"Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression."
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Improvisation for the Theater (1963), page 4
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Viola Spolin
Viola Spolin (7 November 1906 – 22 November 1994) was considered the mother of the improvisational theater movement in the United States.
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