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KJ7 – Enjoy the silence
[INTERIOR: WAITING ROOM] – Lights UP! A man is sitting reading a magazine slowly turning the pages. The sound of each one is all you can hear until the rustle of his pants as he crosses his legs. A woman enters the room and sits right next to him, uncomfortably close. He looks up and back at his magazine trying to ease away from her slightly without being obvious. She exhales with a snort of indignation … Read entire article »
Filed under: General, Keith Johnstone, Performing Improv, Teaching Improv, Theater Games
KJ5 – Quiet mind or LOUD mind
Notes from Keith Johnstone retreat, August 11, 2009 Can you to stop your thoughts for 1 minute? Try it now – just sit, breathe and don’t think. I’ll wait… How did it go? Unless you have a daily meditation practice, it can be very hard to quiet your mind. That’s normal for most of us. Now try the opposite. Pick a nursery rhyme or line from a song you know well – something like “Bah Bah Black … Read entire article »
Filed under: General, Keith Johnstone, Performing Improv, Teaching Improv, Workshops
KJ3 – Game Theory
Notes from Keith Johnstone retreat, August 2009 All improvisers have played any games. There are books, websites, and games passed on in classes and from player to player. There is a particularly good set of them in my friend Williams Improv Playbook. The point of the games is to play them. The play them again and again. But not to get better at them, in fact in many cases you are . But when you do think … Read entire article »
Filed under: Keith Johnstone, Theater Games, Workshops
KJ2 – Learning – Failure is the only option
Notes from a Keith Johnstone retreat – August 8, 2009 I wanted to learn the unicycle, so I went out and bought one. After 15 minutes I gave up and put it away until a friend of mine told me it takes 6 hours to learn. So I tried again and learned to ride in 5 hours. (paraphrased from Keith’s lecture) … Read entire article »
Filed under: Keith Johnstone, Performing Improv, Teaching Improv, Theater Games
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