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"I'd like to
get the whole medical school staff over here to see InterPlay. We don't
teach much about health, just diseases. This (InterPlay) is
mental health!" - psychiatrist after exeriencing a
performance of
"The Unbelieveable Beauty of Being Human" |
What IS InterPlay?Ever notice how open, creative, and enthusiastic kids are? InterPlay offers people that – play as a powerful way to learn, grow, and get where you’re going! Interplay is now taught in 30 cities around the globe, and is used by therapists, health care providers, educators, managers, coaches, artists, spiritual directors, and persons recovering from illness. InterPlay includes practices and a philosophy that promotes fullness and fun while creating community. Simple forms that any "body" can do lead to telling stories, making dances, and singing. Small, incremental steps lead even shy persons of any age to creative expression and fun. Through InterPlay, serious, overworked people learn tools that create ease as they explore an ethic of play. Where InterPlay is HappeningInterPlay is a grass roots movement committed to collaboration, and multicultural, multi-generational community. It consists of tools to create ease, affirmation, and personal and social change. InterPlay is being used in many parts of the United States, in many different settings, and in a number of foreign countries. InterPlay practices and principles appear in classrooms and board rooms, in prisons and churches, in hospitals and hospice. In all these settings and more, InterPlay celebrates diversity and inclusion and breaks down walls between individuals and groups. InerPlay has been shown to create communities that are intergenerational, multicultural, and interfaith. InterPlay As TheatreInterPlay forms, principles and practices are the basis for improvisational performing companies in more than half a dozen cities in the United States. These companies create entire concerts of dance, theatre, and music on a wide variety of themes, entirely on the spot. The original InterPlay based company, Wing It
Performance Ensemble was founded by Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil
Porter in Oakland California in 1989. The Texas InterPlay based
company, Wing & A Prayer Players was
formed by Sheila Collins in
2001. A concert form developed by Winton-Henry and Porter, The Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human, combines Wing It members, InterPlayers from around the country and internationally, and local participants. Performances of The Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human have been presented in San Francisco, Seattle, Raleigh, Chicago, and Sidney, Australia. Play Can Be Good For You!InterPlay is based on the premise that play - the process of making things up and having fun, laughing with others and discovering ourselves is good for us! In a safe, supportive group environment, participants practice incremental steps to creative expression, and with one another, create satisfying moments on the spot. Participants report experiencing laughter, delight, relaxation, amusement, insight, wisdom, feeling energized, and most of all – having fun! (Top) |
“To ignore the fullness of our physicality is to cut the threads in a many colored multi-layered tapestry of knowing.” - Phil Porter
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InterPlay is an
improvisational technique developed over a period of twenty years by
Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter, artists, educators and ordained
ministers, in Oakland California. 