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 (113) # 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 1 # Dubbing 3 # Audience on stage 2 # Status Games 0 "3 free" - Three sentences free Walking Backwards Party Quirks Alliteration Expedition Newscast Actor’s Nightmare Story Solo Dr. Know-It-All Translator Family Dinner Monkey in the Middle Three dead characters Puppets Pan Right - Pan Left Word replay Old Job - New Job The central theme Hat off Acts of god Pootie Tang Horoscope One word story Animatronics Jamboree Hot Spot Dutch Square Radio Mix Poets with Feeling Duet Multiple personalities SlideshowHere 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 (56) # Action Reaction 2 # Accepting 10 # Breathing 0 # Expression 2 # Character 4 # 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 La Ronde Anything Fabric An illustration Scene mix 10x20 Conceptual circle Walking Backwards Seven Things Worlds worst Big Booty ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano He said, she said Vocal Chain What is a what? Samurai Picking gifts Sit, Stand, Lay What Are You Doing! Story SoloHere 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) Molecules Bunny Bunny King of Siam ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Ten Fingers House - residents - flood Flock Dance Storytelling with movements Barney Forming Molecules Duck, duck, goose Simulclap Peculiar neighbor Kitty wants a corner Truth and lie Hand snake Block of ice Category Snap Triangle Cross Circle rhythm exercises Digits Bippity Bippity Bop Free Association Fred Schneider Walking with speed levels Follow the king Hey and Ho What Are You Doing! Falling The monster Four Corners Kennedy Nightingale Slow-motion Rumble You Endless snake Hot Spot Clap Focus Be my fan Zip Zap Zoop Emotional Fruit Salad Sword of samurai Quick Death Living Scenery What is a what? Call and Reply I am a tree Blind Stalker Category DieBefore 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) Stage Focus Status Fail Action and Reaction Kissing Beat Ask For Taboo Questions Stringency Accept Musician Blocking Play Bill Offer Microphone Authenticity Clothes Requisite Clapping CROW Interruption Ignoring Shortform Break Gossip Trust Gag Rhymes Work Exhibition Talkativeness Audience Curtain Character Cancel Chairs Headline Theatresport Gibberish stage hog Attitude Conflict Soap Encore Long FormAs 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 places Hobbies Genre List List of further ticks of figures Occupations List List of relationships
Improv Forms
Show all Improv Forms (15) Bring your thing Camp Fire Books Parade Superscene Spokes apartment building Lotus Stage Directions Slumdog Impronair Harold The seven year itch The Milano Peekabooker Found Objects Words that change the world
Improv Groups
Show all Improv Groups (15) Imprudentes Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia Cachorrada Impro Clube Barcelona Improv Group (BIG) Improbanden K.A.R.L. Improv Yes, Chef! TAMTi ITC Impro Training Center Waiheke Comedy Show Improv.pl Kolektiv Narobov Rapid Fire Theatre Dirty Scoundrels Dangerbox Improv
Ask Fors
Show all Ask Fors (3) Hobbies List of activities List of further ticks of figuresOften 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 ...