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 Avoid a letter Before or after Sing a dialogue Freeze Tag Talking animals Award ceremony Serenade One for all Drop A Line Role reversal Backwards Interview "3 free" - Three sentences free Pen Friends Biographical song Radio Mix Rollback Story Solo One word story Replay of the high arts Three Rules Customer Service Monkey in the Middle Duet Dubbed commercial Sit, Stand, Lay Family Dinner Superscene Job Center Slideshow Dutch Square Stage DirectionsHere 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 Step by step Big Booty Country saying Picking gifts 185 xxx walk into a bar The strict Boss The Conscience Yes, and then Worlds worst Conceptual circle ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Conducted Story Category Snap Steal the Hat Advance and Expand House - residents - flood Ball Metamorphosis 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 (66) Alien, Tiger, Cow Be my fan Genetically modified mouse Free Association King of Siam Zip Zap Zoop Group Stop increase House - residents - flood Hey and Ho Sword of samurai Machine Playback Show Blind Stalker Names - Go and clap Barney Hot Spot Bunny Bunny Triangle Storytelling with movements What is a what? Falling The monster Bippity Bippity Bop Blinking place change Truth and lie Quick Death Peculiar neighbor Category Snap ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Simulclap What Are You Doing! Endless snake Category Die Slow-motion Rumble Last word - first word Walking with speed levels Call and Reply Johannes rhythm exercises Flock Dance Ten Fingers Ball Metamorphosis Nightingale Circle Up Hand snake Living Scenery Digits Kitty wants a corner Clap FocusBefore 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) Kissing Attitude Conflict Action and Reaction Accept Ignoring Focus Questions Musician Headline Talkativeness Theatresport Curtain Gossip Break Cancel Status Ask For Rhymes CROW Clapping Clothes Encore Requisite Offer Microphone Authenticity Interruption Character Stage Taboo Beat Gibberish Trust stage hog Soap Shortform Blocking Long Form Gag Chairs Audience Play Bill Stringency Fail Work ExhibitionAs 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 relationships List of further ticks of figures Genre List Hobbies List of places List of activities Occupations List
Improv Forms
Show all Improv Forms (15) Words that change the world Bring your thing Superscene The seven year itch Stage Directions Camp Fire Found Objects The Milano Slumdog Impronair Lotus Harold Books Parade apartment building Spokes Peekabooker
Improv Groups
Show all Improv Groups (15) Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia K.A.R.L. Improv Cachorrada Impro Clube ITC Impro Training Center Yes, Chef! Dangerbox Improv Dirty Scoundrels Imprudentes Barcelona Improv Group (BIG) Improbanden Kolektiv Narobov Improv.pl Rapid Fire Theatre TAMTi Waiheke Comedy Show
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) Truth and lie syllables Ten Fingers Sex with me... Balloons