Here’s a working and ever-expanding list of improv vocabulary, terms, and concepts. For deeper considerations of these ideas (the original entry versions for my long-term readers) go here for more information. The equivalent in-progress list of games can be found here.
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A is for…
- Abandon
- Accepting
- Accusation (CAD)
- Acting
- Active Listening
- Advancing
- Agreement (see Accepting)
B is for…
C is for…
- CAD
- Callback
- Caller
- Calling it Onstage (see Speaking Your Truth)
- Canadian Cross
- Cancelling (see Erasure)
- Cartooning
- Censorship (see Material)
- Change
- Chapter Two
- Character (CROW)
- Checking In (see Approval or Consent)
- Cleverness
- Comedy
- Commandments
- Commenting
- Commitment
- Complementary Action
- Confession (CAD)
- Conflict
- Connections
- Content (see Material)
- Consent
- Corpsing
- CROW
- Culpability
- Curve Ball
- Curve of Absurdity (see Game of the Scene)
D is for…
- Deal (see Point of View)
- Decider
- Denial (see Blocking)
- Deviser
E is for…
F is for…
- Fear
- Feedback (see Postmortem)
- Focus
G is for…
- Gagging
- Game of the Scene
- Gibberish
- Give (Focus)
- Given Circumstances (see CROW)
- Good People (see Culpability)
- Groupmind
H is for…
- Honesty (see Emotional Truth)
- Hosting
I is for…
- Ignition (see Breaking Routines)
- Improvisation
- Inclusiveness
- Initiation
- Intimacy (See Consent)
J is for…
K is for…
L is for…
M is for…
N is for…
O is for…
P is for…
- Parallel Action
- Passenger
- Patterns (see Connections)
- Perspective (see Point of View)
- Physicality
- Pimping
- Platform (see Balance)
- Playfulness (see Abandon)
- Point of View
- Postmortem
- Postponing
- POV (see Point of View)
- Presence
- Professionalism (see Rehearsal Etiquette)
- Punching Up
Q is for…
R is for…
- Rehearsal Etiquette
- Reincorporation
- Relationship (CROW)
- Revelation (see CAD)
- Rhyme
- Risk (see Abandon)
- Routine (see Balance)
- Rules (see Commandments)
S is for…
- Split Focus
- Spontaneity (see Improvisation)
- Stage Picture
- Stage Violence (see Consent)
- Stakes
- Starting Scenes (see Initiation)
- Status
- Steamrolling (see Bulldozing)
- Stereotype (see Archetype)
- Sticky Feet
- Strangers
- Subtext
- Suggestion (see Ask-for)
- Sweep (see Edits)
T is for…
- Tag (see Edits)
- Take (Focus)
- Talking Heads
- Target Rhyming (see Rhyme)
- Teaching Scene
- Teamwork (see Ensemble)
- Technicians
- Telling
- Third Thought
- Tiebreaker (see Decider)
- Tilt (see Breaking Routines)
- Tip of the Hat (see Mugging)
- Transaction Scene
- Trust
- Truth
U is for…
V is for…
W is for…
- Waffling
- Wearing Your Character Lightly
- Weaving (see Connections)
- What (see Objective)
- Where (CROW)
- Who (see Character and Relationship)
- Wimping
- Winning
- WWW (see CROW)
X is for…
Y is for…
Z is for…
Cheers, David Charles.
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