The Importance of Flow in Improvisation

"I spend a long time thinking about and observing what is it people respond to in a theatre," he says. "They're rarely responding to something that's intrinsically funny." Instead, they're actually responding to the nature of the process - laughter because it's so joyful". The promise therefore when I first came across improvisation was like, how can I get that in my everyday life? How can I get this feeling of effortless creation?" He adds: 'You know, we lavish time and attention trying to control things that always kind of beyond our grasp'

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