Integrating brain science with a fresh take on how your personality affects your behavior, this book provides a clear roadmap, based on your brain, to break patterns of behavior that get in your way.
Whose Improv is it Anyway? : Beyond Second City
On both sides of the stage improv-comedy’s popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and ’90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring young improvisers working without a net or a script create hilarious characters, sketches, and songs. Thrilled by the danger, the immediacy, and the virtuosity of improv-comedy, spectators laugh and cheer. American improv-comedy burst onto the scene in the 1950s with Chicago’s the Compass Players (best known for the brilliant comedy duo Mike Nichols and Elaine May) and the Second City, which launched the careers of many popular comedians, including Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and Mike Myers. Chicago continues to be a mecca for young performers who travel from faraway places to study improv. At the same time, the techniques of Chicago improv have infiltrated classrooms, workshops, rehearsals, and comedy clubs across North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Improv’s influence is increasingly evident in contemporary films and in interactive entertainment on the internet. Drawing on the experiences of working improvisers, Whose Improv Is It Anyway? provides a never-before-published account of developments beyond Second City’s mainstream approach to the genre. This fascinating history chronicles the origins of “the Harold,” a sophisticated new “long-form” style of improv developed in the ’80s at ImprovOlympic, and details the importance and pitfalls of ComedySports. Here also is a backstage glimpse at the Annoyance Theatre, best known on the national scene for its production of The Real Live Brady Bunch. Readers will get the scoop on the recent work of players who, feeling excluded by early improv’s “white guys in ties,” created such independent groups as the Free Associates and the African American troupe Oui Be Negroes. There is far more to the art of improv than may be suggested by the sketches on Saturday Night Live or the games on Whose Line Is It Anyway? This history, an insider’s look at the evolution of improv-comedy in Chicago, reveals the struggles, the laughter, and the ideals of mutual support, freedom, and openness that have inspired many performers. It explores the power games, the gender inequities, and the racial tensions that can emerge in improvised performance, and it shares the techniques and strategies veteran players use to combat these problems. Improv art is revealed to be an art of compromise, a fragile negotiation between the poles of process and product. The result, as shown here, can be exciting, shimmering, magical, and not exclusively the property of any troupe or actor. Amy E. Seham is an assistant professor of theater and dance at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. In Connecticut she has served as artistic director of Performance Studio in New Haven and of Free Shakespeare on the Green in New Haven and Stamford. Second City stars-(front) Holly Wortell and Joel Murray; (back) Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Judith Scott, David Pasquesi, and Joe Liss-courtesy of Jennifer Girard Studio
The FirstWave Paradigm
The Second Wave
ImprovOlympic The Truth about Improv
ComedySportz Plays the Thing
The Third Wave
The Annoyance Theatre Carnival of Misfit Toys
The Free Associates The Rules of the Game
Cake Mix Cookies
I have shared many cake mix cookies with you over the years and wanted to share this new version with you all. It’s just as easy as the other recipes and very similar to my Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies if you’ve made that one before. You need just a handful of ingredients and then it’s time to whip them together and bake.
I love that the cookie dough doesn’t need to be chilled. It’s a great time saving recipe!
If you are a big fan of my Lemon Whippersnaps (you know who you are!) you can make these cookies using that recipe too. Here’s how:
1. Use a white cake mix.
2. Swap in mint extract for the lemon extract and eliminate the lemon juice.
3. Add green food coloring.
More Christmas Cookies To Try
This Grinch Cookie recipe is so fun to make but don’t stop there! Here are even more Christmas cookies you’ll love:
- Cookie Empanadas
- Reindeer Cookie Bars
- Almond Joy Cookies
- Mint Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies
- Holiday Dipped Peppermint Oreos
- Peppermint Shortbread Cookies
What You’ll Need
This Grinch Cookie recipe is a breeze to make! As always, you can find the full printable recipe with complete instructions in the recipe card at the end of this post. Let’s take a look at what you’ll need:
- white cake mix – I used Pillsbury white cake mix but any kind of white cake mix will work. Use a gluten-free mix for gluten-free cookies.
- unsalted butter – softened
- eggs – room temperature
- peppermint or mint extract
- vanilla extract
- green gel food coloring – this is a nice option for a lighter green or you can go darker with this gel coloring.
- powdered or confectioner’s sugar –
- cornstarch – this helps the powdered sugar stick to the cookies without being completely absorbed. You can use tapioca starch or arrowroot powder as well.
- Red heart shaped sprinkles
Raid your leftover Valentine’s Day sprinkles and you’re likely going to find some hearts. If not, here are a couple online options:
- Heart Sprinkles – These are my favorites and I think your best option. Really good quality and it’ll get your ready for Valentine’s Day with an assortment of sprinkles. (Just make these cookies pink for Valentine’s Day!)
- Cinnamon Hearts – will add a nice punch of flavor to the cookies.
- Jumbo Heart Sprinkles – These are bigger than the ones I used which make a nice big impact.
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DR. ANNE DRANITSARIS is a clinical psychotherapist and corporate therapist with more than 30 years experience in professional and personal development. She was named one of Oprah’s top 10 protégées in 2009. Her work has been showcased in numerous issues of O. She lectures on a wide range of topics to major national and international corporations. Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard has over 20 years experience working with leaders, teams, entrepreneurs and individuals. Together they developed the Striving Styles Personality System.
| Название | Who Are You Meant to Be?: A Groundbreaking Step-by-Step Process for Discovering and Fulfilling Your True Potential |
| Авторы | Anne Dranitsaris , Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard |
| Издатель | Sourcebooks, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1402274017, 9781402274015 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 384 |
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| Экспорт цитаты | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |
