Austin Improv

Is it grandiose to think that this conversation is the beginning of the rest of improv?

A nice thought. What I love about my experiences at The Hideout, Austin Tx, is folk go about their work without pretense of tribal supremacy. I know anytime I've felt all Johnstonian and fancy pants alpha, my ...

Flint Podcast ep on LNI with Andy crouch.

http://theflintpodcast.com/2012/02/20/ep-17-live-nude-improv-with-andy-crouch/

I've included known cast in the show notes, but am short. Apologies for those I've left out, but I was squinting at the pic taken of cast on the walkway and putting names to ...

Hi all,

I'm starting a new segment on The Flint Podcast called, "You really oughta see this!"
It'll explore books and films that you believe improvisers *really* should see/read.

Not stuff that is "awesome", but stuff that is awesome and holds a clear lesson or node for our form.

It can be direct ...

Randy Dixon is shrewd, generous and impossibly articulate.

He slows down improv to its bare, beautiful bones.

Can't recommend him enough.

T

Podcasts = joy.

heartily agree with This American Life. The America you don't see on Fox.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org

Filmspotting is a great film review podcast from Chicago. Sans snark, multo passion.

http://www.flmspotting.net

Johnaton Goldstein either will or won't be your thing, but if ...

Agree. With time and will, anyone can become an improviser who is engaging and fun to play with. That would be my def. of good.
Time can deliver the trust in the form and your partners, will can deliver the technique for when scenes go pear-shaped.

Some people can jump up an do impro pretty well ...

Thanks all. V.much appreciated. Our deadline for submissions approaches and I'll submit recs verbatim....and then proceed to speak on behalf of all of Austin forever.

Ta lots

T

Hi all,

In Melbourne, we're currently rumbling and chatting about international teachers for 2012. The tyranny of distance means it is difficult to have a finger on the pulse of who is doing what in The States.

In the past, we have had Dan O'Connor, Edi Paterson, Randy Dixon, Rebecca Stockly, Paul ...

It's not P'Graph. It's Randy. Dixon that is. A great chat from our main Australian Improv Festival, Improvention 2011.
He speaks about his friendship with Del Close, the whole nonsense of the Keith V Del debate and the richness he draws from mythology in his work.
If you guys get a chance, get to a ...

I like improvisers who consider improv an artform. They fill me with hope. They are accountable to their credos. There's something concrete about them.
I don't actively dislike ones who don't, they just fill me with a kind of glazed despair which I'd rather avoid for personal reasons.

Down here, in ...

Nice.

T

Kat,

To your first question...my thoughts.

Unskilled male improvisers will yell and unashamedly talk over the top of an offer. Unskilled women improvisers will hang back and be unseen or enter and choose their words and actions very carefully. Both have merit in the right context. Both can kill ...

A couple from Melbourne past and present. Lliam Amor is our designer. He has a fab kitsch sensibility. Cinemaprov was a one off showcase on an idea sparked by a convo with Asaf.

Love the Eris 2035 poster. Promises something more than you would expect from an improv show.

Does the promise/terror of performance magnetize troupes? Make it more likely for people to stick around or leave?
I'm curious, cos in Melbourne, we have a large w'shop system but very limited company stage opportunity, and a good quota of students who have (only) trained together for some time ...