IMPROV ART

I have been studying Improvisation with G.Hofman Soto since 2005 (with some breaks). He is actually the teacher who inspired me to become an improvisation artist. I remember doing a solo improvisation and him coaching me to go so personal and deep, it was like a therapy session, yet it touched and inspired everybody who watched me - afterwards I thought: this is what I was born to do. On this day in 2005 I decided to become a performance artist.
Now I have been in his class for over two years and we just had our first paid performance. I actually was able to work through a major text block that I had had for about two months - meaning I was holding myself back and wasn't able to just allow what was inside me to come out. Improvisation has so much to do with being transparent and in full contact with oneself. Whatever is in the subconscious will come out when one truly improvises and that is what makes it interesting, but if there is suppression of subconscious stuff, nothing can come out. That's basically the place I was in. It was a bit frustrating, but coming back into my flow was all the more beautiful.
In the performance I did a beautiful piece on loving a big man and losing him to a big woman, because I was too small boned and skinny - an interesting reversal of the beauty standard. The other piece I did was a collaborative story with 3 other people about a very invasive mother, which was hilarious and got many laughs.
Improvising together as a group is quite complex: there has to be huge trust that the others will support what I bring up and everybody has to listen to everybody else with all their faculties. Sometimes I am in front with the whole group behind me and turning around to look is simply not an option. So I have to somehow sense what they are doing and fit in, as much as they have to support me, since they know I cannot see them.
Improvisation is a beautiful craft that hones so many skills and the feeling of being totally in the moment, expressing my truth, while other people are doing the same and it all blends together into a beautiful, inspiring piece - all this together is indescribable.