The SIN: Essays on Improv

Description

The SIN is a network of international improvisers in Europe that meets twice per year. The network aims to create an environment of support and collaboration across borders. It is our ambition to explore the art of improvisational theatre together as well as sharing advice and good practices on all organisation and production around improv. The ultimate goal is to boost improvisational theatre in local communities throughout Europe by working together and learning from each other within the international community.

This book is a snapshot of different insights, pedagogies, and good practice from some of the members of our group. We’re offering them to the wider community as a window into the thought and function of our group, and to further our aims of boosting improv in theatres around Europe. As teachers and theatre directors, we can all feel a bit isolated at times. The SIN as a group, and this book as an offering, are efforts to bring a feeling of community and the free exchange of ideas that help make this art form the beautiful thing that it is. We hope that everyone reading it feels supported, inspired, and perhaps even provoked. 

 

Contents

Improvisation and the Scientific Method

by Ben Verhoeven and Gael Doorneweerd-Perry

Narrative infinity – Why every movie or 

video-game-lover should try Improv

by Manuel Speck

IMPROVVOCAL – vocalimprovise your stories!

by Martina Pavone

Biology of Improv: Dominant and Recessive Skills

by Gael Doorneweerd-Perry

Love Languages in Improv

by Nora McLeese

It’s Improv, Bitch!

by Nora McLeese

How and Why to Write a Code of Conduct

by Stephen Davidson

YOU ARE SOMEONE

by Luana Proença

 

 

Edited by Hazel Dixon and Stephen Davidson