by Jason Blackwater 4/7/12 Train: Brighton to Heathrow It appears that improv pilgrimages start with a bacon and cheese baguette. I begin writing not on the plane or in the shadow of the Empire State Building or surrounded by new Converse trainers but on a 7:44 Gatwick Express service to Victoria. I’m travelling at about a mile...
For the Fringe show I wanted to work on a few things. First of all the idea of ‘Soup and Sermon’ which we got from our time working with Jason Chin. So the idea that the preacher gets the non believers into the Church with the Soup and then they stay for the Sermon. With...
By Rebecca MacMillan Magnus J. MacMillan wearing team colours! It’s great to get back to working with the Maydays again following the birth of my little boy Magnus. Sleep dep does funny things to your improv; it turns off the over-thinking bit of your brain that tries too hard to be clever and funny,...
The Fundamentals of Improv: ‘Yes and’ by Katy Schutte.
I was teaching a while ago when one of the students, started to look at me in a strange way, with an almost mystical look in his eye. When I asked why he told me that the excercise I was describing was almost exactly what he had been taught by his Aikido instructor a few...
In our current era of information overload and instant everything it seems that our attention spans are getting shorter. Much of our mental processing gets taken up by screening out input in order to find the information that we need. Personally I find it extremely difficult to use a browser that does not have Adblock Plus installed – and...
by Joe Samuel One of the joys of improvisation as a musician is the freedom from the ominous accuracy required when playing written music. So much store is set by striving for perfection when playing pieces that are written into the universal psyche of pianists across the centuries. How can I even dare to sit...
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