Viola Spolin Quotes

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• Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
• Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and…
• The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.
• When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.
• 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…
• Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.
• Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.
• Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger
• 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…
• We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.
• That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.
• Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.
• There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by…
• 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…
• My vision is a world of accessible intuition.
• First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.
• 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…
• The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of…
• 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…

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