Looking for an exercise/warm-up that will engage your group in tapping personal emotions and leveraging those emotions in heightened subsequent beats? Continue reading
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Organic Group Games exercises
Objective: To establish and heighten organic group games collaboratively as an ensemble.
Organic Group Games workshop
Objective: To establish and heighten organic group games collaboratively as an ensemble.
Kick The Duck Red Rover Example video
Through “Kick The Duck, Red Rover,” players learn to focus outward and make the random purposeful by mirroring, heightening and supporting one another.
Openings: What, Why and Examples
An Opening is the first piece of a long-form performance presented to the audience. Every show has one. Not every show uses one.
Let Me Show You My Room: an exercise about honesty, details and mime
Objective: This exercise is about channeling personal memories to evoke details and define mime.
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Comic Strip Based Subsequent Beats exercise
Objective: To focus on strong initiations that heighten established games with new stakes, situations, characters and relationships. Continue reading
Tertiary Moves Drill exercise
Objective: To practice initiating and supporting moves from the bag of tricks players utilize when entering scenes-in-progress as a tertiary addition. Continue reading
First & Subsequent Beats Revolver exercise
Objective: To focus on strong initiations that endow personal and scenic games and leverage those quickly defined games with subsequent beat initiations that heighten characters and relationships. Continue reading
1.1 – The Self Contained Emotional Statement
THE SELF CONTAINED EMOTIONAL STATEMENT
How do you start an improv scene? My answer was forged from the perspective of giants’ shoulders.
Mick Napier, of The Annoyance Theater, says we start with just one thing.
– Assume a posture.
– Grab an object.
– Start a motion.
– Engage your environment.
– Embody a character.
– Emote.
What do you do with that one thing? Expand, says Napier. Discover through “if this
than what” extrapolation. Build that one thing out, or draw a line to another point of the
scene.
The direction I believe you should expand to – the scene start structure most conducive to
good improvisation – is the Self-Contained Emotional Statement.
It can be as simple as:
– I love it here.
– I hate the arts.
– I’m uncomfortable.
The Self-Contained Emotional Statement aligns you with an emotional perspective. It’s a solid foundation on which to build the possibilities. Continue reading