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Improvisation Books
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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,040 ratings — published 1979
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,021 ratings — published 1990
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,599 ratings — published 2005
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,481 ratings — published 1994
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.27 — 713 ratings — published 1963
Impro for Storytellers (Theatre Arts)
by (shelved 6 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.18 — 461 ratings — published 1994
Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ and Dave Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.33 — 268 ratings — published 2015
Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.18 — 808 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 3.98 — 228 ratings — published 2008
The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.28 — 672 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 — 244 ratings — published 1994
Composing a Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.75 — 940 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 — 917 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 — 6,518 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 — 1,061,155 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 — 1,313 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 3.88 — 89 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 4.07 — 42 ratings — published 1993
Theatre of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,579 ratings — published 1977
The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.86 — 567 ratings — published 2013
Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.47 — 19 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 4.18 — 62 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 — 32 ratings — published 1990
Directing Improv (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.08 — 36 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 — 1,147 ratings — published 2011
An Improvised Life: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.58 — 611 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 — 1,139 ratings — published 2004
Art by Committee: A Guide to Advanced Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.82 — 184 ratings — published 2006
Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.18 — 231 ratings — published 1986
The Second City Almanac of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 4.08 — 132 ratings — published 2004
Process: An Improviser's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as improvisation)
avg rating 3.86 — 80 ratings — published 2007
Extreme Improv : Big Book of Improv Games (Extreme Improv Big Book of Improv Games 1)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2020
Handbook of Recreational Games: How to Play More Than 300 Children's Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1975
Interactive Performance 101 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2024
Vorhang auf für Schlüsselkompetenzen!: Förderung von Softskills im Unterricht mit Methoden des Improvisationstheaters (German Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2025
Acting: The First Six Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 4.06 — 950 ratings — published 1933
The Definitive Book of Body Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 3.95 — 28,677 ratings — published 1981
Improvisationstheater: Band 2: Schauspiel-Improvisation (German Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as improvisation)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“The basic concept is that they throw you into the middle of a scene where you're the only one who's completely unprepared. You step through a door and someone says, 'Thank god you're here.' From there you play the scene as if you know what the hell's going on, with a live studio audience watching, expecting, actually demanding, you to be funny. p282”
― The Happiest Refugee
― The Happiest Refugee
“The practice of improvisation (in contrast, say, to that of writing or painting) teaches something that we are hungry to understand: how to be in harmony with one another and how to have fun. We practice improvisation not only to “express ourselves” but to connect with others in a more immediate way.”
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