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.
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Improv Games
Show all Improv Games (112) # 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 2 # Speech 7 # Direction Games 2 # Replay 10 # In Black and White 3 # Slapstick-Bustle-Action 3 # Other 1 # Dubbing 3 # Audience on stage 2 # Status Games 0 The Excuse Countdown Trizophrenia Biographical song Family Dinner Sing a dialogue Living Scenery Avoid a letter Old Job - New Job Emotional Workplace Pen Friends Stage Directions Talking animals Buzz The Voice Job Center Backwards Interview Genre replay The Prophet Replay of the high arts Whose line Alliteration Horoscope Newscast Prison visitor Blindline What's on TV? Roller Coaster Animal Rollercoaster Music-Café PotpourriHere 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 (55) # Action Reaction 2 # Accepting 10 # Breathing 0 # Expression 2 # Character 3 # Storytelling 8 # 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 6 # Other 5 # Status 1 # Dancing - Choreography 0 # Trust 1 # Perception 3 # Physicalness - Movement 2 # Speech 2 # Presence 1 # Heighten 0 # Finding Game 1 # Listening 4 # Relationship 0 # concentration 1 # Association 7 What is a what? One word story Action emotion detail Scene mix 10x20 New Choice Big Booty Pen Friends House - residents - flood Category Snap I am a tree Conducted Story Blind Lead Kennedy Yes, and then Vocal Chain What Are You Doing! Anything Fabric ZoomSchwatzMakeafakelianoHere 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 (65) Last word - first word Group Stop Follow the king Be my fan Hot Spot Kennedy What Are You Doing! Endless snake Simulclap increase Fred Schneider Flock Dance Bunny Bunny Free Association Mr. Hit me King of Siam Four Corners The monster Nightingale Storytelling with movements Living Scenery Triangle rhythm exercises House - residents - flood Cross Circle Duck, duck, goose Clap Focus Zip Zap Zoop You Molecules Seven Things Ball Metamorphosis Blind Stalker Peculiar neighbor Category Die Johannes Hey and Ho Quick Death Falling Slow-motion Rumble I am a tree Barney Genetically modified mouse Names - Go and clap Category Snap Bippity Bippity Bop Blinking place change Machine Kitty wants a corner Playback ShowBefore 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 (46) Status Fail Trust Microphone Theatresport Audience Questions Cancel Attitude Ignoring Conflict Clapping Offer Stage Stringency Gag Requisite Character Shortform Taboo Interruption Action and Reaction Soap Kissing Play Bill Gossip Accept Long Form Headline Talkativeness Musician Curtain Beat Focus CROW Ask For stage hog Gibberish Rhymes Authenticity Chairs Work Exhibition Clothes Break Blocking EncoreAs 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) Hobbies Genre List Occupations List List of further ticks of figures List of activities List of places List of relationships
Improv Forms
Show all Improv Forms (15) Harold Superscene The seven year itch Peekabooker apartment building Spokes Lotus Stage Directions The Milano Found Objects Slumdog Impronair Books Parade Bring your thing Camp Fire Words that change the world
Improv Groups
Show all Improv Groups (15) Dirty Scoundrels Barcelona Improv Group (BIG) Imprudentes K.A.R.L. Improv Rapid Fire Theatre Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia Waiheke Comedy Show ITC Impro Training Center Dangerbox Improv Cachorrada Impro Clube Kolektiv Narobov Yes, Chef! TAMTi Improbanden Improv.pl
Ask Fors
Show all Ask Fors (3) List of further ticks of figures Hobbies List of activitiesOften 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 ...