Action Theater (Zaporah)
1970s-present
Ruth Zaporah's body-based improvisational theater — presence tracked through sensory experience, not situational premise. San Francisco Bay Area roots.
Known for
- Founded in Berkeley in the 1970s, alongside Contact Improvisation and the Anna Halprin circle.
- Zaporah's *Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence* (1995) is the canonical text.
- Not improv comedy — the work is physical, meditative, and closer to experimental theater than to UCB-style scene work. Core technique: noticing body sensation as offer.
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