Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Theatre and Media Arts, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-127).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of New York, 1983. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 283-286).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Louisville, 2004. / Department of Theater Arts. Vita. "December 2004." Includes bibliographical references (leaf 80).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Vita. Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-259).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--York University, 2009. Graduate Programme in Theatre : Acting. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR51615

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2008. / Adviser: J. J. Ruscella. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University. / "The chapters here presented on the history of acting and actors in Greek antiquity form only an introduction to the larger work originally planned."--Pref. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Title from title screen (viewed January 21, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Performing Studies. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliography. Also available in print format.

Enjoining improvisation as chrysalis for dissertation creation, I draw upon immediate responses, surprise, familiarity, and diverse knowers. Being engaged with improvisation as topic and methodology reveals my assumptions and vitality. What matters is my decision not to primarily describe experience as much as express from experiencing. And I acclaim my readers, valuing others' felt experiencing. Along with shaped expressions of my present-time improvisations, improvisation as variously conceived in education, culture, and other meaning-making is reviewed. Throughout this text, intertwining in my ongoing awareness, are feminist, nonlinear systems, hermeneutic, and postmodern theories. Improvisation—approached intentionally—is not reducible to knowledge acquisition nor learned accomplishment. Shaping expression improvisationally activates unbidden responses, events, and textual artifacts. Generative structures include creative dialogue, impressionistic writing, explication, poetry, and letter-writing, along with spatial design and invitations for participation. Improvisational structures and possibilities invite the protean manifestations of themes. Improvisation calls discipline into play, requires paying attention to what is happening with possibilities. Discipline abides with freedom. Constraints—what's a river without banks?—are associated with shaping expression while freely generating movement, sound, concepts, or concrete forms. Improvisation :? Motions for Living Texts is organized in four sections. The first section considers kinesthetic, or movement, improvisation and related awareness, or felt life. The creative work and pedagogy of Barbara Mettler and Viola Spolin are introduced along with Eugene Gendlin's philosophy of experience. The second section elaborates my transition from moving to writing as an improviser. In the third section, meaning becomes expressly engaged and associated further with Gendlin and with diverse proponents of improvisation. In the final section perspectives on language intersect articulation of “living in situations,” where knowing remains in motion. Overall this improvisational discourse valorizes experience as well as knowledge, participation as well as accomplishment. / Graduate