EPFL Performance Lighthouse offers movement improvisation workshops on the campus, for EPFL students and staff.

Past workshops :

• Vivapoly 2025
• During the Spring semester 2024-2025, every other Tuesday, in the MED hall.
• LUNCHenPHILO #17 “Are engineers improvisers ?”, at the Rolex Learning Center, in Novembre 2024.

These workshops introduce participants to improvisation techniques developed in the performing arts, particularly dance, and explore their possible transposition to collective work practices in engineering and science.

The workshops are led by Simona Ferrar, accompanied by alumni students from the SHS Improgineering course. Dancer and performance artist, Simona Ferrar, leads the projects of the Performance Lighthouse, which promotes performance art projects by and for EPFL students.

For further information or if you wish to organize a workhsop on the campus, please contact Simona Ferrar

Video by the students that led the LUNCHenPHILO #17 improvisation workshop

The six students that led this workshop followed the Improgineering course within the EPFL SHS (Social Sciences and Humanities) programme. The workshop followed the LUNCHenPHILO #17 event held on the 13th of November at the Rolex Learning Center, at EPFL.

Concept and animation : Mathilde Richard & Marguerite Thery with the support of Prof. Simon Henein

Performers : six SHS Improgineering course alumnae students : Julia Morin, Nina Mosca, Julia Ravagnani, Mathilde Richard, Marguerite Thery, Eglantine Vialaneix

Filming and editing of the improvisation workshop video : Chiara Freneix, EPFL student