Improv Terms and Vocabulary – Page 39

“B” is for “Bulldozing”

If your excitement can tend to get the better of you on stage, “B” is for “Bulldozing” offers some strategies to help you prioritize your teammates.

Fortunately this exercise can help your storytelling skills. Unfortunately this exercise can thwart your characters’ lives…

I’m breaking up the routine a little with my latest entry, “B” is for “Breaking Routines.”

A hopefully helpful in-progress index to my current “A to Z” of improv terms and techniques series. New entries posted most Mondays!

Here’s a joyously chaotic exercise called “Rule Breaker” that reveals the import of foundational improv strategies.

“B” is for “Blocking” considers the relationship between saying “no” and the fears that many improvisers and performers wrestle with on stage.

This new entry for the Game Library, “Four Sentence Story,” allows players to explore the building blocks of constructing a coherent narrative.

“B” is for “Balance” examines four different definitions of this important improv concept.

Partnered with the concept of Auditions, “Three Through the Door” pushes you to make the leap quickly and resolutely into character.