Tim Orr, Steven Kearin, and Rafe Chase. He has also trained under Keith Johnstone.
Taking his knowledge from improv theater, Robert also applied his knowledge of acting skills from where he was trained at A.C.T in San Francisco and also the S.F. Circus School where he studied movement, clowning and acrobatics. Robert has performed in repertory theaters, and a variety of circuses around the world, including Cirque Du Soleil. In 2005 Robert was asked to join L.A.T.S to perform and teach at the Amsterdam Improv Festival, which led him to return to teach both in Amsterdam and Paris numerous times. He then went on to direct many shows around the world where he used his improv skills, circus training and acting ability to actually create shows that inspire audiences to think differently about theater. His main focus has always been on how to bring forth the voice of each actor to rise above their own ego and lead everyone into stories that are imprinted in the audience’s memory.