At the Nursery, we believe that creative collaboration is a natural, human activity. It is both productive and fun, and always has been. But why is it so important in the current market? What makes improv an essential skill in the 2020’s? Here are five reasons why taking improv training...
Having shipped all of the things the Nursery owns off to a storage location in Bermondsey, the team decided it was time for a nice outing. Hey (said Harry), there’s an exhibition on at the Wellcome collection about play. We should go. A group of improvisers heading to an exhibition...
Liz is an Artistic Director of the Maydays with twenty years of performance experience. She is a certified embodiment facilitator, leadership and agility trainer, as well as being and improviser, teacher and coach. In this podcast she talks about what brought her to embodiment, what is means and how...
What are the rules of improv? In the end, there aren’t really any. As long as everyone watching and playing is having a good time, you can do whatever you like, however you like. It is improv, after all. But when you go to your first improv class your teacher might...
Back before the summer I attended the Global Institute of Improvisation conference. I have already written about it here, but this blog that you are reading is something I have been trying to get out of my head ever since. Some ideas just won’t leave you alone. During the opening panel...
THIS BLOG WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED WITH ONLY HALF THE TEXT AND ENDED ON A REAL DOWNER. I HAVE INDICATED WHERE THE ADDED SECTION STARTS IF YOU WANT TO JUST READ THAT BIT.One way and another, it has been a difficult year. The Nursery has come to the end of...
This Saturday is the final of the Rugby World Cup 2019. The burly steak-fed South Africa face the burly sausage-and-mash-fed England. England’s first time out of the pool stages for twelve years comes to a head in a grudge match against a springboks team out to prove a point. Does...
This podcast's guests Laura and Gael are recently wed, and we are very pleased that this podcast didn't get lost as we thought it did. That's why it is so late being published....