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Improvisation Books
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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,905 ratings — published 1979
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,926 ratings — published 1990
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,555 ratings — published 2005
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,438 ratings — published 1994
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.27 — 708 ratings — published 1963
Impro for Storytellers (Theatre Arts)
by (shelved 6 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.17 — 458 ratings — published 1994
Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ and Dave Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.32 — 264 ratings — published 2015
Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.18 — 793 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 3.99 — 226 ratings — published 2008
The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.28 — 661 ratings — published 2004
Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
by (shelved 3 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.27 — 243 ratings — published 1994
Composing a Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.75 — 935 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 4.53 — 886 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 — 6,433 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 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2010
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,209 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 3.89 — 36 ratings — published 2002
The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,286 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 3.87 — 86 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 — 307 ratings — published 2009
Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.05 — 43 ratings — published 1993
Theatre of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,564 ratings — published 1977
The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.87 — 563 ratings — published 2013
Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.44 — 18 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 4.16 — 61 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 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 1990
Directing Improv (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.03 — 34 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 — 1,134 ratings — published 2011
An Improvised Life: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.59 — 610 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 — 1,125 ratings — published 2004
Art by Committee: A Guide to Advanced Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.83 — 183 ratings — published 2006
Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.17 — 230 ratings — published 1986
The Second City Almanac of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.10 — 135 ratings — published 2004
Process: An Improviser's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.88 — 81 ratings — published 2007
The Definitive Book of Body Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 3.95 — 28,442 ratings — published 1981
Improvisationstheater: Band 2: Schauspiel-Improvisation (German Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The MacGyver Secret: Connect to Your Inner MacGyver & Solve Anything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 3.93 — 83 ratings — published
Other People's Wars: The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.23 — 26 ratings — published 2021
Invention: A Life (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,339 ratings — published
Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work And In Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,907 ratings — published 2009
Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools & Operations That Helped Win the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 3.99 — 451 ratings — published 2002
The Surprising Genius of Jesus: What the Gospels Reveal about the Greatest Teacher (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.22 — 434 ratings — published
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.”
― The Names
― The Names
“Power has its own rhythms and patterns. Those who succeed at the game are the ones who control the patterns and vary them at will, keeping people off balance while they set the tempo. The essence of strategy is controlling what comes next, and the elation of victory can upset your ability to control what comes next in two ways. First, you owe your success to a pattern that you are apt to try to repeat.... Second, success tends to go to your head ...
The powerful vary their rhythms and patterns, change course, adapt to circumstance, and learn to improvise.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
The powerful vary their rhythms and patterns, change course, adapt to circumstance, and learn to improvise.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
