Word: improvisationism
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Placing someone with paranormal powers among ordinary people is a classic conceit used by many television shows, including Bewitched, My Favorite Martian and I Dream of Jeannie. But Williams' pastiche of mime, light-speed improvisation and complex clowning is giving that one-joke vehicle a new velocity. Delivered with his...
That craziness is the best part of Williams' frequent weekend gigs at such Los Angeles clubs as the Comedy Store and the Improvisation. His act has few props, no sight gags, no patented one-liners; for Williams, the delivery is everything.
With few exceptions, the skits are marvelously funny, but Monteith & Rand show their real talent in improvisation. They ask the crowd to supply a setting and a couple of sentences, and they do the rest. One night last week, for example, the audience put them in Moscow, ordered them to...
They feed lines to each other with the smooth telepathy of an old married couple, but in fact their only relationship is professional. He grew up in Philadelphia and wanted to be a song-and-dance man; she was raised in a suburb of Chicago and wanted to sing in...
Out of Rivbea sounds Rivers' own extended free-form music: "Spontaneous on-the-spot creation and improvisation." Perhaps the most vital avant-garde spawning ground of all is Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a collective that was created in 1965. It encompasses all styles...