in Chicago
. He also taught at Columbia College
and Players Workshop. He studied under Viola Spolin
. De Maat and Del Close
were the two main figures of the Chicago improvisational comedy scene in the late 80's and throughout the 1990s.
De Maat began working at The Second City as a teenager washing dishes in the kitchen and began teaching classes at The Second City for his aunt, Josephine Forsberg
, when he was 18 years old.
You are pure potential.
The Hokey Pokey|Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!
The base of the work is one of individuals believing in themselves, trusting themselves in the moment and being accepting of themselves and the people around them. In order to improvise in front of an audience, you have to be accepting, involved in the moment and courageous. Those issues, when transferred over to general communication, makes the communication richer and helps in all areas of life.
You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see... it's allowing someone to know who you are when you have all these defenses to keep them from knowing.
Each of us is unique, and if we don't respect that uniqueness, if we don't allow that which we are to surface, then the world doesn't have it
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."