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Fall PlayDate - Friday September 26th!

It's Playdate plus Performance 2!! Fall brings the return from summer. Return to school, return to work. Take this opportunity to return to play. Join Olyimprov on Friday September 26th at the Olympia Center from 7-9 p.m. for the fall seasonal Playdate. And not just any old playdate. You'll also have the opportunity to see the return Performance of the not necessarily funny improv group. Watch and then do.

You can reserve your $5 tickets at The Olyimprov Home Page

Play Dates For Adults, young and old!

A Gallery of Play Dates for Grown Ups!

• One of the First Play Dates
• Play Date #2
• Play in Motion

The idea is instead of watching other people play on TV, the movie screen or in the stadium, Old Dogs New Tricks and OlyImprov invites you to get involved in the play yourselves.

Play from the Right Side of the Brain

Scientist Jill Taylor describes the right and left side of the brain and the lessons of a stroke! Why it is important to do improv and other right brain activities.

A few quotes from masters of the art

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I’d lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age---just as the lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn’t understand that clarity is in the mind. I’ve since found tricks that can make the world blaze up in about fifteen seconds, and the effects last for hours

Keith Johnstone in Impro

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of your in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

Martha Graham

I know that improvisation has nothing to do with wit, glibness or comic ability. A good improviser is someone who is awake, not entirely self-focused, and moved by a desire to do something useful and give something back and who acts upon this impulse. My students wanted to know the password for joining the society of such people, to play fearlessly, and to work with greater ease.

Here is the password--it is yes!"

Patricia Ryan Madson in Improv Wisdom - Don't Prepare, Just Show Up