Melecio Estrella. Photo by Jessica Swanson. Read Melecio's essay here.

From Blog Director Jill Randall:

Hello! Today I am pleased to share 10 essays about improvisational practices and performances, plus 52 prompts for exercises and explorations.

Depending on your department, these resources could work in an undergraduate or graduate level course.

I look forward to hearing from you about the use of these pieces in your classes. Email feedback and stories to randalldanceprojects@gmail.com. Thank you!

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Beginnings

A Dozen Questions about Improvising (Actually, A Baker's Dozen) – by Jill Randall

 

Blog Series: "Why Improv?"

Improvisation as Sustainability – by Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery

Improvising in Practice: reflections from my workshop with Jesse Zaritt in a time of COVID-19 – by Molly Rose-Williams

6 improvisation scores (or, archives of making a solo through improvisational process) – by Audrey Johnson

FINDING (HEART): Practices in Improvisation (& Practices in Improvisational Writing) – by Molly Heller

Where We Find Ourselves: Memories of Improvisations – by Melecio Estrella

Rigor + Anarchy in Improvisation – by Ellen Slatkin

https://life-as-a-modern-dancer.com/2022/07/24/blog-series-why-improv-with-bhumi-b-patel/

on teaching improvisational practice: dispatch from August 2022 – by Bhumi B Patel

 

Improvisational Performances

A Home for Improvisation at "Never Before Never Again" – by Sarah Chien

This Time – compiled and partially written by Pamela Vail

"The Spaces Between": A Preview with the Collaborators (Nina Haft & Company)

 

Consent and Decolonization in Contact Improvisation

Let us eat cake, consensually, that is: A Reflection on TALK.DANCE.CAKE – by Bhumi B. Patel

 

52 Movement Poems to Inspire Improvisations

52 Movement Poems (the complete list)

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