Here are the list of Strengths – ordered to track with an improviser’s growth from novice to artist – linking to the relevant piece of the matrix:
- Vulnerable Confidence – Player is emotionally and personally accessible
- The Details – Player is specific with descriptions
- Bold Choices – Player initiates with active endowments
- Self Contained Initiations – Player initiations ground them while allowing scene partners freedom
- Emotional Perspective – Player is emotionally affected and has emotionally connected desires
- Committed Mime – Player engages the world on a blank stage, showing rather than telling
- Agreement to What Is – Player accepts whatever is happening on stage as the “right” thing
- Reacting – Player is affected by scene elements
- Active Endowments – Player focuses on elements on-stage in the present
- Patterns of Emotional Behavior – Player establishes a cause-and-effect reaction and works to repeat it
- Pattern Progression – Player’s contributions heighten in relatable steps
- Capping Patterns – Player knows when to disengage a game to build tension for its return
- Crafting Beautiful Trajectories – Players establish a rhythm between personal and scenic games
- Enabling Sustainable Scenes – Players use game patterns and patterns between games to keep scenes flowing
- Tertiary Additions – Player only enters scenes in progress to serve what has already been established
- Beat Structure Rhythm – Player initiates subsequent beat scenes focused on heightening established patterns
- Playing with Flexible Formats – Team trust and knowledge of each other allows them to discover their format in-the-moment
- Confident Vulnerability – Player doesn’t stop at “good” on the way to “great”