Spreading the Transforming Power of Improvisation
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This is an email I'm passing along that originated from David Shepards' Group
Creativity project. (FYI---David is a founding father of the art form in America and the impresario who bankrolled the first group Compass Players that started the entire movement in Chicago)
about a recent brainstorm in Seattle, wondering if there is any reality in a project
designed to overcome our lack of print after giving video holidays in 5 cities:
DESIGNERS, RESEARCHERS, EDITORS, IMPROVISERS, FUND RAISERS WANTED
SHAPE AND TEST ACTIVITIES THAT CELEBRATE HOLIDAYS--FIVE WAYS
Group Creativity, a network of writers and improvisers extending from NYC to LA, is centered in Belchertown, MA at the office of David Shepherd. He and Paul Sills designed the original COMPASS cabaret—involving Nichols, May, Berman, Alda, Arkin and others who became stars on nightclub stages and TV.
In the 80’s Shepherd and Howard Jerome invented a way to present theatre as sport. Now called Canadian Improv Games, their “Olympix” experiment plays in some 300 Canadian high schools.
In the 90’s Shepherd introduced “Movie Experience,’ a format to improvise video features that’s been adapted by Nancy Fletcher of Act Now. Her teams of girls 11-14 years old
regularly improvise movies that are screened annually at Amherst Cinema.
These projects are made possible by interns from U. Mass, Mt. Holyoke and other colleges. Shepherd is now collecting a new team of interns to complete a project that’s been videotaped annually for two decades—the celebration of Valentine’s. The new team will enable a small group to present the classic story as solo, dialog, improv song, dramatized scenario or video movie.
Shepherd estimates that a group of 10-12 creative people will produce a Valentine kit in about 9 months. Some of the final text will be drawn from Google, some from original
designs, some from the real experiences of today’s lovers who have been influenced by the story of the Saint.
Some of the writers and editors will be college students, some hopefully well known improvisers whose lives have shaped up
under the insignia of Love.
Shepherd’s back pocket contains another half dozen stories to be developed the same way: Thanksgiving, Jonah, Christmas, St. Pat’s, July 4th and maybe even Halloween. He believes that holidays treated with a mixture of history and myth will give Americans a holiday experience superior to booze and TV.
Would be interns and volunteers can reach Shepherd % 413 256 3493 or on Email at groupcreativity@charter.net. His web site is www.groupcreativityproject.com.
Creativity project. (FYI---David is a founding father of the art form in America and the impresario who bankrolled the first group Compass Players that started the entire movement in Chicago)
about a recent brainstorm in Seattle, wondering if there is any reality in a project
designed to overcome our lack of print after giving video holidays in 5 cities:
DESIGNERS, RESEARCHERS, EDITORS, IMPROVISERS, FUND RAISERS WANTED
SHAPE AND TEST ACTIVITIES THAT CELEBRATE HOLIDAYS--FIVE WAYS
Group Creativity, a network of writers and improvisers extending from NYC to LA, is centered in Belchertown, MA at the office of David Shepherd. He and Paul Sills designed the original COMPASS cabaret—involving Nichols, May, Berman, Alda, Arkin and others who became stars on nightclub stages and TV.
In the 80’s Shepherd and Howard Jerome invented a way to present theatre as sport. Now called Canadian Improv Games, their “Olympix” experiment plays in some 300 Canadian high schools.
In the 90’s Shepherd introduced “Movie Experience,’ a format to improvise video features that’s been adapted by Nancy Fletcher of Act Now. Her teams of girls 11-14 years old
regularly improvise movies that are screened annually at Amherst Cinema.
These projects are made possible by interns from U. Mass, Mt. Holyoke and other colleges. Shepherd is now collecting a new team of interns to complete a project that’s been videotaped annually for two decades—the celebration of Valentine’s. The new team will enable a small group to present the classic story as solo, dialog, improv song, dramatized scenario or video movie.
Shepherd estimates that a group of 10-12 creative people will produce a Valentine kit in about 9 months. Some of the final text will be drawn from Google, some from original
designs, some from the real experiences of today’s lovers who have been influenced by the story of the Saint.
Some of the writers and editors will be college students, some hopefully well known improvisers whose lives have shaped up
under the insignia of Love.
Shepherd’s back pocket contains another half dozen stories to be developed the same way: Thanksgiving, Jonah, Christmas, St. Pat’s, July 4th and maybe even Halloween. He believes that holidays treated with a mixture of history and myth will give Americans a holiday experience superior to booze and TV.
Would be interns and volunteers can reach Shepherd % 413 256 3493 or on Email at groupcreativity@charter.net. His web site is www.groupcreativityproject.com.
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