This book is a practical theoretical guide for improvisers, storytellers and artists in general to learn to tell better stories. It combines knowledge of cinema and theater to, through examples of well-known classes and films, provide valuable information about narrative structures, types of conflict, characters and their function and much more. It is a self-publishing, you can obtain it contacting the author directly: Pablo Boraquevich (@boraimpro) This book can be obtained in digital format for less than €10

Foreword by Omar Argentino Galván Everything in favor is the result of the study, research and implementation of the philosophy of theatrical improvisation (Improv) through 25 years of experience as an actor, director and improviser of its author, Omar Medina. All in favor is also the author’s pretext to make a review and generate a dialogue between various authors of theater theory, literature, directors and emblematic improvisers of the Impro theater discipline (Johnstone, Brook, Brecht, Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Chekhov, De Tavira, Calvino, Close, Juvera, Galván, et al.). Everything in favor is a book about philosophy, theater and also about the way of life that improvisation involves, not only in the theater, but taken into the daily life of any reader.

What if we play theater? What if we all have fun together, students and teachers, while learning fundamental dramatic techniques? Here is a guide to the auxiliary techniques of numerous expression games to practice dramatization. On our horizon, the fact that perhaps the group will then be encouraged to create its own play and perform it, or that it will be the student who wants to be the author of his or her own play and perform it as a whole. class… And beyond, to the limit: the joy and satisfaction of playing with theater.

This is a manual for children and young people of this century to learn how to do theater. A book aimed at educators and parents who want to offer their students and children one of the best tools known to expand their personal horizon. From the age of four to 17, theatrical exercises take place here in a simple and fun way with which children and young people will master body language. This manual shows us that guaranteeing theatrical experiences in the teaching of children and young people is an urgent task in which we must all be part.

For 20 years, Piolo Juvera has dedicated himself to the art of theatrical improvisation, which consists of telling, acting and singing stories. Stories and songs that have not been previously written or planned, which are created on the spot based on contributions from the public. In this book he shares how the teachings of “Improv” can be applied to one’s own life, which is the maxim of improvisations. The skills that must be developed to accomplish these stage feats are the same ones that the author chose as his life philosophy and that he now addresses in the book: listening, acceptance, decision, adaptation, speaking loudly and clearly, being in the here-and-now, play seriously, follow fear, fail in new ways, be the protagonist that your story needs, use error to your advantage. Improvisation is not an indecipherable entelechy. It can be an art. But it is also a technique. It has a methodology and rules that anyone can learn. The first and most important of those rules: the YES-AND. I say “YES” to your proposal “AND” I add something to make it ours. Commonly loaded with comedy, theatrical improvisation can also surprise us with stories that move and excite, that inspire…

A MASTERFUL BOOK ABOUT BREATHING LIFE INTO ART AND ART INTO LIFE “Stephen Nachmanovitch’s The Art of Is is a philosophical meditation on living, living fully, living in the present. To the author, an improvisation is a co-creation that arises out of listening and mutual attentiveness, out of a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity. It is a product of the nervous system, bigger than the brain and bigger than the body; it is a once-in-a-lifetime encounter, unprecedented and unrepeatable. Drawing from the wisdom of the ages, The Art of Is not only gives the reader an inside view of the states of mind that give rise to improvisation, it is also a celebration of the power of the human spirit, which – when exercised with love, immense patience, and discipline- is an antidote to hate.” Yo-Yo Ma, cellist

In this volume, Atuel publishes a new contribution by Jorge Holovatuck to the amazing problem of the formation and training of the actor. A factory of theatrical games and exercises crowns Holovatuck’s extensive career in the practice and research of theater pedagogy. Under the epigraph of Jean Paul Sartre, “We must expand the field of the possible”, Holovatuck expands in this book the knowledge and strategies that he developed in the Manual of theatrical games and exercises. Each unit of A factory of theatrical games and exercises carries out provocative theoretical-practical approaches and includes a stimulating proposal of “Activities” that can be applied in the workshop or theater school. It is a book designed for the action of the reader, to whom Holovatuck leaves the last word. Raúl Serrano, Hollovatuck’s teacher, writes in the prologue: “The author aims to imbue the technique itself with creativity without the terms being antagonistic. The idea of the artist pedagogue is presented in a very different way from that in which it is normally understood. “It is not about the artist who necessarily becomes a pedagogue, but rather the pedagogue who raises his aim and converts his classes into true creative events.” The material…

Theatrical Games. Awareness raising, improvisation, character construction. Acting techniques This book collects the pedagogical work of the author, who for 16 years has combined her experience as an actress and teacher to systematize, specify and propose coherent material for teachers, students and theater directors, on useful and simple dynamics to design a theater program. The first part is based on different games and exercises that are used to prepare the actor, compiled from the experience of the author and from the teachers Clive Barker and Viola Spolin. The second part is focused on the work of the teacher based on acting techniques such as The Comedy of Art, the Stanislavski technique, the Michael Chekhov technique and the Neutral Circle technique.

Omar Argentino Galván (improviser, teacher and show creator) is one of the main references of the improv scene in Spanish and author of the improv manual Del Salto al Vuelo (2013). His work is characterized by a particular poetics on stage, a combination of magical realism and theatrical narrative not widely used in the impro. With his tireless Improtour, he has worked on 5 continents and 35 countries. In this brief essay, “Yes, but. La impro en su encrucijada”, Galván gives his opinion about the means of production and consumption of theatrical improvisation, focusing on the North American community. It has been translated into English, French, Italian and Portuguese

What prevents us from feeling that we are already creative? The society in which we live has taught us that being creative is synonymous with standing out from others, being ingenious, eager, etc. In reality, human beings are creative by nature. When we cook, when we remember something, when we kiss, walk, read… we are being creative. The interesting thing is to see the ways that people have of showing that creative singularity, that way of making coffee, of remembering, of caressing, of kneading bread; It is what makes us unique people. And then, how do we come to feel that we already are? This book is a one-way ticket to your interior, to your creativity, but not just any creativity. This will be a journey towards praise, towards creativity that is born only and only from contact with our essence. A journey in which you will break down the barriers that society, education, culture and family have imposed on us to prevent our essence, and therefore our creativity, from being expressed freely and generously. Welcome to the journey to the center of yourself. “They have taught us to applaud those who do something surprising, but at the same time…