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Tag Archives: Warm-up

Game Library: “Questions Only”

I hope I can answer most of your lingering questions in this Game Library entry about a fun and challenging short-form decider.

Posted byimprovdrJune 24, 2022February 22, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Caller, Decider, Questions, Scene Without Questions, Short-Form, Tiebreaker, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Questions Only”

Game Library: “Stop and Go”

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

Posted byimprovdrApril 8, 2022August 17, 2025Posted 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, 2022January 1, 2026Posted 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, 2022December 6, 2025Posted 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: “Freeze Frame”

Open eyes… and peek into the inner workings of “Freeze Frame.”

Posted byimprovdrDecember 31, 2021July 20, 2026Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:All Play, Freeze Frame, Justification, Narrative, Narrator, Physicality, Shivving, Slide Show, Volunteers, Warm-up, Wearing Your Character LightlyLeave a comment on Game Library: “Freeze Frame”

Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

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

Posted byimprovdrNovember 26, 2021September 13, 2026Posted 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, 2021April 22, 2024Posted 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, 2021November 7, 2025Posted 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, 2021May 12, 2025Posted 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, 2021October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:D is for, Decider, Shape of Show, Tiebreaker, Warm-upLeave a comment on “D” is for “Decider”

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