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Story exchange
Turn a personal story into one that influences the group culture and allow people to connect deeply with each other and themselves around things that matter.
This is not a …
Goal: • Encourages risk taking and creating a safe climate. • Develops creative thinking. Overview: Participants make a circle around an arbitrary object like an empty water bottle. Each participant gets a chance to step forward and demonstrate what else the object could be. Time: 10 – 20 minutes Number of participants: 4 – 12 ...
Improv class 7 – Physicalization
Physicalization is the method used by improv players to create imaginary locations, objects, and events. The best way to help the audience and your fellow players see the objects and environments that you create is if you, yourself, create those imaginary environments. We started the class with a warm-up game called “Sound ball” or “Morph ...
Improvisation class 6 – Status
We started the class with 2 name games, namely Bang bang and George. What I love about George is how the clapping is like the principles of improv. At first it is really difficult to get the clap sequence right, but after some practice you don’t even think about it anymore. It becomes a structure ...
Improv Class 5 – Make up your own story
Story was the focus of this week’s class. We started the class with an exercise from Imago Relationship Therapy. In this exercise each participant gets the opportunity to say in a few sentences what they need to say to be fully present. One of the others must then mirror that persons exact words back to ...
Improvisation class 3 – Make your partner look good.
We started the class with a relaxation exercise to help us become aware of our bodies. Becoming aware of your body is a great way to get out of your head and become present. Next we played a series of mirroring exercises. First just one person creating a sound and a move which is mirrored ...
Improvisation Class 2 – Listening and awareness
Listening and awareness is fundamental for improvisation. Like I mentioned in the previous class, everything is an offer in improvisation and the more offers you can become aware of, the more you have to work with.
Improv Class 2.6 – Who is the hero in your story?
In his book “A million miles in a thousand years” Don Miller distils the essence of a good story as “a character that wants something and overcomes conflict to get it”. In the previous class we focused on creating a strong character (a character that knows what he/she wants). Now to write this character into ...
Improv class 2.5 – What do you really want?
The theme of last week’s class was “what do you really want?” We started the class with a relaxation exercise followed by a warm up game called “Bunny bunny”. This game so excited me that I hurt my back. Luckily Mike had a few amateur chiropractor tricks up his sleeve. After getting all my vertebrae ...
Improv Class 2.4 – Why do you do what you do?
The theme of the class before this one was “Be affected by what you hear.” We played a game in which one player started a scene with a random opening line. The other character then had to have a strong emotional reaction toward this line (see the previous blog). So I started this class with ...
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