Книга о принципах импровизации
For more than 20 years of directing, teaching, and participating in improvisation, Mick Napier has watched thousands of scenes. His experience as founder of the acclaimed Annoyance Theatre/Annoyance Productions, as well as Resident Director and Artistic Consultant for The Second City, has led him to continually question why and how scenes work or don't work and what one must do in order for a scene to be successful.
In this book, Napier takes an irreverent, but constructive look at the art and practice of improvised scenes. He covers such topics as:
* two-person scenes
* group scenes
* entering scenes
* techniques to achieve richer, more layered scenes
* auditioning
* solo exercises for practice at home.
http://www.amazon.com/Improvise-Scene-Inside-Mick-Napier/dp/032500630X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276531566&sr=8-1
Alva No, a University of California, Berkeley, philosopher and cognitive scientist, argues that after decades of concerted effort on the part of neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers "only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious ... has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue." The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain. Consciousness is not something that happens inside us but something we achieve it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process. To understand consciousness the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element. Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body and world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."
"Моя жизнь представляет собой историю самореализации бессознательного! Все, что есть в бессознательном, стремится к реализации, и человеческая личность, ощущая себя единым целым, хочет развиваться из своих бессознательных источников."
