2-months programme for beginners

When you start moderating an beginner improv group, it is good to have a roadmap which introduces improv topics and principles slowly and gives you set of games and exercises.

If you are an experienced moderator, this programme gives you a base for your workshops and you won't loose sigth of what topics you already teached.

Accepting the weird ideas of the other players is the core principle of improv and the students must get this message from the beggining. On the other hand, games with limitations provide a gentle way to step into the stage and start playing focussed on only one aspect of acting.

• Improv-Games 3 with focus on accepting List of games

Yes and… and limitation games - On Saturday

Hallo Rice Grains,

Are you someone who want to train yourself to cope better with unexpected things? Do you enjoy the sweet surprises of the unknown? Are you the one who have difficulties taking decisions and rather chose to go with flow? In all these cases you will enjoy this workshop: We will start accepting the reality, saying yes to it and enjoying the unexpected games where we are submerged. After some warm-up and initial training games, the complexity of that reality will be increase with a soft limitation like laying down on the ground during the whole scene or having your hands controlled by another player. At the end, you will jump into a storytelling toaster which will push the creativity of your partners and you to its limit!

Beginners and experienced players are more than welcome!

We will meet this Saturday at 15:00 near the bridge at the Englisch Garten:

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Due to the Corona regulations, we will have a maximum of 17 participants and we need to log who comes. Reserve your place here:

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Because we are going to get loose and start saying yes while playing the first games, please be on time. If you have flu or cold symptoms during the 3 days before, we will be thankful if you stay at home. Next Saturday and Tuesday there will be improv again!

Looking forward to have fun with you!

P/D: All credits for this introduction go to Arum Shourie!

Because the room was too noisy with 25 people, I skipped all pair exercises

Emotions and exaggerations - On Saturday

There are two kinds of scenes: Either a day in the life or the day the shit hits the fan. When choosing either on of these choices, there is always an emotion behind it, sometimes even unknown. Improv scenes are more captivating to watch when involving feelings. Think back on a strong memory: Your grandma’s kitchen, you first apartment, your favourite bar- all of these things illicit emotion, which lead to memory of details, smells and environment.

Beginners and experienced players are more than welcome!

Due to the Corona regulations, we will have a maximum of 15 participants and we need to log who comes. Reserve your spot here until tomorrow at noon:

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Because we are going to get loose while playing the first games, please be on time. If you have flu or cold symptoms during the 3 days before, we will be thankful if you stay at home. Next Saturday and Tuesday there will be improv again!

Cheers!

• List of games focussed on emotions

• Increase and decrease in circle
• Circle-up
• Samurai (Mirroring)
• Bunny Bunny
• Columbian Fuck Head
• Only one walks
• Großes Kino
• Emotions Characters (afraid, grateful, surprised, patient)
• Scene with 3 emotions
• Emotional Party
• Disaster movie

List of Games for developing characters

Learn to focus on body language and entonation rather than talking.

• The mouse in the circle
• Synchroapplause
• Do you love your neighbour?
• Asassin

• Same (gesture) circle
• Mirror in circle: After some minutes, one person goes outside and when he comes back he has to guess who is the person anyone is mirroing

• Group Order by age, weight, shoe size, hair colour, finger length, mental health, personal hygiene, number of ex-lovers, by blue
• Blind Line Up

The following games are done in pairs. Changing pairs after every round, so students start loosing their fear of doing eye-contact with others

• Do eye-contact for around 3 minutes
• Mirror face expressions for 5 minutes. Every pair decides on the moment who leads and the leader is changed during the game
• Mirrow face and body expressions for 5 minutes. Every pair decides on the moment who leads and the leader is changed during the game.
• Mirrow face and body expressions and movements around the classroom for 5 minutes. Every pair decides on the moment who leads and the leader is changed during the game. The movements must be slow
• Mirrowing in the whole room: People start mirroing in pair, after a while they can mirror any person how is passing by. It can be done with music
• Emotional mirror in Greberish

• Taxi Drive
• Bench take over
• Genre Replay: List of genre
• Limited Genre Improv Game without three typical elements of the genre

This includes object work, less talking and more action. Due to the nature of those topics is difficult to keep the energy high.

• Circle-up
• Samurai
• Bunny, bunny
• 1, 2, 3, country, name, 6, change
• Superheros wars
• Walk around the room with tension
• Top model show

• Ball methamorphosis
• Exagerate a scene
• Free form with temporal connection
• Laid down scene
• Different places
• Boom Chicago

On letting the emotions and exaggerations free

• Pairs (Truck, old truck, two connecting ideas)
• what are you doing
• only one person walks
• open offer, platform building
• pen-friends
• always yes/no

• Storytelling with detail, emotion, action
• Freeze Story (in German)
• Goalie accepting an open line and a character
• Slideshow
• Backwards/Forwards
• Space jump
• Little voice
• Story solo with thrown words
• Whose line is it?

Learn to focus on body language and entonation rather than talking.

• Yes, we do it!
• Peculiar neighbor
• Cat and Mouse
• Counting until 21 lying down: Make groups of 5 or 6 people. Each group has to count until 21 as a whole. To count, one person has to lift his leg at once. If two people lift their legs at the same time, the group has to start from 1 again. It is easy for the group to cheat. A supervisor must be there
• Laid out a conversation to an action choreography
• Gentle manipulation - dressage with an activity or action to guide the second player to guess what the action is
• Pen-Friends
• One for all
• Silent Post: four monologues in a row with the other players outside the room. To see how facial expressions and emotions are changed
• Next sentence starts with the last letter
• 32 Players make a scene but they can't speak, just count until 32
• 2, 3 words per sentence
• Vorwärts/Rückwärts
• Reclamation

• Spice your relationships with intimacy and emotional connection on stage
• You aren't playing alone: Trust other's ideas and be present
• Be confident without words
• Presence, charisma and awareness of our own body language and voice
• Improv-Games 1 with focus on status games
• Improv-Games 2 with focus on places and actions

• Improv-Games 5 with Status games II
• Improv-Games 7 with focus on spontaneity
• Improv-Games 8 with focus on building trust

• Improv-Games 9 with focus on accepting II
• Improv-Games 10 - give and take of focus
• Improv-Games 11 with focus on listening
• Improv-Games 12 with focus on listening II
• Improv-Games 13 with focus on storytelling
• Improv-Games 14 with focus on singing
• Improv-Games 15 with focus on object work
• Improv-Games to try
• Improv-Games for intermediate players