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 Trizophrenia Time travel Genre replay One word story Horoscope Replay of the high arts Terrorist Stage Directions Boris Anette, the nice one Whose line Before or after Press Conference Multiple personalities Monkey in the Middle Avoid a letter Roller Coaster Word replay Radio Mix Job Center Animal Rollercoaster Sex with me... Hat off Dutch Square Ballad singer Blindline Marriage Guidance Talk at touch Orlando Alliteration Klapphörnchen Three dead characters

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 (61) # 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 He said, she said 3 X different Walking Backwards The Conscience Scene mix 10x20 Character exercise (character switch) New Choice Picking gifts Country saying Step by step Yes, and because Gibberish Circle Kennedy Blind Lead Throwing light Storytelling with movements Playback Show Vocal Chain

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) Falling Fred Schneider Storytelling with movements King of Siam Nightingale Peculiar neighbor Hot Spot Playback Show Group Stop Category Die Hey and Ho Follow the king Knights, Horses and Cavaliers Johannes touch palms Blinking place change Bippity Bippity Bop Walking with speed levels Circle Up Kennedy Genetically modified mouse Emotional Fruit Salad Mr. Hit me Ten Fingers Living Scenery Barney Digits Machine Hide body Ball Metamorphosis Rebrand things What Are You Doing! Last word - first word Hand snake Quick Death Seven Things Flock Dance House - residents - flood Endless snake Cross Circle Block of ice Free Association Slow-motion Rumble Jumpers I am a tree Bunny Bunny Alien, Tiger, Cow Simulclap rhythm exercises Kitty wants a corner

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

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

Improv Forms

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

More Improv

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

Organisation

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

Improv Groups

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

Rules & Tips

Show all Rules & Tips (1) Performance

Ask Fors

Show all Ask Fors (3) List of further ticks of figures List of activities 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) syllables Group formation Ten Fingers Truth and lie Sex with me... Balloons