Yesterday I went to see "From Morning". The evening was made up of two improvised works, a solo that felt improvised too but possibly wasn't, plus an installation piece, which involved lots of televisions screening two peculiarly amusing pieces: Duets for Objects and Duplicated Other by Florence Peake and Sally Dean.

I had really missed watching improvised performances (it's been a while, don't know why). But it wasn't all that great, unfortunately, yet there was something about the evening which moved me. I'm quite sure it was the pure excitement of witnessing something I knew was improvised, which was the case with at least two of the performances.

Improvisation gets me excited because it makes me feel included - even if not directly - but I know that everything present in the same room as an improvising body has an affect on what that body decides to do. Or at least how it decides to do it. So as I attentively notice what's present and what is happening, I'm engaged in a way I'm not at rehearsed performances.

I remember watching an improvised performance in Berlin about a year ago, it was by the London based collective Neat Timothy. It was very good. Improvisation being a bit hit-or-miss sometimes (because there's not always time for conscious decisions, and the unconscious might let you down - so might the conscious, but anyway more pressure!), it's worth every failed attempt when it finally does happen to be that alluring.

The collective is performing at tomorrow's episode of "Stranger than Fiction...", a platform celebrating improvisation in performance. So if you're in or around Angel Saturday evening, you should swing by the Church on the Corner. Other guest artists performing are Heide Moldenhauer from Berlin, and Marina Quay from London.

"Stranger than Fiction..."
Saturday 29 May at 7.30pm. Doors open 7.15pm - don't be late.
Church on the Corner, 64 Barnsbury Road, London N1 (Angel tube)
£5 (including refreshments)