Let's Get Intimate
with Chara Kanta
Sunday September 27th
2:30pm - 5:30pm
at 1113 Boul. de Maisonneuve E
3h | $80
This workshop is in English
This workshop explores the subtle, powerful world of intimacy in improvisation, not just romantic or physical, but emotional, energetic, and human. Through guided exercises, playful scenes, and reflective moments, we’ll dive into what it means to truly connect on stage: to listen deeply, to be vulnerable, to build trust, and to allow silence, eye contact, and breath to do as much as words.
We'll explore themes like boundaries and consent, emotional safety, and how to create authentic, compelling relationships in scenes—whether they’re tender, tense, or transformative. This is a space for curiosity, not performance; a place to practice being real, being seen, and holding space for others.
Open to all levels. Especially welcoming to those interested in grounding their improv in truth, presence, and care. Mostly non-verbal workshop, friendly for participants that are not native English speakers.
Chara Kanta is a multifaceted performer with expertise in acting, improvisational theater, and stagecraft. She also has experience in directing, editing, dance, painting and SFX makeup, transformations so striking that even her own mother wouldn’t recognize her. Since 2008, she has been actively engaged in theater, participating in a wide range of workshops and performances in both classical and contemporary productions. Her artistic focus revolves around Improv Theater, immersive theater, intimacy training and psychodrama.
Her training and performance experience include collaborations with the Municipal Theater of Rhodes, the National Theater of Rhodes, the Drama School of the Rhodes Scholarship Foundation (Emmanouil and Mary Stamatiou), the theater workshops of the advanced drama school NOTOS, a variety of theaters abroad and the Heraklion Improv Theater, where she remains as co-owner and teacher.
Beyond her work on stage, Chara has also made an impact as an educator. She has traveled to Romania, England, the Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Sweden, Nigeria, Poland, Italy, Chicago and beyond to teach workshops at festivals and within independent theater ensembles, sharing her expertise in improvisation and performance techniques.
Lately she also creates and directs original poetic narratives and improvisational formats that engage in dialogue with the structure and dramaturgy of classical theatre.
Find Chara at
@chara.kanta
Click here for a post of her latest intimacy workshop in Sweden Improv Festival