General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.
Viola SpolinTheater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.
Viola SpolinWhen student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.
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