Looking for an exercise to help with creating characters and embracing endowments? Here's one for you.
Looking for an exercise to help with creating characters and embracing endowments? Here's one for you.
I get excited every time Alan Volmer and Jonathan Nelson start a scene together. They're able to create rich character with rich worlds expressed through rich reactions on a dime. This scene begins beautifully, with Alan establishing some physical business and Jonathan establishing a Personal Game for himself. When Alan references his prediliction for spider […]
Not a super fan of a scene? Don't sweep it under the rug - you may want to forget about it but the audience may not be able to. Better then to double down on it. Use the Help Desk dynamic to heighten the interaction and turn a "not great" initial scene into the base […]
Tertiary Player Good Faith Mantra – I will only enter a scene in progress to serve what has already been established. If you're entering a scene in progress, that scene is not about you. If you Walk On, you should only do so to heighten a reaction already perceived in the scene - feed a character's […]
Improv AUDIO? That's not a Bat? Yes. It works. Listen.
Watch as the Johnsons' pattern recognition skills bring down the house and the lights. [wpvideo zYVtL4UX]
Players build a pattern by heightening the initiating sequence of perspectives through a new lens. [wpvideo 6PFRmbbR] 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, Ellen Reiterman, Sara Rouhi […]
Looking for an exercise/warm-up that will engage your group in tapping emotions between characters and leveraging those emotions in heightened subsequent beats?
Looking for an exercise/warm-up that will engage your group in tapping personal emotions and leveraging those emotions in heightened subsequent beats?
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]