Warm-ups
Before doing sports, you warm up. Every child knows that. Since theatre is also a form of physical work, one should warm up a bit before starting the actual exercises. On the one hand you can prepare yourself physically and on the other hand you can gain distance to the things that have occupied you all day long. There are many ways to shake everything off, clear your head and prepare your body: Catch playing, ball games, singing, stretching exercises, moving to music. Below are a few concrete examples of how to start an exercise session.
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Balloons
Which group has the most breath? Find out which group has the strongest lungs by trying to keep your balloon in the air longer than the o...
Bippity Bippity Bop
Synonyms Elephant Introduction Everyone into a circle with one person in the center. This warm-up breaks the ice, gets people listenin...
Blinking place change
One (A) is in the middle of a large circle formed by all other players. Now the players are looking for eye contact with each other in a ...
Clap Focus
Synonyms Snap Focus Introduction This warm up is to get people listening, responding fast and reacting without thinking. Everyone gets...
Cross Circle
Synonyms Name Game, Shriner’s Warm-up Introduction This warm up will help us all get moving, listening and learn a few names. Let’s fo...
Duck, duck, goose
Duck, duck, goose or duck, duck, gray duck is a traditional children's game often first learned in pre-school or kindergarten then later ...
Forming Molecules
Everybody runs around the room until the game leader shouts a number. Instantly, everybody forms groups with the same number of players a...
Free Association
Introduction This warm-up will help us get into the moment for improvisation, and help us feel easier about being silly. Description T...
Genetically modified mouse
The players stand together with the game leader in a circle. This places an invisible mouse on the ground, which now runs under the feet ...
House - residents - flood
This warm-up game is only suitable for a slightly larger group: 13 persons and more. It is also called: House creature flood. Groups of ...
Knights, Horses and Cavaliers
The participants move around the playing field and wait for the words "knights", "horses" or "cavaliers" to be called. If one of the wo...
Molecules
Everybody runs around the room until the game leader shouts a number. Instantly, everybody forms groups with the same number of players...
Names - Go and clap
Another warm-up and name game. The players form a circle and reach out one hand to the center of the circle. One player Z stands in the ...
The monster
Player A stands in the middle of a big circle which all the other players form. A is the monster. He moves with forwards outstretched arm...
Triangle
Each player initially takes two other players as reference persons without revealing his selection. It is now the task of all players to ...