Improvisation on the edge: notes from on and off the stage

Directed not only toward actors, dancers, and other performing artists who draw upon improvisation as part of their craft, this Zen-infused memoir of a life lived creatively will pique the interest of anyone in search of liberation from self-limiting concepts.

What does it mean to live in a body? What does it mean to improvise? Do we wonder whether we're capable of improvisingto make up things as we go, step into the unknown, take a risk that changes our notion of ourselves and the world?

Author Ruth Zaporah has been a professional physical theater performer, writer, director, and teacher for forty years.

Early on she realized that with a shift of perception, every moment of an improvisation holds both the familiar and the utterly new.

With the same shift, so does every moment of life; every moment holds both the known and the unknown. And, as Zaporah says,