Performing Arts · Theatre Practice
A topic within Theatre Practice, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
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Keith Johnstone
Argues spontaneity is not a rare gift but a skill blocked by fear of failure, and that status transactions between characters, not clever ideas, are what make improvised scenes cohere.
R. Keith Sawyer
Argues that the moment-to-moment process by which improv actors build a scene with no script — proposing, accepting and building on each other's offers — is not a stage-only skill but the same emergent, collaborative mechanism that produces novelty in unscripted everyday social interaction.
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