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Improvise Freely: Throw away the rulebook and unleash your creativity

Improvise Freely: Throw away the rulebook and unleash your creativity - Paperback

by Patti Stiles
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Availability:In StockContributor:Patti StilesPublish date:2021-08-14Pages:246
Language:EnglishPublisher:Big Toast EntertainmentISBN-13:9780645176506ISBN-10:645176508UPC:9780645176506Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Improvisation, Theater, FilmBook Topic:Miming, Direction & ProductionSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD2KZKMBF

Improvisation is a vibrant art of spontaneity and impulse. Audiences the world over flock to shows where 'anything could happen!' But lurking at the heart of many companies that perform it is a contradiction, a bait and switch. Students who sign up for classes are taught 'The Improv Rules': the strictly right and wrong way to be creative. Exploration is replaced with emulation and curiosity with compliance. How the hell did that happen?


Patti Stiles is an internationally respected improvisor, actor, director and teacher whose performance skills and deep understanding of the work shine out on stage and in the workshop room.


In Improvise Freely, she shows how 'rules' meant to guarantee success actually confine us in a counterfeit appearance of spontaneity and hamper our creativity. She turns 'The Rules' on their head and shows that other approaches are possible.


Is it okay to ask questions? Why must we Who What Where? And what if ' Yes, And' isn't all it's cracked up to be?


This book encourages us to explore the labyrinth ourselves, rather than follow a tour guide. Instead of handing us a map, Ms. Stiles offers us a light.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Big Toast EntertainmentISBN-13:9780645176506ISBN-10:645176508UPC:9780645176506Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Improvisation, Theater, FilmBook Topic:Miming, Direction & ProductionSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD2KZKMBF
Stiles, Patti: - Patti Stiles is a professional actor, director and teacher who specializes in Improvisation. She was trained by Keith Johnstone at the Loose Moose Theatre Company (the birthplace of Theatresports(TM)) in Canada. She has an infectious enthusiasm for improvisation. Mix this with her insightful improvisation technique, strong narrative skill and her spirit of play, and it is no wonder she is responsible for inspiring many hundreds of people to improvise. Her understanding of Johnstone's work and philosophy, combined with her own discoveries and her wealth of experience on the world impro stage, has made her a must have teacher for performers and companies wishing to create spontaneous theatre with fine skill, strong narrative, heart and elegant style. The Canadian press has endowed her with the titles Impro Doyen and Queen of Improvisation.
Publisher: Big Toast Entertainment

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