by Gary Schwartz | May 29, 2014 | Blog
“If you can get it out of the head and into the body…Body, Mind, Intuition. This is what we’re after. Body, Mind, Intuition” – Viola Spolin The quote above was directed to sixty teachers in a workshop Viola ran and which I assisted. I’ve had...
by Gary Schwartz | May 14, 2014 | Blog, Creativity, Games, Improvisation for the Theater, Spontaneity, Theory
Improvisation: Beyond Process is Celebration A profile of Viola Spolin and my talk about the first exercise I did in her workshop.
by Gary Schwartz | May 14, 2014 | Blog
Solving my “Shut-Off” “My work is not Psychodrama!! Never use your own tears! Use the character’s tears!” Viola proclaimed this very emphatically when we would try to work out our personal problems in a scene. Some actors in our workshop...
by Gary Schwartz | May 14, 2014 | Blog
Using Space objects is not pantomime. As I wrote about in my previous blog, http://www.improv-odyssey.com/out-of-the-head-and-into-the-space/ Space object and work with contacting the where is one aspect of this work. As Viola puts it in her Handbook for the Theater...
by Gary Schwartz | May 3, 2014 | Blog
My First Encounter with the Mother of Improvisation I was living in Hollywood, tending bar, performing comedy and mime in local cafes and trying to break into show business like thousands of other hopefuls from all over the country. A dear friend of mine called from...
