Teaching

The following books are interesting guides that help in the educational process in improvisation theater, transmitting knowledge and techniques through practice.

101 juegos teatrales para grupos: De actuación e improvisación (Ángel Serrano Laguna)
/ 17 de December de 2019

Are you a theater teacher and need material for your classes? Are you an actor and want to get together with others to explore acting techniques? Are you the director of a company, amateur or professional, and want to test the abilities of your actors? Or are you a fan who just wants to have a good time being silly with his friends? If the answer is yes, this is your book. It is divided in two parts. In the first, you will find 101 theatrical games, organized into four categories: In the second part, you can find 6 theater sessions that combine games from the four categories, classified by difficulties: This book can be obtained in digital format for less than €10

Answers from Improv Teachers (David Escobedo)
/ 13 de December de 2019

David Escobedo, a recent Hollywood transplat, asked the popular improv teachers from all over England common questions found in improv. The diversity of their answers offers different views and insight that can help you on your improv journey. Great content to quote for research or creating online content for your own improv page.

101 Improv Games for Children and Adults (Bob Bedore)
/ 3 de June de 2019

What is the big deal about improv? It’s fun. It strengthens our imagination, promotes self-confidence, increases spontaneity, promotes teamwork, and it’s magic: it creates something out of nothing. 101 IMPROV GAMES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS contains the basics: what improv is all about and how to do it, special instructions for how to teach improv to children, plus more advanced training on how to use your voice and body in ways you haven’t thought of before. It has helpful hints for creating scenes and environments out of thin air. All this plus 101 games with simple instructions, from easy warm-up games to over-the-top crowd pleasers such as Fairy Tales, Bizarre Games, On Your Toes and Narrative Games. This is the tenth in the Hunter House SmartFun activity books series, and the first one for adults as well as children. The book is a great resource for educators as well as for the professional actor or the layperson working with improv for fun. The book contains lively illustrations and is easy to use. Improv is about creating something out of nothing, but a really good improviser can create something great out of nothing. This book shows you how.

La improvisación pedagógica y teatral (Georges Laferriére)
/ 31 de March de 2018

This book can be a valuable help for Dramatization and Theater Workshop teachers at different levels of education, as well as for actors, cultural entertainers and other groups that intend to work with the ‘improvisation meeting’, an intermediate activity between the game dramatic and the representation of a theatrical work. Improvisation is part of the didactic procedures that are grouped under the name of simulation and game. The work allows teachers to use improvisation as a didactic procedure that can develop in the student the skills of communication, expression, elocution, writing, analysis and criticism. It includes a good number of activities and exercises.

Improvisação como espetáculo (Mariana Lima Muniz)
/ 21 de March de 2018

Improvisation as a spectacle is a theatrical style where actors create dinners in no time, together with the public and in the heat of the day. This book presents a methodological proposal for teaching and learning improvisation, contextualized in the main artistic and technical experiences of improvisation as a spectacle from the second meta of the 20th century. It is the result of ten years of practical and theoretical research on the topic and aims to contribute to the technical and artistic development of improvisation as well as spectacle in our training processes in theater with adults and children.

Impro (Alfredo Mantovani, Borja Cortés, Encarni Corrales, José Ramón Muñoz Leza, Pablo Pundik)
/ 17 de March de 2018

IMPRO is a book that brings together, in clear and concise sheets, 90 creative proposals and games with easy-to-apply variants. It also includes a set of very useful guidelines and practical advice for people interested in impro and its pedagogy: teachers and theater groups, coaches, actors, educators of different levels, animators, students of theater and educational sciences who want to improve their training, as well as future improvisers who wish to develop spontaneity in the classroom and on stage. Its authors, Alfredo Mantovani, Borja Cortés, Encarni Corrales, Jose Ramón Muñoz and Pablo Pundik, are actors, improvisers and teachers with long theatrical careers, specialized in improv, who have come together in this publication to share their experiential background. Inventing and representing stories as a team and enjoying “improturgy”, the original concept of the authors of this work, becomes the core of a fun and pleasant job for actors or fans who want to explore the theatrical event from a playful perspective. It includes “Testimonies”, where Dani Rovira and a good handful of actors and actresses with a recognized background in theatrical improvisation offer us their experiences and reflections on this art.