The document discusses the future of improv and provides resources related to improv. It discusses pioneers in improv like Viola Spolin and her teachings on removing obstacles to direct experience. It also discusses concepts like "yes and..." and provides examples of the author's work with improv theater, workshops, and technology. Finally, it lists various improv theaters and resources for further learning about improv.

2. About Me

3. Viola Spolin “ We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with equations”

4. Viola Spolin “ If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he or she choses to learn: and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach everything it has to teach.”

5. 5 obstacles to direct experience ~ Viola Spolin 1. Approval/Disapproval 2. Self-Pity 3. Success/Failure 4. Attitudes 5. Fear

6. Improv Concept Yes and...

7. My Theatre Work

9. Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois (Chicago)

10. Portlock scene design Text The Dusable Project

11. Mono Projection

12. screen Projection Screen

13. cart Rear Projection Cart

14. control Controller Station

15. 1st season The First Season

16. Season 1 montage

17. Staging Dracula Class

18. Improv Kitchen

19. Control room studio

20. Adlib TV show AD-LIB TV

21. Second Life

22. NMC Performing Arts Building

23. stage1

24. stage2

26. Technology of Improv Requirements

27. Improv Workshops

28. Commedia Commedia dell’Arte

29. Antonio Fava

30. What’s Next?

31. Resources Chicago Improv Theaters The Second City http://www.secondcity.com IO http://www.ioimprov.com Annoyance Productions http://www.annoyanceproductions.com Text

32. Resources Viola Spolin Paul Sills Wisconsin Theater Game Center http://www.paulsills.com The Spolin Center http://www.spolin.com / Book: Improvisation For the Theatre See section on theory and foundation Text

33. Resources Non theatre related examples of this work Improv at CERN (Wall Street Journal) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122048206487796841.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone JellyVision http://www.jellyvision.com / Creativity Engineering (just an example) http://www.creativity-engineering.com/improv.html

34. Resources More about my work Video presentation http://door.it.northwestern.edu/sheridan/dms/zellner/zellner-modes.rm The Masks of Antonio Fava http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/fava/ Text