Exercises are just what they describe. These are improv structures that help tone the improv brain and the creative juices to improve one’s improv on stage. Many exercises are quite entertaining to watch, but entertaining an audience is not their main goal. One should always keep in mind which improv rules are being emphasised by the exercise and learning trumps entertainment. To do these without notes or side coaching kinda defeats their purpose.
- Advance and Expand
- Airplane
- Aliens
- Amoeba
- Animal Characters
- Animals
- Ask For Practice
- Back Dancing
- Banana Banana
- Become
- Big Blob
- Build A Story
- Capturing the Whatsit
- Car
- Categories-Exercise
- Character Circle
- Clay
- Coming Home
- Conducted Story
- Corridors
- Disc
- Double Opener
- Elevator
- Emotional Transfer
- Entrances and Exercises
- Environment Build
- Environment Scene
- Environment Shift
- Fingertips
- Freeze Tag-Exercise
- Gibberish
- Gibberish-Hello
- Gibberish-Switch
- Hello
- Help Desk
- Hitch Hiker
- Invocation
- Jump
- Leading
- Leaving the Couch
- Leslie’s Bakery
- Line Gags
- Machines
- Meanwhile
- Mirrors
- Monarch
- Object
- Once Upon A Because
- Open Scene-Exercise
- Park Bench
- Passages
- Photograph
- Rope
- Silent Scene
- So I’ll
- Speak In One Voice
- Status Transfer-Exercise
- Sticks
- Touch It
- Trifecta-Narrative
- Trifecta-Setting
- Trifecta-Ties
- What Happens Next?
- Word At A Time
- Yes And