Improvisation Technique
David FinkelsteinA practical approach to improvised performance, for actors, dancers, and musicians.
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DANCERS ON THEIR NIGHT OFF: OPEN MOVEMENT
Note: this is my first published piece of writing, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 1985 issue of Contact Quarterly. It describes Open Movement, a weekly dance jam event in New York City, which still continues today after forty years.
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EXERCISES: HANDS AND VOICE TOGETHER
Here’s a very useful set of exercises in which you can use your hands and your voice together, to help you to more physically understand the concept of “using your voice (and words) as a tool to feel the flow of the scene.” In everyday life...
A GREAT WARM-UP EXERCISE
This is a great warm-up exercise, which works on many levels at once to prepare an actor for improvisation.
Choose a song which you enjoy singing, and know well. It doesn’t matter what style of song it is.
Sing it in three versions:
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THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
When you’re performing a scene from a script, or even just a scene with an outline, a traditional way of structuring your work is to play your character’s motivation. But this won’t work in a completely open improvisation, because you don’t...
WHAT IS CONFIDENCE?
Most improvisors have a sense that “having confidence” is necessary for a scene to go well, and that they can be thrown off by lacking confidence. But what exactly is this confidence? A misunderstanding of the idea of confidence can lead to...
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Film critic; teacher of improvisation technique for actors, dancers, and musicians; award-winning filmmaker.
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