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The fear of the ‘no’ and professional improv
As improvisers we are told to say yes. There are multiple variations of that taught depending on the school of thought, where you grew up in improv, but it is roughly the same. ‘Say yes’. ‘Say yes and …’ ‘Accept the offers’. We all heard that a lot. It is a great...
Improv and Science – A Teaser
Another featuring text in the blog, this time as part of the writing project of the SIN network—an international improv network I co-created a few years back. The text below is a teaser section from the chapter "Improvisation and the Scientific Method" by Ben...
The type of Community I’d like to create
I’m currently working a whole lot around the genre of the films created by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki. I am watching and re-watching his movies, listening to a bunch of podcasts about his oeuvre, watching videos and interviews of him and reading his books. This...
Vulnerability Letters
A couple of years back, somewhere in the Finnish Summer, I met a Dutch improviser that had everything Dutch: tall, loud, whitty, and somehow pretty direct. I quickly fell in love with him, because he happened to also be kind, smart, friendly, and vulnerable. This...
The forgotten virtue of shutting the f*** up
« Sometimes we struggle with making them react more » a student once told me, talking about his fellow players. And suddenly, it clicked. NB: I will be using the words « men » and « women » in a way that is generalising and referring to a binary vision of the gender...
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