Hello! Perhaps you’ve come across this post because of our podcast Liminal Passengers, which explores a surreal, improvisational, audio world. Aside from it being an audio art gallery, it has quite a few writing, performance, and improv techniques to try, one of them being Ekphrasis. Listen to Maggie introduce our pieces of Ekphrasia. Ekphrasis means “Description” in […]
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Hello performers! I’ve recently let my third podcast, Liminal Passengers, free into the world. This celebration of surrealism in audio form is partly artistic indulgence, but also a resource for writing and performance. While Introverted Improvisers hopes to introduce people to the joy and freedom of improv, plus celebrates really fun work and community in audio, Liminal Passengers is
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Hi friends! So happy to have more friends coming my way, holy crap. Let me tell you how to get involved at i_i, or with AudioProv generally! Origin story: I began running audio-improv (which I now call, in line with my admiration for horrendous portmanteaus, “AudioProv”) circles when I realized on-camera zoom improv was too distracting
How i_i Came About and Operates… (and audio resources) Read More »
Hello friends! Click here if you want to hear the audio version description of some easy improv audio sets. Please do give a shoutout to Camila and/or Introverted Improvisers for any of the bulleted I’ve given below if you use and enjoy them. 🙂 For those that would rather skim visually (hello, my friend ADHD)
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Hi Friends, I can’t stress enough how much I practice improv for the play, the camaraderie, the mental and creative exercise, with zero intention to “get good” for an audience. In fact, until a couple of years ago (and this was years in to my improv practice) I dreaded every show, because I got so
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Things to gain: requires self-awareness: can’t interrupt easily, talk too long, or physically dominate requires group mind: flowing and building through cascade of dialogue, holding tension through silence forces true listening, with no other distractions or physical cues to guide a response requires stronger character/voice work (hard to hold onto, great skill to have) requires illustrative
I don’t know how I feel about a blah-blah-blahg (other than my stomach lurching at the thought of it), but I figure I gotta walk the talk: I believe in improv as a practice versus a performance, so I better model the process of practicing new and uncomfortable things. One thing I feel comfortable putting
Making it up as I go… Read More »