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Tag Archives: Small Steps

Game Library: “What Happens Next?”

What Happens Next in the ImprovDr Game Library…?

Posted byimprovdrNovember 17, 2025December 6, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Action, Connections, Exercises, Narrative, Obvious, Options, Over-Originality, Small Steps, Specificity, Story, What Happens NextLeave a comment on Game Library: “What Happens Next?”

Game Library: “Two Chairs”

Ingredients for improv excitement: take two improvisers, add two ubiquitous cabaret chairs, and then stir in an audience volunteer…

Posted byimprovdrOctober 20, 2025October 19, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Active Listening, Justification, Long-Form, Patience, Relationship, Short-Form, Small Steps, Staging, Two Chairs, VolunteersLeave a comment on Game Library: “Two Chairs”

Game Library: “Opera Minutiae”

Making a big deal out of a little event…

Posted byimprovdrNovember 29, 2024November 28, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It Up, That Sounds Like a SongTags:Extending, Heighten, Music, Musicality, Opera, Opera Minutiae, Physicality, Short-Form, Small Steps, StoryLeave a comment on Game Library: “Opera Minutiae”

Game Library: “Forward/Reverse”

Here’s another short-form audience pleaser. Pleaser audience short-form another here’s.

Posted byimprovdrMarch 16, 2024March 18, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Backwards Scene, Caller, Forward/Reverse, gamelibrary, impro, Improv, ImprovDr, Improvisation, Physicality, Short-Form, Small StepsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Forward/Reverse”

Game Library: “Beyond Words”

Let your emotions move you Beyond Words…

Posted byimprovdrAugust 11, 2023August 11, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Beyond Words, Emotional Truth, Physicality, Relationship, Silence, Small StepsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Beyond Words”

Game Library: “Creation Myth Scene”

A mythic departure from more run-of-the-mill short-form adventures…

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 10, 2023October 28, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:Commercial, Creation Myth Scene, Justification, Narrative, Short-Form, Small Steps, Story, TrustLeave a comment on Game Library: “Creation Myth Scene”

“O” is for “Offer”

In search of richer improv building blocks? Here are some ways to craft and inspire your offers…

Posted byimprovdrApril 4, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Advancing, Emotion, Extending, ImprovDr, Improvisation, Long-Form, O is for, Offer, Physicality, Presentational, Representational, Short-Form, Small Steps, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on “O” is for “Offer”

“O” is for “Obvious”

Enjoy these obvious pointers…

Posted byimprovdrMarch 28, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Cleverness, Material, O is for, Obvious, Presence, Small Steps, YouLeave a comment on “O” is for “Obvious”

Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

Here’s an exercise to help pace heightening moves when exploring the game of a scene.

Posted byimprovdrNovember 26, 2021April 30, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Exercises, Extending, Heighten, Heightening Circle, Looking Backwards, Looking Good, One-Downing, One-Upping, Small Steps, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

Game Library: “Shared Story”

“Shared Story” is a deceptively simple narrative game that can help you really flex your story-telling muscles.

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 26, 2021June 9, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Chapter Two, Narrative, Shared Story, Small Steps, StorytellingLeave a comment on Game Library: “Shared Story”

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