Improvisation in drama, theatre and performance : history, practice, theory /
"Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery. This book opens up the significance of improvisation across cultures, histories and ways of performing our life, offering key insights into the what, t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and Preface to the Third Edition
- PART 1: WHO? MAJOR PRACTITIONERS OF IMPROVISATION
- Improvisation in training, rehearsal practice and writing (Europe and the UK)
- The improv scene (US)
- Improvisation in the creation of new modes of performance
- Improvisations for change: 'Paratheatre', participation and performance work beyond the stage
- Improvisation in non-western performance
- PART 2: WHAT? THE PRACTICE OF IMPROVISATION: IMPROVISATION EXERCISES
- Preparation
- Working together
- Moving towards performance
- Improvisation for Scene-Building
- PART 3: WHY? THE MEANINGS OF IMPROVISATION: TOWARDS A POETICS
- Enriching the communication of meaning
- Meaning and performance.