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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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That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.
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When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.
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It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.
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One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.
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The unknown is where we go to find new things and intuition is how we find them.
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Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger
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If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
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Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.
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