{"id":655,"date":"2019-10-17T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timtheater.lemon.be\/?p=655"},"modified":"2019-10-21T06:48:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T06:48:30","slug":"if-interaction-in-theater-really-runs-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timtheater.be\/en\/doelgroepen\/samenleving\/als-interactie-in-theater-echt-in-twee-richtingen-loopt\/","title":{"rendered":"When interaction in theater really runs both ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playing improvisational theater is giving and receiving<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We resolutely choose improvisational theater at TIM Theater because for us it is a strong way to make the theme as relevant to the audience as possible. Because of the interactivity, each performance is different even though it deals with the same theme and we use the same scene set-ups. We zoom in on the meanings and interests the audience gives to the theme through our questions. And that can vary considerably depending on age, context, region,...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversely, we often learn new things that we take back to subsequent performances, so a TIM performance only continues to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this sense, interactivity runs both ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our TIMs are mainly played on demand, and so is usually for a closed or defined audience: at a study day, in a company,... Also, we are often a part of a larger program.
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Thematic improvisational theater for everyone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So this season, we decided to occasionally host our own TIM performance for open audiences, so that anyone can come and see a TIM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For our performances on Dementia<\/a> and Warm Care<\/a> by the way, there is a major collaboration in the pipeline with a healthcare organization, which will mean that those two performances will be set up regularly for open audiences in the future!
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Learning together about poverty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago we played arMoed at the Wagehuys in Leuven. We realized even more then how valuable it is to set up our TIMs in separate open programs. After all, every spectator chose freely to come and watch. Nothing else is programmed either, so it's not something that comes with it. And even though we usually experience a great deal of audience involvement in TIMs, that evening was invaluable.
You can here<\/a> read what was put forward from public in relation to thresholds in leisure activities for people in (opportunity) poverty, and how to lower them.

We left the scene with all kinds of feelings about spectators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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