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Viola Spolin

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Quotes by Viola Spolin

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It is highly possible that what is called ‘talented behavior’ is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.
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General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to ‘see the word’ and achieve a reality for the scene.
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Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger.
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Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person – mind, body, intelligence and creativity.
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Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.
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It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.
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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.
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Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.
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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.
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The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.
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