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.
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.
A solid show from The Johnsons. They do a To The Ether Opening followed by 4 first beat scenes (though the 4th tends to have a group game quality about it) and then a run of scenes leveraging old material and focused on patterns and games. [wpvideo 5csEl2f5]
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]
Here's a straight forward To The Ether performed in a workshop. What do you see as the progression? What heightens? What stays the same? [wpvideo QYgrr7iF]
Here's a video example of a To The Ether around poles done in a workshop. The juxtaposed emotions are our poles and emotional intensity defines the progression. [wpvideo fQzwOVUg]
In this clip, The Johnsons of The Coalition Theater in Richmond, VA use a To The Ether game as their Opening. This one's short and sweet. Following his fellow players after the suggestion of "Giraffe," the third player references "toes" in his Cement move, following the giraffe down its body. The fourth move doesn't follow […]
In this clip, The Johnsons of The Coalition Theater in Richmond, VA use a To The Ether game as their Opening. Notice that the progression of the language pattern is not consistent, but the progression of esoteric technologies through heightened engagement into mime is pretty consistent and that pattern earns them a strong laugh. [wpvideo […]