Impro Argentina. Notes and History of Theatrical Improvisation. Impro Argentina is the result of an in-depth research work that included more than 40 interviews with personalities from the world of Impro and a thorough review of works on the genre. The first part of the book, NOTES, is a theoretical contribution to the genre of theatrical improvisation: an introduction to Impro for novices and reflection material for those initiated.In THE HISTORY, the second part, Impro’s 21 years in the Argentine theater scene are told for the first time, from its beginnings to the present. Gustavo Caletti does not ignore his preferential dual position: improviser on stage and interested observer of cultural processes. With this work he contributes to disseminate a passion for the stage that attracts more followers every day and, at the same time, debate the place of improvisation in the Argentine theater environment. Official website

A practical book that offers concrete resources for creating comedic scenes using proven structures. A classic.

It could not be missing from the Workshops collection (Reading Workshop, Theater Workshop and Voice Workshop), practical work material to play and be able to organize a theater workshop for children. The book offers an abundant amount of possibilities that can be used to organize recreational and theatrical learning sessions with children and young people.

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal’s revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone – actors and non-actors alike! This new third English edition includes recently uncovered interviews and essays from the 1970s, some of which featured in the earliest Portuguese edition of this book, and a new essay by the theatre director Sergio de Carvalho, which looks at Boal’s work in the context of Brazilian theatre and politics over the past fifty years. This is a vital handbook for theatre makers and activists of all kinds who want to deepen their understanding of the theory and practice of Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. It is also an excellent introduction for those new to the system.

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.

Ediciones Status presents “Impro: Dynamics of the Unexpected”, the first book by Feña Ortalli. A book that presents a series of ideas and concepts of improvisation explained through football analogies. In “Impro: Dynamics of the Unexpected”, Feña Ortalli takes us out onto the playing field without losing sight of the board. In a masterful way he immerses us in the history of the greats and allows us to get the ball rolling with our proposals.” Javier Pastor (Director of El Club de la Impro) Web

The book that Alexis Díaz-Pimienta has written is a new book, in the full sense of the word: almost everything that is said in it, is said for the first time. And although the phenomenon it deals with is not new at all, it is unknown to many, even in the field of culture and scholarship, because there are hardly any bibliographical antecedents, and these, in any case, are very recent. In such a way that Díaz-Pimienta’s book comes to discover an authentic and portentous “new world”, in old times like the ones we live in when cultural discoveries seemed finished.

Is an improviser born or made? This question has lingered for centuries in the minds of improvisers, lovers, and scholars of poetic improvisation. And the answer has almost always been the same: “They are born with it. You can’t learn to improvise, because it’s an innate gift.” However, the Pimienta Method, with which hundreds of children and young people in Cuba have learned, is a proven and affirmative answer to this age-old question. Its creator, the Cuban repentista Alexis Díaz-Pimienta, began at the age of 5 on Cuban radio and television, and has accumulated more than 40 years of repentista experience, more than 25 years of research, and more than 15 years of teaching experience in Cuba, Spain, and other Latin American countries. This method is entirely playful and participatory, effective for learning to improvise in verse, in any stanzaic form, and in several languages: primarily Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Galician, and Catalan. All of this… in a short time. It doesn’t matter if the learner is starting from scratch or has experience and wants to refine their techniques. Furthermore, the method is designed for both learning and teaching. It includes oral, written, board, playground, and blackboard games, as well as…

La Colección PEDAGOGÍA TEATRAL presenta este texto sobre el Match de Improvisación como herramienta dentro del campo dela expresión y la creatividad. Como todas las publicaciones de Ñaque Editora, aúna la profundidad teórica con la frescura dela práctica. KOLDOBIKA GOTZON VIO, alumno de Georges Laferriére, nos transmite su experiencia y la de sus compañeros de equipo, D’lmpro Kolektiboa. “EXPLORANDO EL MATCH DE IMPROVISACIÓN“ es una invitación a entrar y disfrutar del mundo del Match: “Unjuego teatralcolectivo en el que, por medio de técnicas de improvisación, varios equipos compiten cooperativamente y donde el público asistente es parte activa del espectáculo.” Equipos y público forman parte de un proceso de crecimiento, divertimiento y placer. Prologado por el impulsor del Match en España, Georges Laferriére, Profesor de Didáctica del Arte Dramático en la Universidad de Quebec en Montreal; el libro trata de cómo se puede entrenar un equipo de Match en sus primeras fases y de su profundización en este trabajo, todo ello aderezado con claves para su utilización pedagógica. Para aficionados a este juego-técnica; para actores y actrices; para formadores que deseen aplicarlo en el taller o en el aula.

“El libro de Clive Barker es más que una simple guía de juegos de improvisación para actores: es, más bien, una exploración integral de las técnicas de actuación” The New York Theatre Review “Theatre Games es una contribución masiva al arte del teatro … Una cartera abultada de credo, manualidades, consejos e instrucciones … Es deslumbrantemente astuto y una lectura emocionante, bastante diferente a un libro de texto, más bien una larga y fascinante charla en las horas pequeñas”. Los juegos del Stage Theatre son un método para entrenar actores que fue desarrollado en el siglo XX por profesionales destacados, incluido Clive Barker, que entrenó a actores en el Taller de Teatro de Joan Littlewood en su apogeo. Desarrolló su sistema de “juegos de teatro” a lo largo de 20 años y demostró su eficacia para profesores, estudiantes y actores por igual. Su famoso libro combina su filosofía y enfoque de los juegos, describe cómo jugarlos y las habilidades de actuación que pueden desarrollarse a partir de ellos. Los juegos están organizados en orden de complejidad e ilustrados con fotografías y diagramas. Esta reedición de este texto clásico y atemporal ahora incluye un DVD con material de video que muestra…