Method & philosophy

An embodied approach to improvisation

Impro Supreme is the synthesis of twenty years of practice, research and teaching.

Rooted in physical acting, clown, improvisation and perceptual training, this method reconnects your imagination to your body — and your body to your imagination.

Its purpose is simple: to train a way of creating that is clear, free and fully alive.

A clear and coherent system

Impro Supreme stands on four pillars – four orientations that shape the entire method:

1. The body is the source

Everything begins physically.

Movement is the origin of clarity, presence and expression.

If the body isn’t engaged, improvisation collapses into disembodied ideas.

2. Attention is the method

What you notice determines what you create.

Attention is the conscious mind in action – you directorial intelligence.

Improvisation depends on seeing and understanding what is actually happening.

3. Interpretation is physical

Your imagination is active – it gives direction.

Meaning emerges through embodied interpretation, not mental invention.

If the interpretation isn’t physical, clear and readable, it doesn’t exist on stage.

4. Choice is the craft

Improvisation is the art of choosing — moment by moment, honestly and without hiding.

Technique gives you real choices, and clarity allows you to assume them fully. Your decisions are the visible expression of artistic involvement.

Together, these four pillars form a system that is both disciplined and free:

physical → attentive → interpretive → decisive.

The method in practice

Impro Supreme works through a series of physical–imaginative disciplines shaped over two decades of teaching and performing.

It combines:

the clarity of physical acting
the freedom of clowning
the intelligence of free improvisation
the perceptual sensitivity of dance and mime

The goal is not virtuosity but clarity — a body that supports imagination, an imagination connected to reality, and a presence that remains readable from moment to moment.

What this method develops in you

What you develop over time:

Physical clarity and expressive presence
An imagination grounded in sensation and emotion
Sharper perception and moment-to-moment awareness
The courage to choose and the intelligence to assume your choices
Creative freedom grounded in technique, not guesswork
A coherent relationship between feeling, action and meaning

This is the individual foundation of improvisation — the part no troupe, format or “game” can give you unless you train it deliberately.

Why I teach this

Because this work creates meaning — one moment at a time.

Theatre begins long before performance: in how we move, what we notice and the courage it takes to respond honestly.

I teach this because training the body sharpens imagination, because perception deepens expression and because clear choices create a form of freedom that is simple, grounded and alive.