On January 16, 2026, we celebrated Atlas, impros du monde - Bruxelles' 2nd anniversary with a multilingual improv night at the Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles! Thank you for joining us and diving with us into the world of multilingual theatrical improvisation through two incredible shows ! Photos @ closing.photography In the first part of the evening, you attended the show “ Scenes of Improvyglot ” , performed by participants from the Improvyglot multilingual improvisati

HISTORY In 2023, Laurie Andrieu and Dan Gelbard, actors and improvisation theatre trainers, came up with the idea of offering multilingual improvisation workshops to break down language barriers and allow people to meet, play, and connect. Winners of the BeTalky project call from the Brussels-Capital Region, they created “Improvyglot,” a project consisting of 12 multilingual improvisation workshops and a participant-led performance. The project brought together people from 7

In the beginning, there were constraints. Constraints that became engines for creation and experimentation. In 2019, Laurie Andrieu collaborated with DoucheFlux, a daytime shelter for homeless individuals, to offer improvisation workshops to their beneficiaries. Each month brought a major challenge, as no one knew which languages the participants would speak, nor how well they would understand French or English—it was a leap into the unknown. A clear need emerged: to design w

On January 24, 2025, you were there at the Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles to dive with us into the world of multilingual improv theatre with two shows presented by ASBL Atlas, impros du monde – Bruxelles ! Photo credit @allez__zou At the beginning of the evening, you attended the show Scenes of Improvyglot , performed by the participants of the multilingual improvisation workshops Improvyglot . A beautiful performance, full of madness and everyday poetry, inspired by wo