ABSTRACT
Improvisation is as much part of training as it is of a performance's creation process. It has three types: Improvisation with fixed elements, improvisation within the parameters of a principle, Improvisation starting from a theme. Geronimo had hardly crossed the threshold of the theatre on my arrival in Holstebro when Iben took me to her dressing-room and made me wear a rust-coloured tunic of coarse cotton. At one point Eugenio turned to him and said: 'You are in the king's garden. You are afraid. But someone holds your hand and it becomes light'. He remembers clearly the feeling of the wooden floor under my feet: it was the only thing that he could hold on to. When he opened his eyes he found himself looking at the weak light of a lamp. He still remembers the beginning of that first improvisation of mine.
