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 Potpourri Three dead characters Genre replay Stage Directions Sing a dialogue The Prophet One for all Last word - first word Horoscope Dubbed commercial Pecking Order Three Way Dubbing Blindline Acts of god Prison visitor Questions Only Growing and shrinking Revolving Door The hitch-hiker Rollback Mousetraps That sounds like a song Alliteration Animatronics Jamboree Swinging Pendulum of Death Actor’s Nightmare Blind musical Terrorist Emotional Workplace Scene with a wall CountdownHere 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 Conceptual circle Step by step Character exercise (character switch) Walking with speed levels He said, she said Samurai Advance and Expand Big Booty Silent post Picking gifts Worlds worst Action emotion detail An illustration Anything Fabric 185 xxx walk into a bar Gibberish Circle New Choice Steal the HatHere 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) Quick Death Triangle Peculiar neighbor Call and Reply Names - Go and clap Bippity Bippity Bop The monster Jumpers Hot Spot Endless snake What Are You Doing! Barney Be my fan Mr. Hit me Falling Molecules House - residents - flood Zip Zap Zoop Slow-motion Rumble Group Stop Bunny Bunny Johannes Forming Molecules Living Scenery Sword of samurai Storytelling with movements Digits Four Corners Genetically modified mouse Simulclap ZoomSchwatzMakeafakeliano Seven Things Block of ice Last word - first word Ten Fingers increase Free Association Hand snake I am a tree Category Die rhythm exercises Flock Dance Truth and lie Nightingale Kitty wants a corner Kennedy Circle Up Machine Walking with speed levels Category SnapBefore 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) Musician Accept Gibberish Stage Authenticity Action and Reaction Blocking Headline CROW Status Play Bill Long Form Focus Soap Fail Theatresport Requisite Break Clapping Attitude stage hog Conflict Ignoring Shortform Gag Stringency Trust Character Chairs Gossip Cancel Clothes Ask For Work Exhibition Encore Rhymes Microphone Taboo Interruption Questions Audience Talkativeness Curtain Offer Beat KissingAs 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 Occupations List Genre List List of places List of further ticks of figures List of relationships Hobbies
Improv Forms
Show all Improv Forms (15) apartment building Found Objects Bring your thing Words that change the world Spokes Stage Directions Peekabooker Slumdog Impronair Superscene The Milano Lotus Books Parade The seven year itch Harold Camp Fire
Improv Groups
Show all Improv Groups (15) Kolektiv Narobov Barcelona Improv Group (BIG) Waiheke Comedy Show Improbanden TAMTi Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia Rapid Fire Theatre Imprudentes Dangerbox Improv Cachorrada Impro Clube K.A.R.L. Improv Improv.pl ITC Impro Training Center Dirty Scoundrels Yes, Chef!
Ask Fors
Show all Ask Fors (3) List of activities List of further ticks of figures 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 (5) syllables Ten Fingers Sex with me... Truth and lie Balloons