Sunday November 10th filled me with pride. My 301 Patterns & Games class performed their showcase. And it was great. Their energy was high. Their support, unwavering. And their commitment to building collaborative patterns using the rubrics' guidance led to hilarious moments. Those rubrics? The One Person Scene. To The Ether games. Help Desk games. […]
GUS, the delightful and talented team from The Baltimore Improv Group, opens its sets these days by asking the audience for "Three non-geographic locations." Asked to come up and lead a practice, I brought this exercise with me. We had a lot of fun with it. You will, too. Have you ever been in The […]
Make a choice the moment you enter stage. Choose to feel. Feel something about something - an imagined object, mimed activity, and/or your scene partner. Allow both you and your scene partner to be dynamic. Here's the final scene from a class building out that progression and its value: [videopress L5WDXzrA] And here's the class' outline […]
When asked for a desired focus for a scheduled coaching session, a Duo sent me the following: Mainly character stuff, fleshing them out versus building out more plot. Getting better at finding and sticking to the game of the scene. What follows is some didactic and exercises that filled two hours. DIDACTIC: How do You […]
Objective: Players entering a scene in progress should always seek to heighten the games already in play. Heightening those games with concentrated pattern mechanics will increase the impact of those tertiary moves. The following outlines Tertiary and Polish moves with supporting video of me actually teaching a class those moves: Walking On and Walking Off […]