Tonight, just for fun, I tried improvising to five minutes of an audiobook. The book in question was An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, one of my favourite authors, and tied for second place with Neil Gaiman in my all-time nerdcrush hall of fame (yes, I have one. Doesn't everyone?).
I have done a lot of improvisational movement in my life, but never have I ever danced to an audiobook. It was fascinating! I found myself being goofy and graceful and awkward and odd all in a five-minute period. Such an interesting exercise because there are so many ways you can play it: do you dance to the cadence of the voice, to the characters, or do you act out the actual words? I imagine that it would change with every story -next time I might try, say, Twilight, or Doctor Who: The Last Voyage, or one of the His Dark Materials trilogy, and it will be totally different. I love it! I'm adding this to my mental list of exercises. So glad I tried it!
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