‘We make up the rules as we go along…’
The Praxis of Improvisation
A two-day workshop investigating the role improvisation plays in various creative endeavors: theatre, cooking, design, music, writing and theory. Conceived and organized by Fabian Goppelsroeder, Feodor-Lynen Fellow at the Department of Germanic Languages, presenters include the University of Chicago’s Mwata Bowden, Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, David Levin, Jennifer Scappetone, and Noah Zeldin, as well as Dana Gooley (Brown University), Dieter Mersch (Zurich University of the Arts), Berlin-based designer Werner Aisslinger and the ensemble dance-theater Lucky Plush (Chicago). For more information, please click here.
The workshop will take place at the Gray Center Lab at Midway Studios, 929 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
Free; registration required. Inquiries contact Mike Schuh at mikes1@uchicago.edu.
Presented by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, The Committee on Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago, Zurich University of the Arts, and the Goethe Institute.