Association

Anything Fabric

Time: 5 Minutes *Number of Participants: * Preferably for groups of about 10-15 people. *Required Equipment: * A piece of fabric large ...

Association Circle

All players form a circle. One in the circle says a word to their neighbour. The neighbour associates a new word with that term and says ...

Association Walk

Everyone walks through the room. One player suddenly stops with a loud stomp and points at someone. Everyone freezes. The stomper says a...

Category Die

This is useful as a warm-up and it is also useful in performance even. The exercise forces you to be spontaneous and it also helps you ...

Category Snap

Video example Improv Warm-Ups: Category Snap

Dissociation

The player "associates" words one after the other that have "nothing" to do with each other. If a suitable word is associated or if the p...

Dissociation

Players stand in a circle. Each must respond to the previous word with something that has nothing to do with it. If a logical association...

I am a tree

I am a tree is a very popular improv exercise, well suited for beginners. It trains spontaneous offers, scene-building from the body, and...

Jeopardy

Like the TV show: one player gives an answer first, and the other must come up with the matching question. Player A: 'Forty-two.' Player...

Noun-Adjective Association

Two groups form facing lines. The first person says a noun and goes to the back of the opposite line. The person across associates an adj...

Online Association Game

Player A says a word. Player B associates a word and says it aloud. Player C writes their association to A's original word in the chat. P...

Pair Association

The game works from four people on, but it's clearly more fun with more people. The players form a circle. Two players, picked at random...

Paperclip Game

A great exercise for recognizing patterns and heightening offers. Players stand in a line. One steps forward and describes a mundane obje...

Picking gifts

The players are in a circle. One begins and picks any object from the air. He holds it in a certain way and presents it to his neighbour ...

Seven Things

Seven Things is a warm up in which players ask each other to name seven things that fall into a made up category. Anybody may start by ca...

Sex with me...

The game is played by choosing a subject of comparison. The players get the prompt "sex with me is like ..." followed by what is chosen t...

Story Solo

One player stands in front of 4-5 players who are sitting with they backs to the public. The main player starts telling a story for a cou...

Thunderdome

Players form a circle. Two stand in the center facing each other. Someone from the circle gives a category (e.g. vegetables). The circle ...

Verbal Hunt

The facilitator fires rapid questions that players must answer using the association principle — as fast as possible. The questions shou...

Word Swing

Two players face each other, swinging their arms forward and back in sync. After three swings, on the fourth upswing, both simultaneously...