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