Everyone can learn to play at life through Meet Your Playful Self - improvisation!

QUOTE from the book Meet Your Playful Self

Just as you have learned to pass and dribble - as in basketball; swing and putt - as in golf, tie and cast as in - fly fishing. You can acquire a new skill. You can learn to play at life just as certainly as you can learn to play on a court, a course, or a river bank.

You do not need to spend a lot - raise your income - or change your career.

Improvisation is for everyone! The word improvise is often equated with some far-and-away skill employed by the creative sorts to communicate with their muse. Not true. Improvisation is a playfulness within you just wanting to be released.

Yes...you have this nature. Everyone does.

What is Playful

Improvisation anyway?

Dennis Kern is the author of Meet Your Playful Self and leads workshops in self improvement through improvisation. Walk, run or skip the path to - Your intuitive - playful self!

He has worked and taught in the performing arts for over 30 years. He introduced Chris Farley to improvisation, see Playful Past link- and taught Joan Cusack, Ron Bieganski (Artistic Director Of Free Street Theatre -Chicago),Todd Hanson (an originator of The Onion newspaper and "The Onion Movie"), and Brian Stack (writer for the "The TonightShow" with Conan O'Brien".

He co-founded the (read 2001 article) ARK Improvisational Theatre in Madison, which produced, improvised and perfromed scripted works for twelve years.

He is a contributor to the biography of Chis Farley "The Chris Farely Show"

Read More about the evolution of Meet Your Playful Self - Improvisation at the Playful Past page.

Dennis graduated from UW La Crosse in Wisconsin and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He worked in the conservatory at Chicago's Second City and completed workshop training for "Play Back Theatre" in Poughkeepsie, New York.

“Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become "stage worthy". ”
-Viola Spolin

Viola Spolin

“Excerpt from The Meet Your Playful Self book ”

Viola Spolin was one of the great teachers who was dedicated to guiding people to discover their playful nature . She demonstrated the value, power, and transformative potential of improvisation as she created hundreds of theater games through which she brought real and ordinary people to new awareness in workshop settings. Sheworked with people who were interested in performing in the theatre before an audience, but she recognized thatthe skills for doing so were not exclusive to those who wanted to perform. The very first sentence of her book Improvisation for the Theater is - Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become "stage worthy". Viola Spolin

Viola Spolin understood that improvisation was for everyone. She began to snatch the word "improvisation" from the hands of the gods to place it in the grasp of everyone. Her work has been instrumental to me in thirty years of discovery following the path she first cut through the forest of creative play.Here is a link to her clasic book Improvisation for the Theatre for more about her work.

Here is a u tube video fearturing a wondeful and amazing woman - Viola Spolin

Playfulness

Playfulness is not out of the context of relating to the people, places, and things of everyday life.

“Meet Your Playful Self engages people in a playful practice for living every day life. ”