Improvisation as a Pedagogy of Organicity in a Work of Textbook Value by Victor Mihăilescu
Improvisation as a Pedagogy of Organicity in a Work of Textbook Value by Victor Mihăilescu

Summary/Abstract: The work Improvisation, the Pedagogy of Organicity is a major, original contribution to the research specific to the field of theatre and performing arts in general, and the art of acting in particular, and the reader interested in the latest editorial entries, ideas, methodologies, especially if he is a specialist, will literally go through it while taking notes. The reviewed work, following a doctoral dissertation awarded Summa cum Laude, is based on a thorough documentation, the research sources, professionally cited in the paper, cover the essential bibliography and the latest works in the field of Theatre Theory and Aesthetics, Actor's Art and Theatrical Improvisation and the vast fields from which the actor's art constantly borrows support and analysis tools – Psychology, Pedagogy, Neurosciences. The material is structured in three main parts, the twinning of which results in the author's original thesis – a compendium of ideas on improvisation and specific methodologies that becomes, through the exceptional quality of documentation and the original contribution of the author's own research, a landmark for actors and theatre pedagogues, theorists and practitioners in the field.

• Details
• Contents