Business and Improvisation
Below is a listing of publications about improvisation and organizational success that was compiled by Shea Elmore and originally appeared on the Playing with Reality website. Thanks for sharing this, Shea! There is a relatively new field of “applied improvisation” that takes the tools and techniques used by improvisers into workplaces and communities. This emerging […]
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Danger Lair: From Moscow with Love
Aces and Operatives, the world’s only James Bond 007 themed role-play group, and Moscow 57, the Russian Central Asian restaurant and live-music venue on New York City’s Lower East Side, have announced a new co-production. On December 13, 2014, they will present Danger Lair: From Moscow With Love: an immersive, transformative, Cold War, spy […]
A Serious Banquet
A Serious Banquet is a devised piece structured around the party Picasso threw for the painter Henri Rousseau in 1908 as recorded by Gertrude Stein in “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.” The piece that gives a sense of what it’s like to be inside a Picasso painting – to explore the […]
Digital puppeteering and identity
Digital puppeteering offers the potent ability to inhabit a character that is far outside of your own “type,” whether in gender, age, race, or other defining demographic element. With online access to information supporting the illusion that the virtual puppeteer is a subject matter expert, and the eventual programmatic capacity to modify voice and translate […]
A message from the universe…
Karen Montanaro is a friend from Maine who does great work in bringing arts to to the world of education. She has this deal where she gets emails from the universe every now and then. She was kind enough to share one with me that she received. It is so appropriate to what I do […]
Small talk
I used to think that “small talk” was just a way in which inter-actors kept themselves safe and avoided getting to the real meat of a scene. Then, by chance, I started training inter-actors to create one-on-one scenes that could last up to 60 minutes. It turns out that small talk can be very useful. […]
Game and Story
Today, while doing my laundry at the laundromat, I saw the Olympics playing on the television and a thought arose. I’m not sure if I agree with myself on this, but I’m going to try it on for size. Games are when the players compete. Stories are why we care about the players. hmm…
Introduction to interactive performance
Bear in mind that the thoughts on this page are my perspectives on interactive performance. There are other definitions and perspectives out there that are completely different and equally valid. -Jeff What is interactive performance? Interactive performance is any performed experience in which audience members become co-creators of a performed experience, through the facilitation of […]
TERP
The TERP system is a tool designed for human movement composition without rehearsal. TERP experiments with movement instructions to find those that are meaningful to regular people. Think of it like a voiced GPS for groups of non-dancers! At the TERP event, you will be wearing on your arm a small computer that is […]