GII Symposium 2026

This session aims to promote discussion on vulnerability as a central and philosophical axis of contemporary theatrical improvisation, moving it beyond the exclusive sphere of play, risk, and light entertainment. The analysis begins with the play "WILD IMPROVISATION" (authored and directed by Aline Bourseau), which adopts long-form improvisation as a form of dramaturgical discourse capable of addressing viscerality, chaos as an aesthetic language and carefully planned narrative discourse, and socially "savage" or marginalized themes, or those not popular within improvisation (such as domestic violence, abuse, hate speech, etc.). The connections between improvisation and philosophical concepts of freedom, becoming, imbalance, ethics, and the Deleuzian "violent encounter" with what is "Outside" will be explored, proposing a technique not only as a performing tool but also as a thought practice and an ethical-aesthetic exercise of (re)existence. The debate will focus on how performative surrender and the abandonment of defenses—vulnerable improvisation—create a territory of investigation that allows reflection on the human in its constitutive contradiction: the boundary between the civilized and the visceral.