Yes, a BIG Improvisation World tour Logo. Doesn't it make you want to sing a song? Nothing much here. Be creative today and come up with another use for this empty spot Improvisation World tour - the words just ring in your ears like a ringing thing that rings... in your ears This space for rent. Maybe for a small family from Borneo or an Orangutan. Hey YOU in Borneo stop destroying the forests and hurting those innocent Orangutans. What did they ever do to you?
Mime mask movement impro and improvisation of course and contact improvisation which is a little different. Ever done any scenography? Have you managed to read down theis far before the words dissapeared? Maybe you need a speed reading course? Orrrr how about a narrative story telling creativity spontanaiety jam session?

SUGGESTED READING...



 

  ...BY Improvisers around the world FOR Improvisers. 

- Please feel free to submit your own suggestions HERE

ANY BOOK worth Reading
* Books on Impro
* Books with great stories
* Books with pertty colours
...also movies and TV

Exercise your brain and imagination...
 

Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.       -Yehudi Menuhin

BOOK
 Impro for Story tellers Keith Johnstone created the masterpiece of impro improv and a little improvisation
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TITLE: IMPRO FOR STORYTELLERS
AUTHOR: KEITH JOHNSTONE
suggested by: Various People
COMMENTS: Considered by many as the 'ultimate' Impro book, Storyteller s is a great resource for EVERY Improvisers library no matter which school of Improvising you come from.  A suggested reading style is not so much cover to cover but flip it open, find a gem of wisdom and use it in your work...

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty
-Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence

 Hey! What's that mouse of yours doing over here? Have you lost control of your hand? Should I call someone for you? Are you having a stroke or something? Just let me know... unless maybe you turned into a zombie and are looking for living flesh to chew on, then uh... I'm busy for the next while... uh doing my... here.... ZOMBIE BOY!!!
nothing down here except all the wisdom in the universe - oooops I wasn't supposed to say that. Go about you business, I will tell you nothing more... (hint - think about the Ouroboros ) Welcome home to the Improvisation World tour page of entry HEY - You kids ! What's all that nosie upstairs? --- An Impro / Improv tour you say? Well count me in onthat puppy. When I was your age I would improvise 10 kilometres in the driving snow just to get to school.
What do you want to know about improvising? Blocking wimping Shelving? How about a little movement mime or monkeys? Did I say Monkeys?
Me me me me - Ohhhh let's talk about me for a moment.
Press here for Press. Global press and local and more buttons to press.
Ohhh mystery mystery... who love a mystery. You DO that's who!! I do you do we all do... enjoy the mysteries... dive into them. Step forward.
All the happy improvisers who have had workshops from Shawn Kinley. Well not all... but lots.
Get involved. Do something. Participate - It's a better way to live.
Don't look here. Nothing at all here. Ohhhh No. You'd be wasting your time sticking that mouse of your where it doesn't belong... don't put it there... take the mouse out of there. Ohhhhh.... poor mouse.
Propellor - contact - Engine - contact - improvise - contact... we are ready for take off
the Ouroboros - Do you know what the Ouroboros is? In Improvisation it might refer to re-incorporation... bring it all back, return to the beginnings, a mystical magical symbol
Hey... did someone rip this without telling me... Awwww come on!

When suggesting a book please include TITLE, AUTHOR, Who you are, AND COMMENTS.  ALSO... please send in opposing comments if you have them on a suggested title...
 

BOOK
 Impro the Improvisers Bible
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TITLE: IMPRO

AUTHOR: KEITH JOHNSTONE
suggested by: Various People
COMMENTS: Keith's first book.  Some people like this one more because of what some say is a 'warmer' style.  2nd half of the book is primarily about mask work. Other comments refer to the interesting insight on general human nature.

BOOK
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TITLE: BLINK
AUTHOR: MALCOM GLADWELL

suggested by: SHAWN KINLEY (Canada)
COMMENTS: GREAT insight on how we think and what goes on in our brains.  Super stuff in here for those wanting some insight on the "INTUITIVE MIND".  Really good book for teachers.  Wonderful view on how the brain improvises. Has a little section talking about Keith Johnstone.

Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget that there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests, they are thinking only of their God.
-Stephane Grappelli

BOOK
(Illustrated)
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TITLE:
A Short History of Nearly Everything

BOOK
(without Illustration)
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AUTHOR: BILL BRYSON
suggested by: Shawn Kinley (Canada)
COMMENTS: Know a little bit about everything.  A knowledge base makes better improvisers AND this guy is FUNNY and great to read!!!
 

BOOK
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TITLE:
The World According to GARP
AUTHOR: JOHN IRVING

suggested by: Marte Morland (Norway)
COMMENTS: To come...
 

The primary function of improvisation is to be expressive and emotional; to improvise, one must be in a certain state, and at the same time, improvisation, by inducing surprise and novelty, provides the interpreter with a special emotion that is perceived as the effect of a transcendental inspiration.
                                                                                  -Dariush Safvat

TV / DVD
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TITLE: 24 season 1
AUTHOR: various

suggested by:
Shawn Kinley (Canada)
COMMENTS: Oh yeah! Some great story telling in here ESPECIALLY for you LONG FORM wannabee improvisers.  Great for More or Less Format.  Does everything  good story telling should.
 

TV / DVD
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TITLE: 24 season 2
AUTHOR: various

suggested by:
Shawn Kinley (Canada)
COMMENTS: First is best but still some great story telling in here ESPECIALLY for you LONG FORM wannabee improvisers. 
 

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free...                                         - Henri Matisse

 

TV / DVD
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TITLE: 24 season 3
AUTHOR: various

suggested by:
Shawn Kinley (Canada)
COMMENTS: They keep taking risks and where most improvisers back off, this series shows the results of stepping forward.  Good to learn from
 

TV / DVD
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TITLE: 24 season 4
AUTHOR: various

suggested by:
Shawn Kinley (Canada)
COMMENTS: Yep... worth watching all of these... And the telling point is how many people say they couldn't just watch one episode... Just one more.. one more... ONE MORE...
 

 

Careful planning, and brilliant improvisation.
                                  - Eisenstein

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Imagination is more important than Knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

 

 
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