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Ep 12: Randy Dixon – ‘Mythology and Kinship’: Improvention 2011

usa-flagRandy Dixon,  veteren Seattle improviser and Unexpected Productions Artistic Director,  speaks about the influence of Del Close, his life and times as a young improviser, and the impact of mythology in the work he creates.


TFPC Ep 12 – Randy Dixon: Improvention 2011

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From Street Theatre A, Improvention 2011, Australia, the last of the ‘fireside chat’ series. A live recording of Randy Dixon speaking with good friend Rama Nicholas about his growth as a young improviser into the world travelling teacher and player he is today. His unique trake on the  Keith V Del debate, facing death with Del Close and what art can draw from such things, and his hopes for the roads yet to be walked..

Run time 56 mins

LINKS

Unexpected Productions

Randy on Applied Improv Network

The Joseph Campbell Foundation

Improvention

LD JP 1

LD JP 2

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Ep 11: Vox Pops from The Fest – Improvention 2011

Prowling the rooms and halls in the wee hours of Improvention 2011, The Flint Podcast brings you a series of one on one conversations with the teachers, performers, administrators and students of this week long impro fest.

TFPC Ep 11 – Vox Pops from Improvention 2011

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Marcel Proust  on travel wrote, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Thanks Google.

Festivals operate in such rarefied air.

A year’s work can fly by as if but a foot-note, epiphanies can slow time for a blessed moment, and connections can be forged, broken, and connected again.

And that’s just on stage.

A collection of interviews from Improvention 2011 participants

Featuring Rik Brown, Mim Carville, Amy Moule, Mel Bennet, Jen O’Sullivan, Jaime Cerda, Cale Bain,  Merrilee McCoy, Catherine Hagarty, Glenn Hall, Ben Crowley, Michelle Nussey and the first ever censor beep from the drive by specialist, Ep 7′s Jason Geary.

LINKS

The Spaces. Feature band’s fab website.

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Ep 7: Story theory with Jason Geary

Can screenplay story techniques teach us improvisers a thing or two?  According to Melbourne writer and improviser Jason Geary, the answer is not only “yes,” but an assertion that story design bears deeper lessons that go the heart of our craft.

TFPC ep 7 Jason Geary Story Theory

Attending a Robert McKee story seminar set off all sorts of sparks for Jason Geary. A seventeen year veteran improviser of international festivals and the Australian stage, along with extended television credits, he found himself drawn to McKee’s story deconstruction. Beyond the lessons for writers, he sensed in the teachings an integral design, a launching pad  for richer improvised theatre.

Protagonist empathy. Slider Theory.  Scene charge. Cast design. All manner of connections erupted and here, in Ep 7 , Jason speaks about the changes in his approach to improv through the prism of McKee story design.

The rigours, the challenges. The aspiration of building a common improv language  so we can step on stage and discover a story, not tell it.

LINKS from show

Jase’s Dictionary of Moments

Robert McKee

Feature artist THE SPACES.