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Teaching Improv(isation)
Hi! Thanks for taking the time to read this.
At my school, we have two Improv teams: a Junior team and a Senior team. I am on the Senior team, and run the Junior as well as the Senior team with my friend. We organize practices, competitions, T-shirts and workshops- it's a lot of work, but I love it! Both teams participate in the Canadian Improv Games (CIG).
Anyway, we are tired of doing similar warm-ups/Improv games during practices. Does anyone have any suggestions as to some games we could play in order to have fun and raise the team's skill level?
Please don't recommend the following, as we already play/practice/perform these:
-Pop Up Book
-BANG
-Whoosh Whoosh Whoa!
-Cat and Mouse
-Life Event
-Story Event
I would appreciate all suggestions!
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First of all, I don't know any of the names to these, so i'm not sure if they are the same as what you are saying or not, so sorry if they are. There is this one gemae that we played when i took an improv class. And it was like you had to tlak in all questions. It was really hard because you couldn't andven say No. why? ALl questions. For example, you name a random settin, umm.. the pizza parlor. What pizza place are we at? Didn't you choose this place? etc.
We also played this game where you had 3 people and code words like one was pie two was coffe three was chocolate
and you have a scene like a coffee shop and your sitting there talking and when someone says one of the code words (pie,coffee,chocolate) then they leave or come back. But the trick is that when you leave you have to mkae an excuse like oh, i have to go to the bathroom. And when you return be like woah, i needed that. If you don't get it then send me a personal question and i'll explain better.
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There's a game in Theatre class we played, its called Put(pŭt) Put. You have two rows of people, all facing one direction. And you tell the first person in he front a sound that a vehicle makes, like put put. The person in front is to turn around say put put to the person behind them, and it goes down the line to the last person who says it four times to send it back up. The object of the game is to be the first to send several sounds back to the front first. Its meant to improve reaction time.
Charades is a simple improv game that anyone can do. Human Mirror, where two people partner up and one copies the motions of the other. Shadow is like Human Mirror, but one person actual does the improv while the other copy pantomimes behind them, like a shadow.
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