social improvisation video
Paul Loper just forward this video. What you see is 207 people performing an improvisation score in Grand Central Station in New York. It is choreographed by the group, Improvisation Everywhere . The improvisers are pedestrian in their look and gestures and the score is very simple: Freeze at the same time for five minutes, and then unfreeze and continue on. You then see the reaction of the people around the performers, as their reality is shaken. What I love about this performance and the way the video depicts it is that it shows a key principle of improvisation in a simple obvious way. In the stillness of practicing presence, we learn to more actively live in the gap between what is habit and what is possibility. The practice of making choices in this open zone, we can learn to develop and change. Likely, some people observing this performance may be inspired to choose to do something a little differently. I am.