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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,191 ratings — published 1979
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,111 ratings — published 1990
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,648 ratings — published 2005
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,521 ratings — published 1994
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.27 — 715 ratings — published 1963
Impro for Storytellers (Theatre Arts)
by (shelved 6 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.18 — 466 ratings — published 1994
Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ and Dave Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.34 — 276 ratings — published 2015
Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.18 — 815 ratings — published 1980
The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.97 — 231 ratings — published 2008
The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.28 — 681 ratings — published 2004
Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
by (shelved 3 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.26 — 247 ratings — published 1994
Composing a Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.75 — 947 ratings — published 1989
The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.24 — 33 ratings — published 1998
How To Be The Greatest Improviser On Earth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.54 — 959 ratings — published 2016
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,617 ratings — published 2017
Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques for Trainers and Managers to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.14 — 35 ratings — published 2011
William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies (CD-ROM)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2010
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,073,139 ratings — published 2011
Vierzehn Weisheiten für Impro-Spieler (German Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.97 — 35 ratings — published 2002
The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,343 ratings — published 2013
Rehearsals for Growth: Theater Improvisation for Psychotherapists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 1994
Acting on Impulse: The Art of Making Improv Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.39 — 28 ratings — published 2002
Improv for Everyone (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.89 — 90 ratings — published 2012
The Birthday Party: A Play in Three Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.65 — 26 ratings — published 1992
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2013
Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.76 — 308 ratings — published 2009
Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.10 — 42 ratings — published 1993
Theatre of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,597 ratings — published 1977
The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.85 — 572 ratings — published 2013
Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.50 — 20 ratings — published 1995
How to Improvise a Full-Length Play: The Art of Spontaneous Theater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.17 — 64 ratings — published 2007
The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre that Revolutionized American Comedy (Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago Press)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.16 — 31 ratings — published 1990
Directing Improv (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.13 — 39 ratings — published 2005
The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,161 ratings — published 2011
An Improvised Life: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.58 — 621 ratings — published 2011
Musical Improv Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.15 — 46 ratings — published 2003
Improvise.: Scene from the Inside Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,148 ratings — published 2004
Art by Committee: A Guide to Advanced Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.82 — 187 ratings — published 2006
Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.18 — 232 ratings — published 1986
The Second City Almanac of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.08 — 133 ratings — published 2004
Process: An Improviser's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.86 — 81 ratings — published 2007
Jazz’s Innovation Constellation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
America's Jazz Soundscape Map (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Jazz Fusion : A Melodic Alchemy of Global Harmony (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Unveiling “The Sound”: Stan Getz, an Iconic Tenor Saxophonist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
World Fusion Jazz: A Kaleidoscope of Cultural Confluence (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Harmonies of Time and Place: A Jazz Odyssey (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Groovin' with the Jazz Cats: Fun and Fever (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Jazz Alchemy: From Smoke Filled Rooms to Digital Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
“E' la capacità d'improvvisare indipendentemente da quanto stabilito, la vera cartina di tornasole della capacità di una persona.”
― Every Day a Good Day: Fifteen lessons I learned about happiness from Japanese tea culture
― Every Day a Good Day: Fifteen lessons I learned about happiness from Japanese tea culture
“I always thought that's what songs are really about; you're not supposed to be singing songs about hiding things. And when my voice got better and stronger, I was able to communicate that raw feeling, and so I wrote more tender songs, love songs, if you like. [...] Composing a song like that, in front of a mike, is like holding on to a friend in a way. [...] I'm not agonizing for days with poems and shit. And what I find fascinating about it is that when you're up there on the microphone and say, OK, let's go, something comes out that you wouldn't have dreamt of. Then within a millisecond you've got to come up with something else that adds to what you've just said. It's kind of jousting with yourself. And suddenly you've got something going and there's a framework to work with.”
― Life
― Life
