Today I was paging through my notes from directing and coaching improvisational theatre. Here are some phrases that stood out to me. Perhaps one could apply them to more than improv….
Stay Connected
Be Affected
trust that we can just be birds
Be either off or on–not in between.
Be REAL.
If it doesn’t matter to you, why should it matter to us?
Let IT be what IT wants to be.
Support each other.
Say “yes” to yourself, dammit!
Have fun with each other!
Get to it.
Make discoveries from the inside, not decisions from the outside.
Open Up.
Always wear comfy clothes.
breathe
Trust your own impulses.
connected…..invested…..affected
Don’t make people crazy. Join them.
PLAY
Less thinking and more being.
fantastic spinning
It’s going to be pretty hard to do anything if no one likes each other.
It was great when Hercules was affected.
Give some space.
your funny talk about sacks got funnier when you were affected by each other
Have something that matters to you.