# Ruth Zaporah
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Action Theatre is an improvisational performance technique developed by the American performance artist, ruth zaporah. Action Theatre is defined by its focus on embodied awareness, the tracking of the present moment through sensory experience, and by a structured training that uses exploration to build the performer's 'formal dexterity and the ability to “listen” to oneself and one’s acting partners'. This physical theatre technique is documented in Zaporah's 1995 book, Action Theatre: The Improvisation of Presence.
In Conversation with Ruth Zaporah
Join me to start a new season of act/re/act with this amazing conversation with Ruth Zaporah. Active in improvisational performance since the 1960s, Ruth shares her wealth of knowledge about improv, Zen Buddhism, and navigating the world as an improvisational artist. The creator of Action Theater, …
Ruth Zaporah: Improvisational Theater
Ruth Zaporah's technique may have seemed radical when she began performing it in the 1970s, but today her style is well established and internationally practiced. Zaporah's improvisational acting technique is known as "Action Theater," and it encourages freedom of movement, language and mind in imp…
Give Your Body Room
Ruth Zaporah is a New Mexico based performance artist, director and teacher. She is internationally known for her innovative work in performance and performance training, particularly in the field of physical theater improvisation. Zaporah spends much of her time on tour, performing and leading tra…
Spark: Ruth Zaporah
Ruth Zaporah's improvisational acting technique is known as "Action Theater," and it encourages freedom of movement, language and mind in improvisation. Spark drops in on one of her classes to see Zaporah and her students at work. Original air date: June 2003.
Conversation with Cass Tunick
Welcome to my conversation with Cass Tunick, a senior teacher of Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater, and an amazing performer in her own right.
In this conversation we talk about, of course, improvisational performance, but also training, collaboration, what happens when you walk on stage with absolut…
Conversation with Susan Murphy
Join me for another episode of act/re/act where I talk with Susan Murphy about her amazing career that includes working with aerial dance pioneer Terry Sendgraff, Action Theater creator Ruth Zaporah, Authentic Movement creator Mary Whitehouse, and even worked with Willem de Kooning. We talk about …
Ruth Zaporah
The audio cast series where Robert has conversations with improvisers working across performing and multidisciplinary arts. You’ll hear him talking to dance and theatre artists as well as those arts practitioners who are working with improvisation more broadly. Interviews with Improvisers stems fro…
Series 2 Trailer
Introducing the second series of six Interview with Improvisers. This series' guests have been working in the realm of improvisation or instant composition for several decades. They each have long and well-established teaching as well as performance practices often rooted in dance or movement-based…
Ruth Zaporah, taught me to not think
This Joan of Art is taken from my Substack ‘Every Day Until I Die’, in which I wrote about Ruth Zaporah, who died on May 12. What this dancer who wanted to use words discovered , devised, and taught about direct expression, about the stage, about improvisation, influenced generations of performers …
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