INSPIRATION

På denne side deler jeg den inspiration, som gennem årerne har
påvirket mine tanker om- og mit arbejde med improvisation

Samarbejdsfilosofien

Bogen Truth in Comedy var noget af det første, der åbnede mine øjne for langform og den samarbejds filosofi, som er fuldstændig essentiel for udfaldet. Her er et lille citat fra bogen:

"When performers truly commit to a scene, they take care of each other. Whenever someone makes what appears to be a mistake on stage, the others will immediately justify it and weave it into the pattern of the entire work. More often than not. those "mistakes" become valuable contributions to the piece. The entire ensemble winds up looking brilliant because, like the Sufi weaver, they acknowledge mistakes and incorporate them into the larger work to add extra texture and depth."

Om proces

Den svenske kunstner Anna Bjerger fortæller her om sin arbejdsproces. Hendes ord minder mig om mit eget forhold til arbejdet med improvisation.
Citat af Anna Bjerger fra Louisiana Channel filmen:

"[...] you have to be so concentrated and so into it, in a way that it's like magic or something. You can't... or I can't try and put any intellectual thoughts into, you know, what I'm trying to do. Because then that would totally kill it. [...] The painting moves me forward and I follow in a way. That's why it's so hard to know if it's a successful painting because you don't really know, what you want from it. It's all very open."

Langform

Den amerikanske improgruppe The Reckoning åbnede mine øjne for, hvordan de kropslige og ikke-naturalistiske elementer kan bidrage til dynamikken i en langform. Selvom jeg beskæftiger mig med improvisation i genren Drama, så elsker jeg, hvordan The Reckoning både får gjort comedygenren samfunds-kommenterende og at de benytter ikke-naturalistiske elementer i deres formsprog. Og så er det bare sublimt samarbejde.
Forestillingen ligger i sin fulde form (delt i 6 Youtube klip). Varighed: 34 min.