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My vision is a world of accessible intuition.
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Intuition
Vision
World
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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
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Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.
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Clever
Creativity
Rearranging
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One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.
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Cages
Turns
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Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.
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Initiate
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We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.
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Freedom Of Speech
Theatre
Watches
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The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.
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Communicate
Technique
Theater
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That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.
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Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger
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Space
Invisible
Stranger
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When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.
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Intuition
Mind
Possibility
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The unknown is where we go to find new things and intuition is how we find them.
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Intuition
New Things
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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.
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Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.
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Play
Theatre
Wish
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First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.
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Break
Firsts
Limits
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Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity
Mind
Play
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General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.
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Actors
Giving
Reality
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If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
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Environment
Individual
Permit
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Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.
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Communication
Discipline
Games
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It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.
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Experience
Inspirational
Motivational
Attitude
Views
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It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.
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Daily Activities
Goal
Losing Everything
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The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.
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Meaningful
Player
Theatre
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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.
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Children
Play
Punishment
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When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.
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Air
Self
Views
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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.
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Discovery
Memories
Reality
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Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.
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Moving
Play
Wish
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