Looking for an exercise/warm-up that will engage your group in tapping personal emotions and leveraging those emotions in heightened subsequent beats?
Looking for an exercise/warm-up that will engage your group in tapping personal emotions and leveraging those emotions in heightened subsequent beats?
Objective: To establish and heighten organic group games collaboratively as an ensemble.
Objective: To establish and heighten organic group games collaboratively as an ensemble.
Through "Kick The Duck, Red Rover," players learn to focus outward and make the random purposeful by mirroring, heightening and supporting one another. [wpvideo fzG0OXWp]
An Opening is the first piece of a long-form performance presented to the audience. Every show has one. Not every show uses one.
Objective: This exercise is about channeling personal memories to evoke details and define mime.
Objective: To focus on strong initiations that heighten established games with new stakes, situations, characters and relationships.
Objective: To practice initiating and supporting moves from the bag of tricks players utilize when entering scenes-in-progress as a tertiary addition.
Objective: To focus on strong initiations that endow personal and scenic games and leverage those quickly defined games with subsequent beat initiations that heighten characters and relationships.
THE SELF CONTAINED EMOTIONAL STATEMENT How do you start an improv scene? My answer was forged from the perspective of giants' shoulders. Mick Napier, of The Annoyance Theater, says we start with just one thing. - Assume a posture. - Grab an object. - Start a motion. - Engage your environment. - Embody a character. […]