by Gary Schwartz | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog
The Group Games Model of Learning by Gary Schwartz Games are a natural group form. They provide personal, wholehearted, unselfconscious involvement in activities that allow us to feel free to absorb and integrate our experiences and add them to our growing knowledge...
by Gary Schwartz | Jan 7, 2019 | Blog
Do this, don’t do that! Like this! Here’s how I want it! That’s better! That’s rotten! That’s not funny! Now that was FUNNY! That’s what I want! – spoken by a director at a recent improv workshop I attended. If you teach or direct,...
by Gary Schwartz | May 21, 2018 | Blog
Space Walk Commentary (from the Theater Game File Handbook by Viola Spolin: published by Northwestern University Press) Space Walks and Feeling Self with Self, more than just physical sensory and perception exercises, are organic ways of...
by Gary Schwartz | Mar 31, 2018 | Blog
“Information is a very weak form of communication” – Spolin I have been working with Spolin Games for the last thirty years. I first began in an improv comedy class learning how to be fast and funny with a group of very talented actors, who are still playing. Then, by...
by Gary Schwartz | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog
“Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.” – Viola Spolin Creativity is a state that allows us to touch the unknown and to bring it into the phenomenal world: To make the invisible visible. The unknown is a territory that holds all possibilities, until...
