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Four possible ways of entertaining an audience
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ABSTRACT
The ‘four possible ways of entertaining an audience’ function as inroads to the development of individual style; signposts towards power sources and a concrete means of merging impulse with form. Al Wunder’s inclusion of Beauty as a way of entertaining an audience certainly functions as a way for improviser and spectator to re-approach the concept and, after Stuart Richmond, ‘regain a stronger sense of human values and pleasure in living’. Despite its pre-eminence as the ‘Holy Grail’ of improvisational states of mind, ‘inspired’ sits alongside ‘searching’ and ‘working’ as a possible way of being at any point in any improvisation for any improviser. Not dissimilarly, Wunder notes that Humour ‘is the means of entertaining most students initially use’ as the pleasure of hearing an audience laugh – the instant gratification that this supply – injects them with the confidence ‘to stay in the present’.