Active Answering
Thinking On Your Feet Training Course
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British improv guru Keith Johnstone has said, 'In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill, and he creates very gifted improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.'
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