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 Expedition Dr. Know-It-All Reclamation Road Trip Press Conference Animatronics Jamboree Drop A Line Freeze Tag Walking Backwards Story Solo Backwards Interview Fairytale Replay Emotional replay Terrorist Customer Service Toaster That sounds like a song Horoscope Last word - first word Sit, Stand, Lay Alphabet Game Superscene Marriage Guidance Blindline Role reversal Orlando Alliteration Word replay Talking animals Growing and shrinking Family Dinner Slideshow

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 Sit, Stand, Lay Traffic light Action emotion detail Conducted Story What Are You Doing! New Choice Kennedy An illustration Seven Things Character exercise (character switch) Hot Spot The strict Boss Walking Backwards Steal the Hat Category Snap Pen Friends Picking gifts Worlds worst

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) House - residents - flood Walking with speed levels Hot Spot Truth and lie Zip Zap Zoop Jumpers Duck, duck, goose Emotional Fruit Salad Names - Go and clap Kitty wants a corner Be my fan Molecules What Are You Doing! Bunny Bunny Circle Up Simulclap Slow-motion Rumble Barney Bippity Bippity Bop Genetically modified mouse I am a tree What is a what? You Peculiar neighbor ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Endless snake Last word - first word Storytelling with movements Hide body touch palms Group Stop Quick Death Blinking place change Ten Fingers Block of ice Triangle Kennedy Hey and Ho Nightingale Call and Reply Yes, let's Forming Molecules Seven Things Falling Cross Circle Digits King of Siam Alien, Tiger, Cow Machine Clap Focus

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

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

Improv Forms

Show all Improv Forms (16) Books Parade Lotus Peekabooker Bring your thing Harold Stage Directions The Milano Words that change the world The seven year itch Slumdog Impronair apartment building Spokes Camp Fire Found Objects Online Improv Show Technical Guides Superscene

More Improv

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

Organisation

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

Improv Groups

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

Rules & Tips

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

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