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Oh, ok. This is what a fun Harold is supposed to be like. This week, my one team Player Piano was coached by Megan Neuringer of DeCoster. One of the things she was really pushing was to stop getting in our heads about the rules of improv and to just react naturally and with emotions. [...]
Filed by andyb at March 29th, 2010 under Harold
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There are a few insights I’ve had in the last week, and having so many practices and classes at once is an incredible help in really getting clear as to what it is we’re doing when we perform improv. It’s such an amorphous thing, and there’s no singular definition of improv, just a certain habitus [...]
Filed by andyb at January 13th, 2010 under Harold
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With the holiday break in my practices for my performance groups – especially my team A Dangerous Woman, which is going to perform Harolds – as well as the two month gap between 301 and 401, I was pretty rusty for this, my fourteenth Harold. Add to that that it was my first Harold of [...]
Filed by andyb at January 11th, 2010 under Harold
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This was the first Harold since my Sunday group started that felt like we were doing work I would be proud to perform in front of other people. A large part of it is due to our – now regular – coach Terry Withers. In this period of coalescing, we’ve been trying out different coaches, [...]
Filed by andyb at December 16th, 2009 under Harold
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I don’t seriously delude myself and think that, in some utopian way, if everyone was an improviser, things might be politically better. That would be as naïve and narcissistic a belief as the ones actual activists who are explicitly working against power structures hold. This isn’t to say that mass action can’t help tamp down [...]
Filed by andyb at November 29th, 2009 under Harold
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I’m not so sure I’m interested in writing about this Harold in full. It wasn’t terrible – and certainly, it was better than a lot of others, but the lack of real cohesion, chemistry and groupmind in my Sunday group is a bit frustrating. There are some really smart and talented people in the group, [...]
Filed by andyb at November 19th, 2009 under Harold
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Harold number ten was performed on November 11th, 2009 with my performance group Player Piano. I joined Player Piano a couple of months ago when some sketch writing pals put out a general invitation that they were looking for members for their performance group. This being only my tenth Harold, I think I might be the [...]
Filed by andyb at November 12th, 2009 under Harold
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I can’t believe I haven’t performed more than nine Harolds by now, but there it is. Number nine is a difficult one to categorize, but I kind of want to call it Clash of Cultures Harold even though that doesn’t really capture whatever it was. Still – and with the caveat that I will probably [...]
Filed by andyb at November 10th, 2009 under Harold
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This blog has mainly fallen into disuse because the original purpose – to look at the intersection between philosophy and complexity theory – was based on my career interests at the time I started it. I’m still very much interested in these ideas – in some way, and only if “philosophy” is taken as broadly [...]
Filed by andyb at November 3rd, 2009 under Harold
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