Directed not only toward actors, dancers, and other performing
artists who draw upon improvisation as part of their craft, this
Zen-infused memoir of a life lived creatively will pique the
interest of anyone in search of liberation from self-limiting
concepts. What does it mean to live in a body? What does it mean to
improvise? Do we wonder whether we're capable of improvising--to
make up things as we go, step into the unknown, take a risk that
changes our notion of ourselves and the world?
Author Ruth Zaporah has been a professional physical theater
performer, writer, director, and teacher for forty years. Early on
she realized that with a shift of perception, every moment of an
improvisation holds both the familiar and the utterly new. With the
same shift, so does every moment of life; every moment holds both
the known and the unknown. And, as Zaporah says, "The body leads
the way in this book. In each chapter the world is experienced by
it and of it. It is the body that adds richness, wildness, and
grace. The body invokes images and feelings. It is the body that
imagines."
" Improvisation on the Edge" recounts events from Zaporah's life
such as improvisational shows in the war zones of Sarajevo and
Kosovo; apprenticing with a Huichol medicine woman from Chiapas,
Mexico; understanding the concept of "practice" while on a beach; a
bus ride in Cuba; a car ride in Estonia; the intricacies of onstage
collaborations. Interspersed are chapters about awareness,
listening, adapting, resiliency, time, space, silence,
simplicity--all within the context of everyday life in the body. In
several other chapters, Ruth writes from the logical (and
nonlinear) voice of the improviser as she is on stage, within the
immediate embodied process. A fascinating glimpse into the mind of
an artist and true master of improvisation, this book will appeal
to performers, teachers, and anyone who has ever needed to "wing
it" with confidence and grace.
Table of Contents
1. Something That Needs Listening To 2. Mirror Mirror 3. On My
Wall 4. Tutu Solitude 5. A Mind in Three Episodes 6. A Splish
Splash Orchestra 7. A Take on Talk 8. Bobby's River 9. Roar 10.
Meet Yourself Babe 11. Nuts and Bolts 12. Out of Chaos 13. Changing
Course 14. The Flying Shaman 15. You Could Say Death 16. Ain't It
The Truth 17. The Raging Boomerang 18. See This Feel That 19.
Stalking War 20. Your Mother Just Died Christina, Leave the
Backdoor Open 21. The Illusive Genture 22. A Pack of Lies 23. Again
Gun and Boys 24. A Ride in Estonia 25. Art and Heart 26. Floating
to the Surface 27. Stuffed With Junk 28. A Chair in Cuba 29. Any
Where Practice 30 Teacher Says 31. Older and Under
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