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 Toaster The Evil Twin Multiple personalities Replay of the high arts Dr. Know-It-All Worlds worst Walking Backwards Sex with me... Dutch Square Actor’s Nightmare Boris Whose line Multi-headed Expert Emotional Workplace F.I.S.H. "3 free" - Three sentences free Freeze Tag That sounds like a song Newscast Alphabet Game Three Rules Chorus groove Party Quirks Living Scenery The hitch-hiker Three Way Dubbing Questions Only Bring your thing Alliteration Serenade Pootie TangHere 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 Gentle manipulation - dressage Vocal Chain ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Bench takeover Kennedy Worlds worst Sit, Stand, Lay I got a better idea! House - residents - flood Anything Fabric 185 xxx walk into a bar Storytelling with movements Playback Show Yes, and then I am a tree Sex with me... 3 X different Throwing lightHere 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) Seven Things What Are You Doing! Bippity Bippity Bop Kennedy Genetically modified mouse Blind Stalker Fred Schneider Last word - first word Kitty wants a corner Forming Molecules Machine Hey and Ho Free Association Quick Death Ball Metamorphosis Be my fan Category Die increase Walking with speed levels ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Flock Dance You Zip Zap Zoop Group Stop rhythm exercises Johannes Blinking place change Circle Up I am a tree Bunny Bunny Digits Storytelling with movements Duck, duck, goose Living Scenery Block of ice Hand snake Molecules Slow-motion Rumble Mr. Hit me Sword of samurai The monster Playback Show Cross Circle Emotional Fruit Salad Yes, let's House - residents - flood Clap Focus Knights, Horses and Cavaliers Names - Go and clap Peculiar neighborBefore 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) Long Form Theatresport Break Blocking Soap Encore Fail Conflict Clothes Kissing Curtain CROW Interruption Cancel Rhymes Musician Requisite Authenticity Stage Microphone Shortform Offer Ask For Gibberish Beat Gag Ignoring stage hog Work Exhibition Character Taboo Clapping Talkativeness Stringency Questions Status Play Bill Headline what is improv? Accept Action and Reaction Chairs Gossip Audience Trust Focus AttitudeAs 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 (6) Group formation Ten Fingers Sex with me... Balloons syllables Truth and lie