SCIENCE and EDUCATION under threat Improvisation’s part in the War being waged Dr. Kate Lapane, PhD In February 2020, Dr. Lapane attended one of my classes while I was visiting Rhode Island, USA. The course was ‘Teaching teachers to teach with Improvisation.’ I have little doubt that Dr. Lapane probably didn’t need Read more…
IMPROVISE WHAT YOU EAT U R What U EAT It may surprise you that the food you ingest an hour before the show can make you calmer, quicker, crazier or smarter. Eating specific food alters attitudes. If you know what mood you need to adjust, just eat your way to Read more…
SCORED!!!! In the world of “competitive improvisation” there’s a simple need for scoreboards. “BORING!!“ …you might say. And you would be right. But come on! There are a lot of tedious details in the work we do on stage to make a show happen. It isn’t all show biz and Read more…
TIPS FOR A NEW REALITY PART 2- POV and Perspective MOST of these ideas have been used by cinematographers, Directors, and Filmmakers for years. The same discoveries and re-discoveries are being made by improvisers all over the world to enhance their online work. Zoom, Twitch, OBS, and other forums have Read more…
TIPS FOR A NEW REALITY PART 1- BASIC TECH ONLINE It’s been fascinating to watch improvisers adapting and evolving in the age of Corona. The technical side of our work has frustrated many of us but it doesn’t have to. When tech fails in class or during a show, it will Read more…
VIRUS TAG One of my favourite “warm-up” games. It might teach you everything there is about improvisation By Shawn Kinley Virus Tag is one of my top three favourite warm-up games. This game comes from childhood in many cultures but I picked it up in Germany many years ago. I Read more…
ISABELLA (originally written for IMPRO WORLD TOUR blog) Women in improvisation (and often in life) become the shadows of the men they stand on stage with. Many groups aspire to draw women into their company only to pigeon-hole them into the roles of mothers, daughters, sexual images and princesses. It’s Read more…
WHAT’S THE FORMAT!?!? Here are some thoughts written for a question asked by the International Theatresports Institute, December 2019. What is your process for creating new performance formats? How do you develop the initial idea, and how to you work on it to make it stage worthy? One of the Read more…
Currently performing and exploring ideas in Calgary, Canada. Part of the OVERLAP Improvisation collective. Natalie Marshall Actor, Student, Person What I realized that blew my mind while workshopping Overlap was the intense vulnerability of improvising. That more often then not, when you make a decision Read more…
I always thought improv was just Acting 2.0. Theatre without a script. Which I guess is still partly true. I’ve learned improv is more about ~being~ than anything else. Not performing, or pretending to be a daughter/wife/ astronaut/ house plant. Fully existing onstage, entirely vulnerable and authentic. It has been Read more…
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