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ImprovisationResources:

Acting: Onstage and Off by Robert Barton

Basic Drama Projects

+Terms:

Improvisation- an impromptu scene were the actors make up the dialogue and action

Dialogue – conversation among characters

Intuition- your knowledge that does not rely on reason or rational processes

Insight- your capacity for guessing accurately, an understanding, self-knowledge

+Terms

Ensemble- a group of actors working together to create an artistic whole rather than stressing individual players

Collaboration- working together, it requires trust, cooperation

Commedia -

+Rules Take chances: Participate without evaluating,

explore without judgment

Stay involved: until the session and accept side-coaching, without breaking your concentration

Play to solve the problem: not to find the clever line or cute ending

Respond in the moment: Remove preconceptions or plans

Accept as truth: whatever another actor brings into the scene is true. All new info is accepted

+JUMP IN! Helpful Hints Trust in the team is essential – so build the plot

together

Develop a character from a gesture, voice, expression, piece of clothing, et.

Develop an activity and spark a plot idea

Open dialogue by repeating a cliché, line from a poem, or a bit of slang

Cry or laugh to bring an extreme

Take chances & healthy risks

Up the stakes

+Videos 2014

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmz15dSzDS-5rUW15VCoYo14PwQvxVpAv

+Improv Now

Improv Everywhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1O1rv7vDsE Slo-Mo Home Depot http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=29NLOhBttxA

Who’s Line is it Anyway? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ar42_PDOs Ice skating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx7HdjzKLjQ

Second City

+Discussion

How is this improv?

What makes this entertaining? Inspiring? educational?

How could you use improv to enteratin? Inspire? Educate?

+Lets Work:

Groups: Senses Alive

Who’s Coming to the Party?

Freeze Frame