Companies

IMPROTOUR

Omar Argentino Galván, City of Buenos Aires. Teacher. Director. Actor. Researcher.
International reference in the research and dissemination of theatrical improvisation techniques.

Companies

IMPROTOUR

Omar Argentino Galván, City of Buenos Aires, September 12, 1970. Teacher. Director. Actor. Researcher.

International reference in the research and dissemination of improvisation techniques.
theatrical (Impro).

He wrote an Impro manual (Del Salto al vuelo) and an essay (“Yes, but, La improvisación en su encrucijada” which has been translated into four languages).

In 2017 he went around the world with workshops and shows. He worked in five continents, forty countries. He has forged his own particular and recognizable poetics.

He lives in Madrid. It builds bridges between people and Impro companies around the globe.

Organized and directed the “1st Impro World Cup in Spanish”, an event that brought together the seven
Latin America’s most important Latin American companies; it marked a turning point in the history of this
theatrical genre.

He has trained generations of improvisers in Argentina, Mexico and Spain. Master of masters; groups from Europe and America take his trainings.

It has also brought Impro closer to the training of company personnel.

The Shows

Only from 1mpro

Only 1mpro. An actor and a musician improvise theatrical pieces based on phrases written by the audience.

Improvisations that pay tribute to authors, genres and literary, cinematographic, television and, of course, theatrical styles: Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, verse, Shakespeare, horror…

The one-man show Solo de Impro is a bridge that unites theater and literature, as it explores literary genres and styles never before visited by improvisational theater, such as Cortázar style, García Márquez, Sábato, Borges, Poética tanguera, Shakespeare, Kafka, Divine Comedy, Beat Generation, biblical and many more. In addition to “classic” categories such as horror, suspense, police, Italian cinema…

Solo de Impro has been performed all over the world and has toured the most prestigious festivals. The show is totally interactive, based on free phrases that the spectators write at the beginning of the show and paste on the costumes that the improviser will wear.