About Impro Supreme
A physical approach to improvisation and acting
Impro Supreme is built on the connection between body and imagination — the foundation of expressive, truthful and creative acting.
It helps performers develop clarity, presence and artistic freedom through a structured physical approach rooted in clown, mime and movement.
Caspar Schjelbred
Acting and improvisation teacher since 2006
I teach improvisation and physical acting with a simple conviction: expressive creativity starts in the body — not in ideas, tricks or psychological speculation.
For almost two decades I’ve worked with actors, improvisers, dancers, comedians and other performers to build a solid individual foundation so they can be clear, free and alive on stage.
Why Impro Supreme exists
Most acting and improvisation training skips the body.
People learn games, formats, character tricks and story tools – but not the physical clarity, perceptual training or individual discipline that make a performer compelling.
Impro Supreme exists to help you:
- build a presence that is readable, alive, and grounded
- reconnect imagination with the body
- express ideas through action rather than talk
- understand what you’re doing as you’re doing it
- develop a technical practice that doesn’t rely on group structures
This is the individual foundation of improvisation — the part no workshop or troupe can give you if you don’t train it consciously.
The Impro Supreme method
A physical–imaginative training system
Impro Supreme distills years of practice into a method based on three core elements:
1. Physical expression
Clarity through movement, mime and gesture
Thought is faster than the body. If physical expression isn’t trained deliberately, improvisation collapses into pure imagination with no stage reality.
You learn to move with intention, precision and emotional integrity.
2. Creative intelligence
Courage, judgment and choice
Improvising means composing with what you do and what you don’t do.
You train timing, rhythm, restraint, boldness and responsibility — the ability to understand what’s happening in real time.
3. Perceptual awareness
Attention, feeling and imaginative presence
The world is full of information – most performers don’t use it.
You learn to notice details, feel what’s happening and stay connected to the reality of the moment so your imagination can respond truthfully.
This is the foundation of presence.
How it all began
My path (short version)
I discovered improvisation in Paris in the early 2000s. It changed everything.
I began in the Keith Johnstone tradition – playful, spontaneous, story-driven improvisation – but soon felt the limits of a practice that lived mostly in the head and rarely involved the whole body.
Meeting Ira Seidenstein in 2008 was the turning point.
With him, I understood improvisation as a physical, creative and conscious act – not verbal invention or personality-driven entertainment.
Years of training with Ira, along with key influences like Mary Overlie, Julyen Hamilton and my ballet teacher Michèle Bonneau, reshaped my understanding of attention, movement and presence.
Impro Supreme was born in 2010 — a synthesis of physical acting, improvisational intelligence and perceptual clarity, refined through teaching and performing across Europe.
Voices from the training
A few words from performers who have experienced the Impro Supreme approach.
The Impro Supreme workshop was an incredible experience because I now feel better connected to my physical self as I explore characters and relationships in improvisation.
Caspar is a wonderfully intelligent and experienced teacher who is able to motivate while also making you laugh and feel comfortable exploring your own creativity.
John Mabey
Improv actor & playwright
This method changes your whole outlook on improvisation and the creative process. Improv at its most exciting, fresh and deep level.
I consider this workshop one of the best I’ve ever done – and a lot of the things we did are still central to my understanding of improv and storytelling.
Koenraad Coel
Improv actor & musician
Impro Supreme has been most useful to me in terms of knowing new methods of work, acquiring new skills and mostly identifying my weak spots that need work and improvement.
Corneliu Dragomirescu
Actor
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