Improv Online!: Mark Making

20140223

Mark Making

As we live our daily improv life in a new way without planning anticipation or preparation, our improv journal is our best friend. We communicate daily with our journals, perhaps many times a day. That is how we keep the pulse alive.

I think the improv journal is a process of mark making. But just what is mark making?

It includes

writing

making dots and lines and scratches and blobs

doodles

words drawn

and images written,

all without purpose form or intention.

May the pulse be with you!

Abhay

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Abhay Burjor Ghiara

Abhay has had fun teaching and performing improv drama, a form of improvised theater that he created, for over twenty-five years.

He has taught improv drama workshops to a wide range of participants, including artists, nuns, and engineering students.

Abhay is a Fulbright Scholar in performance art and has taught in four continents. He is an evaluator / peer-reviewer for the Fulbright Commission, New Delhi. He was trained at Second City in Chicago and has a Master of Arts degree from Northwestern University.

Photo: Maritstar.

Appreciations

"Just found your blog and enjoy your posts - good to find a brother and believer in improv :)"
"Awesome! Your posts are always profound. God bless."
"Brilliant!"
"Perfect and will use this for one of my first day exercises as well in class."
"Wonderful and suggestive!"
"Wow Abhay, I love the way you push the envelope. This is quite simply, A-W-E-S-O-M-E!"
"Your blog/posts/attitude to life are like a breath of fresh air!"
"Hello abhay, thank you for your tips. I am a choreographer for dance theatre, I have taught few dance classes even improvisation, but this is the first time I have been asked to teach acting improv, so I am taking the challenge and googled and found you, I will try to follow your steps too on top of other ideas that I plan to incorporate."
"One of the best classes I have taken, EVER!And I have taken a lot of classes!"
"Great work! I love it!"
"The way you create a safe, playful space in your class is truly inspiring."
"Thanks for the improv class. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot!"
"It all makes sense to me now. I am looking forward to 'subtracting' again at the next class."
"I love your blog!"
"Thanks for bringing the joy of improv to many people!"
"Thanks, Abhay, for your wonderful improv class!"
"The most fun I have had in a long time"
"One of the reasons I love your class is that I forget that it's a class, because it's more like a playground where we all have fun playing together, and being creative."

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Mark Making

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