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 (114) # 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 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 Talking animals Klapphörnchen The hitch-hiker Potpourri Stage Directions Alliteration Anette, the nice one Backwards Interview Reclamation Buzz Worlds worst People Watching Hot Spot Poets with Feeling Whose line Prison visitor Talk at touch Emotional Workplace Mousetraps From the viewpoint of Orlando Alliteration Roller Coaster Quintet Avoid a letter Family Dinner Conducted Story Ballad singer Dubbed commercial Living Scenery Customer Service RollbackHere 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 (57) # 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 1 # 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 Traffic light Advance and Expand Storytelling with movements Sit, Stand, Lay One word story New Choice Walking with speed levels Award ceremony Step by step Country saying Ball Metamorphosis Vocal Chain Character exercise (character switch) Pen Friends La Ronde Samurai Gibberish Circle What Are You Doing!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 (66) Yes, let's Barney Living Scenery Nightingale I am a tree Molecules Hand snake Hey and Ho Ten Fingers What is a what? Alien, Tiger, Cow Category Snap Kennedy Seven Things Call and Reply Machine Clap Focus Cross Circle Simulclap Genetically modified mouse Names - Go and clap Blinking place change Truth and lie The monster Follow the king Sword of samurai What Are You Doing! ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Johannes Endless snake Duck, duck, goose Mr. Hit me Zip Zap Zoop Block of ice Hot Spot Ball Metamorphosis Last word - first word Bunny Bunny House - residents - flood Slow-motion Rumble Group Stop Fred Schneider rhythm exercises Digits Free Association Forming Molecules Playback Show Triangle King of Siam YouBefore 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) Work Exhibition Cancel Interruption Rhymes Gossip Audience Fail Status Shortform Clothes Theatresport Microphone Character Talkativeness Authenticity Curtain Requisite Headline Long Form Gibberish Action and Reaction Play Bill Kissing Break Conflict CROW Ignoring Stage Soap Offer Musician Beat stage hog Chairs Trust Taboo Stringency Encore Questions Clapping Focus Accept Blocking Attitude Ask For GagAs 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
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)
Ask Fors
Show all Ask Fors (3) Hobbies List of further ticks of figures 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 ...
Icebreaker Games
Show all Icebreaker Games (5) syllables Balloons Ten Fingers Sex with me... Truth and lie