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 (115) # Talking 9 # Switches 12 # 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 2 # Replay 10 # In Black and White 3 # Slapstick-Bustle-Action 3 # Other 2 # Dubbing 3 # Audience on stage 2 # Status Games 0 Radio Mix Boris Alliteration Anette, the nice one Pen Friends Drop A Line F.I.S.H. Dr. Know-It-All Freeze Tag Story Solo Klapphörnchen Sing a dialogue Color Change The central theme Role reversal Customer Service Party Quirks Roller Coaster The Evil Twin Dutch Square Duet Slideshow Worlds worst Whose line Music-Café The Conscience Talk at touch Questions Only Hot Spot That sounds like a song Revolving Door

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 (58) # Action Reaction 2 # Accepting 10 # Breathing 0 # Expression 2 # Character 4 # Storytelling 9 # 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 8 Award ceremony Big Booty House - residents - flood Kennedy Advance and Expand Peculiar neighbor Blind Lead Slow-motion Rumble Gentle manipulation - dressage Anything Fabric Sit, Stand, Lay Throwing light Guess status Conceptual circle One word story Traffic light The strict Boss Character exercise (character switch)

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) Seven Things What Are You Doing! Bippity Bippity Bop Kennedy Genetically modified mouse Blind Stalker Fred Schneider Last word - first word Kitty wants a corner Forming Molecules Machine Hey and Ho Free Association Quick Death Ball Metamorphosis Be my fan Category Die increase Walking with speed levels ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Flock Dance You Zip Zap Zoop Group Stop rhythm exercises Johannes Blinking place change Circle Up I am a tree Bunny Bunny Digits Storytelling with movements Duck, duck, goose Living Scenery Block of ice Hand snake Molecules Slow-motion Rumble Mr. Hit me Sword of samurai The monster Playback Show Cross Circle Emotional Fruit Salad Yes, let's House - residents - flood Clap Focus Knights, Horses and Cavaliers Names - Go and clap Peculiar neighbor

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

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) List of activities Genre List Occupations List List of further ticks of figures Hobbies List of places List of relationships

Improv Forms

Show all Improv Forms (15) Found Objects The Milano Bring your thing Camp Fire Stage Directions Peekabooker Spokes Books Parade apartment building The seven year itch Slumdog Impronair Words that change the world Lotus Harold Superscene

More Improv

Show all More Improv (4) Books Del Close Keith Johnstone Charna Halpern

Organisation

Show all Organisation (3) Musician The Black Box Improv Theater Stage lighting

Improv Groups

Show all Improv Groups (15) K.A.R.L. Improv Imprudentes Improv.pl Dirty Scoundrels ITC Impro Training Center Dangerbox Improv Kolektiv Narobov Rapid Fire Theatre Improbanden Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia Waiheke Comedy Show Cachorrada Impro Clube TAMTi Yes, Chef! Barcelona Improv Group (BIG)

Rules & Tips

Show all Rules & Tips (1) Performance

Ask Fors

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

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) Group formation Ten Fingers Sex with me... Balloons syllables Truth and lie