Improv Encyclopedia

In this wiki you will find games and exercises, but also other interesting things about improv. You can participate and bring in your own ideas. Simply register and create your own article.


Improv Games

Show all Improv Games (116) # Talking 9 # Switches 13 # Letter Games 4 # Dialogue Form 7 # Emotion Games 4 # Objects 4 # Chain Games 9 # Physical Contact 1 # Music Games 11 # Guessing Games 3 # Speech 8 # Direction Games 3 # Replay 10 # In Black and White 3 # Slapstick-Bustle-Action 3 # Other 2 # Dubbing 3 # Audience on stage 2 # Status Games 0 Anette, the nice one What's on TV? Hat off Animatronics Jamboree Questions Only The hitch-hiker The Evil Twin Trizophrenia Marriage Guidance From the viewpoint of Backwards Interview Time travel Award ceremony Slideshow Bingo Alliteration Color Change Conducted Story Growing and shrinking That sounds like a song Word replay Swinging Pendulum of Death Pootie Tang One for all Biographical song Help! Emotional replay The Excuse Story Solo Press Conference Serenade

Here you can find a collection of improv games. This collection consists of games that can be performed in a show in front of an audience. Each of them can be announced in advance, or they can be played unannounced ...


Improv Exercises

Show all Improv Exercises (62) # Action Reaction 2 # Accepting 11 # Breathing 0 # Expression 2 # Character 5 # Storytelling 10 # Focus 1 # Memory 1 # Emotions 0 # Group 7 # Impulse 2 # Multitasking 1 # Music and Singing 1 # Pairs 0 # Pantomime 1 # Rhyming 2 # Space 0 # Speed 7 # Other 5 # Status 2 # Dancing - Choreography 0 # Trust 1 # Perception 3 # Physicalness - Movement 2 # Speech 3 # Presence 1 # Heighten 0 # Finding Game 2 # Listening 4 # Relationship 0 # concentration 1 # Association 9 Walking with speed levels Step by step Throwing light The Conscience What Are You Doing! Big Booty Playback Show Sit, Stand, Lay Category Die Storytelling with movements An illustration Story Solo Silent post Ball Metamorphosis Conducted Story The strict Boss La Ronde One word story

Here you can find a collection of exercises for improv theatre. These exercises are intended to train specific aspects and skills in a targeted manner. The transition from exercises to games is fluid. What is still an exercise for one, ...


Warm-ups

Show all Warm-ups (70) Endless snake Machine Walking with speed levels Call and Reply Names - Go and clap Bippity Bippity Bop You Last word - first word Hide body Nightingale I am a tree Hey and Ho Johannes Hand snake Hot Spot Free Association Truth and lie Knights, Horses and Cavaliers Alien, Tiger, Cow Rebrand things Genetically modified mouse Bunny Bunny increase Category Die Seven Things House - residents - flood Be my fan Follow the king Circle Up Barney Storytelling with movements Blinking place change Simulclap Kennedy Peculiar neighbor Living Scenery Yes, let's Kitty wants a corner Quick Death Zip Zap Zoop Falling touch palms Flock Dance Four Corners Playback Show Slow-motion Rumble Emotional Fruit Salad Digits Category Snap Sword of samurai

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 ...


Improv Glossary

Show all Improv Glossary (48) Kissing Questions Shortform Musician Gossip Audience Clapping Action and Reaction Soap Interruption Gag Break Ignoring Chairs Accept Requisite Cancel Stringency Curtain Microphone Talkativeness Attitude Stage Clothes Ask For Gibberish Taboo stage hog what is improv? Fail Trust Encore Rhymes Offer Authenticity Status Beat What is Playback Theatre? Focus Long Form Theatresport Conflict CROW Work Exhibition Play Bill Blocking Headline Character

As in every special field, there are a lot of terms with special meaning in the Improtheater. We have tried to compile and explain some of these terms in our improv glossary.


Lists

Show all Lists (7) Genre List List of relationships List of places List of activities Occupations List List of further ticks of figures Hobbies

Improv Forms

Show all Improv Forms (17) Lotus The Milano The seven year itch Stage Directions Superscene Books Parade Harold Spokes Slumdog Impronair Peekabooker Camp Fire Bring your thing apartment building Online Improv Show Technical Guides The Butterfly Effect Found Objects Words that change the world

More Improv

Show all More Improv (5) Viola Spolin Charna Halpern Keith Johnstone Del Close Books

Organisation

Show all Organisation (5) Online Improv Show -- Technical Guides The Black Box Improv Theater Online Improv Show Technical Guides Musician Stage lighting

Improv Groups

Show all Improv Groups (16) Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Improv.pl Dirty Scoundrels Cachorrada Impro Clube Yes, Chef! Barcelona Improv Group (BIG) Improbanden Dangerbox Improv Rapid Fire Theatre Waiheke Comedy Show TAMTi Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia Kolektiv Narobov Imprudentes ITC Impro Training Center K.A.R.L. Improv

Rules & Tips

Show all Rules & Tips (3) Online Improv Show Technical Guides Online Improv Show -- Technical Guides Performance

Ask Fors

Show all Ask Fors (3) List of activities List of further ticks of figures Hobbies

Often at the beginning of a scene or game you want to get one or more instructions from the audience. Also in the training one would like to start with a handicap. After a while, however, the same words always ...


Icebreaker Games

Show all Icebreaker Games (6) Sex with me... Balloons syllables Truth and lie Group formation Ten Fingers