A place where improvisation becomes a way of life.
About Us
Total Improv is an international festival dedicated to improvisation in the arts — in theatre, dance, music, visual expression, and human connection.
It’s a space filled with movement, attention, and creative response.
On stage, in the city, in every encounter — this is where art is born, without scripts or plans.
Artists, musicians, dancers, researchers, and educators come together to co-create.
Workshops, labs, performances, jam sessions, conversations —
all emerge from a shared desire to explore, connect, and express.
Improvisation spills into the city — street acts, public performances, and movement gatherings bring locals and visitors into the process. The city starts to sound different when everyone has a voice in it.
It’s a space filled with movement, attention, and creative response.
On stage, in the city, in every encounter — this is where art is born, without scripts or plans.
Artists, musicians, dancers, researchers, and educators come together to co-create.
Workshops, labs, performances, jam sessions, conversations —
all emerge from a shared desire to explore, connect, and express.
Improvisation spills into the city — street acts, public performances, and movement gatherings bring locals and visitors into the process. The city starts to sound different when everyone has a voice in it.
What Is Total Improv?
Throughout the year, we:
Host the Total Improv Festival
Run educational programs for teachers, facilitators, and youth workers
Organize urban initiatives that bring improvisation into public life
Host the Total Improv Festival
Run educational programs for teachers, facilitators, and youth workers
Organize urban initiatives that bring improvisation into public life
Total Improv is a living international community of artists, educators, and researchers, united by the desire for presence, interaction, and exploration through improvisation.
Who We Are
- explore their creativity with courage
- meet across disciplines and cultures
- build trust, openness, and collective joy
We believe improvisation can be more than a technique.
It’s a way to be together, to grow, and to transform.
It’s a way to be together, to grow, and to transform.
We envision a space where people:
Our Vision
Total Improv Festival.
An annual gathering where participants and mentors meet for shared learning, co creation, and artistic experimentation.
Educational Programs.
Workshops and training focused on improvisational practice and inclusive learning, including tools for working with youth and vulnerable groups.
City-Based Actions.
Spontaneous performances, public interventions, and interactive formats that transform the urban space and invite community participation.
An annual gathering where participants and mentors meet for shared learning, co creation, and artistic experimentation.
Educational Programs.
Workshops and training focused on improvisational practice and inclusive learning, including tools for working with youth and vulnerable groups.
City-Based Actions.
Spontaneous performances, public interventions, and interactive formats that transform the urban space and invite community participation.
What We Do
Each contribution receives care, attention, and support.
We value the diversity of approaches, the depth of personal experience, and the willingness to share.
The festival grows through every voice, every idea, every action.
This is the essence of improvisation: something alive, shared, and created
мin the moment.
We value the diversity of approaches, the depth of personal experience, and the willingness to share.
The festival grows through every voice, every idea, every action.
This is the essence of improvisation: something alive, shared, and created
мin the moment.
Dancing on the sand?
A rooftop jam?
A dialogue in the dark?
Every idea finds a place.
A rooftop jam?
A dialogue in the dark?
Every idea finds a place.
Every initiative can become part of the festival: a training session, a laboratory, a workshop, a meaningful conversation, or a new format that doesn’t even have a name yet.
Total Improv is built as an open system, where each person
brings something unique.
We create the space for action:
rooms, venues, equipment, instruments, light, and sound.
Everything is ready for workshops, trainings, performances, jams, conversations, and collaborative creativity.
brings something unique.
We create the space for action:
rooms, venues, equipment, instruments, light, and sound.
Everything is ready for workshops, trainings, performances, jams, conversations, and collaborative creativity.
How It Works
Our Mission
Through the festival, educational programs, and city-based initiatives, we aim to:
- Develop and promote improvisation as a form of creative expression
- Create a space for dialogue between art and society
- Support practices rooted in attention, trust, and collective action
Total Improv is more than an event — it’s a community where improvisation becomes a way to be together, to grow, and to transform. It’s a way of being in the world.
Our mission is to create and cultivate a culture of improvisation as a way of connection, creativity, and presence.
We bring together artists, educators, researchers, and anyone committed to the values of improvisation to explore it as a form of art, communication, and learning.
We bring together artists, educators, researchers, and anyone committed to the values of improvisation to explore it as a form of art, communication, and learning.
Who Makes It Happen
Educator, curator, cultural producer. Kseniia works at the intersection of improvisation, education, and interdisciplinary arts. She curates the festival’s educational concept and program design, working with improvisation across both digital and analog practices.
Kseniia Oleinikova
Curator & Co-Founder
Curator & Co-Founder
Actor, improviser, program curator, and educator.
Amir creates work at the intersection of theatre, performance, and visual storytelling.
He leads artistic labs, street processions, and theatrical interventions within the festival.
Amir creates work at the intersection of theatre, performance, and visual storytelling.
He leads artistic labs, street processions, and theatrical interventions within the festival.
Amir Tagiev
Curator & Co-Founder
Curator & Co-Founder
See you.
Total Improv exists because of you.
Every voice, every gesture, every idea becomes part of the festival.
We’re honored to build this space together.
Every voice, every gesture, every idea becomes part of the festival.
We’re honored to build this space together.
To everyone who shares the spirit of improvisation —
To those who create, listen, guide, question, and play —
To our team, our partners, our community —
Thank you.
To those who create, listen, guide, question, and play —
To our team, our partners, our community —
Thank you.
Thank You
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