Thursday, May 27, 2010

Arms! (impro game)

Moving bodies

About this activity: The students work in pairs and while A provides the text and lines of dialogue, B has to coordinate his/her movements as if controlling a human-sized puppet... and while doing this they act out short impro scenes!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

What comes next?

About this activity: Our students like this impro game a lot! A person is on stage and asks the audience "What comes next?" They tell him what to do (e.g. that the phone rings and that he picks it up) and by asking "What comes next?" over and over an ongoing story is told. It usually doesn't take too long until a second or third person enters the stage (for example the boyfriend or a doctor)... Our students tend to be very creative and the stories they invent are often unforgettable!

Slow motion sword fights!!!

About this activity: With swords made of newspaper the students had to improvise a short sword fight in slow motion and learned that there are lots of different ways to die on stage...