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Tag Archives: Warm-up

Game Library: “Stop and Go”

A warm-up to stretch your give and take muscles…

Posted byimprovdrApril 8, 2022April 7, 2022Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Abandon, Active Listening, Exercises, Give, Give and Take, Offer, Presence, Sharing Focus, Stop and Go, Take, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Stop and Go”

Game Library: “Name Circle”

Here’s a super-sized ImprovDr Game Library entry with eight different name games!

Posted byimprovdrMarch 11, 2022March 18, 2022Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Abandon, Acronyms, Adjectives, Commitment, Connections, Energy, Ensemble, Icebreakers, Name Circle, Names, Physicality, Rhythm, Snake, Warm-up, YouLeave a comment on Game Library: “Name Circle”

Game Library: “Word at a Time Story”

This ImprovDr blog entry includes two approaches to this classic storytelling improv exercise.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 28, 2022March 18, 2022Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Accepting, Looking Backwards, Obvious, Reincorporation, Storytelling, Warm-up, Word at a Time, Word at a Time StoryLeave a comment on Game Library: “Word at a Time Story”

Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

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

Posted byimprovdrNovember 26, 2021March 18, 2022Posted 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: “Go”

There’s a reason “Go” is such a well-loved and widely-used ensemble-building exercise.

Posted byimprovdrAugust 6, 2021March 18, 2022Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Ensemble, Focus, Go, Team, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Go”

Game Library: “Verbal Freeze Tag”

“Verbal Freeze Tag” exercises helpful editing, listening and creativity skills.

Posted byimprovdrJuly 16, 2021March 18, 2022Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Active Listening, All Play, Edits, Freeze, Language Skills, Verbal Freeze Tag, Verbal Skills, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Verbal Freeze Tag”

Game Library: “Sequence Game”

The “Sequence Game” offers a way to brainstorm or refresh material before embarking on style-based or dramaturgically informed work.

Posted byimprovdrJuly 9, 2021March 18, 2022Posted inDramaturgical Improv, Improv Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Performance Strategies, Style It UpTags:Content, Dramaturgical Improv, Focus, Give and Take, Long-Form, Material, Sequence Game, Warm-up, Word AssociationLeave a comment on Game Library: “Sequence Game”

“D” is for “Decider”

The first “D” in our mosey though the improv alphabet is for “Decider,” that ubiquitous and multi-layered feature of most short-form shows.

Posted byimprovdrJune 7, 2021March 18, 2022Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:D is for, Decider, Shape of Show, Tiebreaker, Warm-upLeave a comment on “D” is for “Decider”

Game Library: “Conducted Freeze Tag”

This “Freeze Tag” variation has the benefit of an outside caller’s eye shaping and pacing the action.

Posted byimprovdrMay 21, 2021March 18, 2022Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:All Play, Caller, Conducted Freeze Tag, CROW, Exercises, Freeze, Justification, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Conducted Freeze Tag”

Game Library: “Environmental Freeze Tag”

The ImprovDr Game Library continues to expand with “Environmental Freeze Tag,” a lesser-known warm-up that creates expansive and dynamic locations.

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 5, 2021March 18, 2022Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:All Play, Caller, Characterization, Environmental Freeze Tag, Exercises, Freeze, Justification, Physicality, Staging, Warm-up, WhereLeave a comment on Game Library: “Environmental Freeze Tag”

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