Looking for an emotional matching warm-up? Try Carpool! If we agree, we can just be; we don’t have to explain or defend. Have fun just being emotional together, trusting that your commitment to the same emotion is all the context for your relationship that’s needed. [wpvideo XGLFUBhm] Performers are: David Adams, Guy Chapman, Patrice Deveaux, […]
Mirroring/repeating language, details and rules heightens a group’s work while keeping it cohesive. INVOCATION – Players stand in a half circle. On the count of three, a “god” appears before them that they will worship in three phases: First, they will describe it physically; “Oh, God, with your fowl beak.” Second, they will address its […]
Objective: To build scenes by exploring and heightening committed perspectives.
Objective: To play with strong emotional perspectives that evoke strong emotional reactions and drive strong emotional scenes.
How do we build our two person scenes after the initiating sequences? Practice. Let's review the components of strong two person scene initiations: 1. From the moment you enter the stage, actively engage either your environment or your scene partner with an emotional perspective dialed up to 11. That is all. With that, or those, […]
When we spontaneously emit an emotion toward something imagined on a blank stage, that's crazy - and the audience loves it. Society's path to "maturity" often overlaps with a push to subdue your emotions; the upside is that people like watching other people share their emotions on stage - it's a cathartic surprise. A scripted actor’s […]
The key to sustainable, dynamic two person scenes that are most conducive to improv as improv does best is setting up patterns of emotional behavior. While in the Facebook age, the world defines their friends by who, what, where and when, we know we know a person when we can say, “That’s how he is.” […]
In pursuing improv as improv does best, we seek to establish patterns of emotional behavior, leveraging them in developing sustainable scenes and subsequent beats. To aid in that pursuit, focus on following a character's "How."
Emotional Context: Committed emotion is all the “what” and “why” a scene needs. What’s extra fun is that, when we do have emotion, that emotion can add/change the meaning of our words and heighten the depth of our scenes. EMOTIONAL NURSERY RHYME – Around a circle, a player recites a common nursery rhyme with an […]
Emotional Character Development: We don’t need it “all figured out” the moment we step on stage. Make one choice and then build other choices on top of that choice. We can start with emotion and build the details of our character around that. Or, we can start with a detail and build an emotional character […]