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Exits and Entrances

Exits and Entrances

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Games, Improv Games, Lecture / Explanation, Theory

Exits and Entrance – discussion Judgment and Other Blocks to Improvising The more blocked or opinionated the student, the longer the process.  The more blocked and opinionated the teacher, the  longer the process.  My Big Breakthrough. The story I relate in this...
Improv Odyssey

Improv Odyssey

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games

No Motion Warm-Up

No Motion Warm-Up

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Give and Take, Improv Games, Lecture / Explanation, Refining Awareness

No Motion – Action at a simmer The concept of No-Motion is a quiet holding onto a moment for as long as one can, before it becomes static. As you go into no-motion it is both a thing to do and a thing to hold (like a mantra). When in No-Motion you are the eye of...
Exits and Entrances explained

Exits and Entrances explained

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Improvisation for the Theater, Lecture / Explanation, Spontaneity, Warm Up Games

Exits and Entrance – discussion Judgment and Other Blocks to Improvising The more blocked or opinionated the student, the longer the process.  The more blocked and opinionated the teacher, the  longer the process.  My Big Breakthrough. The story I relate in this...
Discussion / Lecture / Information

Discussion / Lecture / Information

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Lecture / Explanation

Space Substance and Follow the Follower   Side coaching and the Approval/Disapproval Syndrome Space Substance and Words Detailing the Object and Sidecoaching  A conversation with NPR freelance journalist Carol Grey and Valerie...
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• The response of an audience is spontaneous (even when the response is boredom), and with rare exception (as when large numbers of friends and relatives are present), can be considered just. If the actors realize that they do not face a “put-on” response, they can then play with the audience as they would with another team. An actor can be reassured, “If they were a bad audience, then, of course, they deserve to be punished.”

— Viola Spolin, Improvisation for the Theater

Viola Spolin is the internationally recognized originator of Theater Games – the basis of improvisational theater. Along with her son, Paul Sills, Viola Spolin created the techniques utilized by the cast of Chicago’s Second City as well as every other improvisational comedy troupe ever since.

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Gary Schwartz worked closely with Viola Spolin from 1976 – 1994, and have worked closely with members of her family during that time to the present. However, this site does not necessarily represent the views of Viola Spolin, Paul Sills and other members of her family, and has not been authorized or endorsed by them.