{"id":2023,"date":"2018-06-22T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2018-09-29T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T14:03:10","slug":"henry-alford-so-you-think-you-can-contact-improv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Henry Alford: So you think you can contact improv?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51B6WLwsYTL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Alford's book\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did your school have mandatory square dancing lesson? Mine did, which may be why I&#8217;ll never wear western plaid again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humorist and participatory journalist Henry Alford has not only written for <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>McSweeney&#8217;s<\/em>, <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, and the <em>Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0but also survived elementary school square dancing lessons. His most recent book,\u00a0<em>And Then We Danced<\/em>, details his recent experiences to <del>recover from<\/del> enjoy dancing lessons. Listen in while he describes the process, including his now-signature move while doing contact improv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alford won a Thurber Prize for his book <em>Big Kiss<\/em>, which detailed his acting career. Other books include <em>How To Live: A Search For Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still On This Earth)<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Would It Kill You To Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide To Manners<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6155\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2023-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alford_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alford_mixdown.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alford_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alford_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2023-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alford_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Alford_mixdown.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did your school have mandatory square dancing lesson? Mine did, which may be why I&#8217;ll never wear western plaid again. Humorist and participatory journalist Henry Alford has not only written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney&#8217;s, Vanity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[491,493,490,360,492],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions","tag-and-then-we-danced","tag-contact-improv","tag-henry-alford","tag-humor","tag-square-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}