Looking for another exercise to help players drill Organic Group Games? Look no further.
Looking for another exercise to help players drill Organic Group Games? Look no further.
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.
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]
In a long-form improvisational performance that is not a "mono-scene" there is a need to be able to communicate that one scene is ending and another is beginning. An "Edit" is that move communicating a change in scenes. At its core, a "successful" edit need only clearly communicate that transition, but beyond that there are […]
Objective: To build scenes by exploring and heightening committed perspectives.
The link below will connect to a PDF of an 8 Week course designed to prepare improvisers for a long-form performance as an ensemble. Enjoy! Long Form Performance IAIDB Curriculum Patrick Gantz 2013
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.