One trios heightens a One Person perspective. The other trio heightens the established pattern with the other side's response. [wpvideo GcrgnSgN] From my 2014 District Improv Festival "Boldly Go, Boldly Follow" workshop featuring Coonoor Behal, Pete Bergen, Jamie Bingner, Christine Crocker, John Heiser, Scott Holden, Jeff Hughes, J.J. Jackson, Patricia Kostiuk, Scott Kostiuk, Colleen McKenna, […]
Looking for another exercise to help players drill Organic Group Games? Look no further.
Every Wednesday on Twitter @Improyster, we play #WordAssociationWednesday. I start, others contribute, and we play. It's fun. You should play with us. Collected here (and to be updated with time) are some of my favorites.
Every Tuesday on Twitter @Improyster, we play #ToTheEtherTuesday. I start, others contribute, and we play. It's fun. You should play with us. Collected here (and to be updated with time) are some of my favorites.
Objective: To establish and heighten organic group games collaboratively as an ensemble.
Objective: To establish and heighten organic group games collaboratively as an ensemble.
Here's a video of me teaching the group the Kick The Duck, Red Rover exercise. It's long, containing many iterations of the exercise by the group with lots of rambling by me in between those iterations. But talk about a progression! Watch them grow: [wpvideo bcNrWOVn]
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]
Improvisation: Making it up as you go along. A group of players gets on stage without previously rehearsed lines or blocking and acts out. The audience understands that this show is constructed from nothing before their eyes. In these aspects, improvisational performance differentiates itself from any other performance medium. Improvisation then is at its best […]
OFFER, SET, CEMENT: THAT'S GAME! Some definitions: Pattern - a sequence that can be repeated / a structure that can be reused Game – a sequence of actions, related by rules of cause-and-effect, that heightens with repetition A rocketship, A thumb and An aardvark. That's a fine pattern. A rocketship, A thumb and An aardvark. […]