Anything that you can create in your imagination, you can create in your improvisation. Have you noticed how your imagination works best if you suspend disbelief and simply allow your mind to create? Well, object work allows you to do just that when you are performing! The essence of object work is believing in the imaginary world you are creating and then inhabiting it to such a degree that it becomes real for you. What becomes real for the performer becomes real for the audience.
Play with this. Pick up an imaginary object. Then answer the following in your mind and feel, really feel the object become real.
1. How would you describe it?
2. How much does it weigh?
3. What color is it?
1. How would you describe it?
2. How much does it weigh?
3. What color is it?
4. What textures does it have?
5. What is its volume?
6. Is it new or old?
7. Do you like it?
8. Find something odd about it. Can you let the oddness grow?
9. How has the object changed?
10. Do you realise you've just performed improv theater?
It really is that simple! Now play with another imaginary object.
May the pulse be with you!
Abhay
Image: Mathematical peepshow by Charles and Ray Eames
5. What is its volume?
6. Is it new or old?
7. Do you like it?
8. Find something odd about it. Can you let the oddness grow?
9. How has the object changed?
10. Do you realise you've just performed improv theater?
It really is that simple! Now play with another imaginary object.
May the pulse be with you!
Abhay
Image: Mathematical peepshow by Charles and Ray Eames
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