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 (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 Alphabet Game Pen Friends The Conscience Orlando Alliteration From the viewpoint of Award ceremony Role reversal Before or after Prison visitor Thing on Thing Blind musical Translator Klapphörnchen Alliteration Animatronics Jamboree Rollback Pootie Tang Customer Service Conducted Story Pecking Order Talk at touch Time travel Trizophrenia Color Change Emotional Workplace Animal Rollercoaster Expedition Sit, Stand, Lay One word story Talking animals TerroristHere 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 Peculiar neighbor Yes, and then Pen Friends Ball Metamorphosis Silent post 185 xxx walk into a bar Category Die I got a better idea! Picking gifts 3 X different Scene mix 10x20 Walking Backwards La Ronde What Are You Doing! Big Booty What is a what? Traffic light Slow-motion RumbleHere 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) Fred Schneider Endless snake Sword of samurai Hot Spot Duck, duck, goose Playback Show Storytelling with movements Knights, Horses and Cavaliers Living Scenery Quick Death Kitty wants a corner Johannes increase Kennedy Walking with speed levels Category Die ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Truth and lie King of Siam Group Stop Four Corners Last word - first word The monster Blind Stalker Emotional Fruit Salad Ten Fingers Category Snap Genetically modified mouse Names - Go and clap Seven Things Slow-motion Rumble Hand snake Machine Cross Circle Alien, Tiger, Cow Be my fan touch palms Clap Focus Blinking place change rhythm exercises Ball Metamorphosis Barney Nightingale Zip Zap Zoop What Are You Doing! Simulclap Triangle Yes, let's Rebrand things Free AssociationBefore 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) Conflict Stringency Rhymes Character Focus Gibberish Questions Accept Action and Reaction Blocking Beat Ask For Gag Clapping Kissing Offer what is improv? Trust Requisite Musician Microphone Interruption Attitude Cancel Play Bill Curtain Theatresport Taboo Stage CROW Authenticity Audience Gossip Shortform Headline Chairs Long Form Encore Fail Status Clothes Talkativeness Break Ignoring stage hog Work Exhibition SoapAs 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) Genre List List of places List of activities List of further ticks of figures Hobbies List of relationships Occupations List
Improv Forms
Show all Improv Forms (16) The Milano Books Parade Online Improv Show Technical Guides Bring your thing Spokes Camp Fire Words that change the world Slumdog Impronair Found Objects apartment building The seven year itch Stage Directions Harold Lotus Superscene Peekabooker
Organisation
Show all Organisation (5) Online Improv Show -- Technical Guides Stage lighting Musician Online Improv Show Technical Guides The Black Box Improv Theater
Improv Groups
Show all Improv Groups (15) ITC Impro Training Center Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia Kolektiv Narobov Dirty Scoundrels Cachorrada Impro Clube Imprudentes K.A.R.L. Improv Dangerbox Improv Improbanden Barcelona Improv Group (BIG) Waiheke Comedy Show Rapid Fire Theatre Improv.pl TAMTi Yes, Chef!
Rules & Tips
Show all Rules & Tips (3) Online Improv Show -- Technical Guides Online Improv Show Technical Guides Performance
Ask Fors
Show all Ask Fors (3) List of further ticks of figures List of activities HobbiesOften 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) Balloons Truth and lie Group formation Sex with me... syllables Ten Fingers