Posts Tagged ‘IMPROVISATION’
Improv Tip #140 – Why You Must Not Be Precious About Improv (w/ David Escobedo) (2020)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper David Escobedo offers a tip about loosening your grip on “your improv” and all the great benefits that brings. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your acting classes, or expressing…
Read MoreYes And…Then What? (w/ Elizabeth Mihelich) (2020)
Improvisers are known for making things up on the spot, but the art form itself is so transient. Even after the best shows, the audience and performers are left with only memories and that “you had to be there feeling.” Many improvisers, however, have taken the skills and sensibilities they learned and honed in improv…
Read MoreYes And… Then What? (w/ Christa Nannos) (2020)
Improvisers are known for making things up on the spot, but the art form itself is so transient. Even after the best shows, the audience and performers are left with only memories and that “you had to be there feeling.” Many improvisers, however, have taken the skills and sensibilities they learned and honed in improv…
Read MoreImprov Tip #139 – Know What's Happening (w/ Kevin Reome) (2020)
improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper Kevin Reome offers a tip about knowing what’s going on in the scene (even when you don’t). Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your acting classes, or expressing yourself with…
Read MoreImprov Tip #138 – Silence (w/ Kat Kenny) (2020)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, veteran teacher and improviser Paul Vaillancourt brings you guest tipper Kat Kenny talking about the use of silence in improv. She pulls together a bunch of ideas and really shows many facets of this great, but under-used,…
Read MoreImprov Tip #137 – Online Improv (w/ Amey Goerlich) (2020)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, veteran teacher and improviser Paul Vaillancourt brings you guest tipper Amey Goerlich to talk about improv online – a topic becoming more and more important. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your…
Read MoreImprov Blog
[ad_1] We have an art form whose tenets boast comfort with failure. Are any of us comfortable with this failure? The history of pure improvisation on TV and film is almost non-existent. We have game shows and panel shows with producers live-directing the cast and much written stand-up material stuffed in where possible. Anything good…
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[ad_1] I’ve been blogging about improvisation for a long time now. This blog is not about improvisation. I have anxiety and depression. I don’t experience depression all the time, but the more I understand anxiety, the more I understand that I’ve had it for pretty much all of my life. I’ve read a lot about anxiety and depression…
Read MoreCounterfactual Thinking in Improv
[ad_1] I’m taking a Science of Well-Being course online with Yale. Last night I did a fabulous show with The Maydays at IMPRO Amsterdam. We got a standing ovation and were called back on stage to bow again. I had loads of compliments in the bar and yet, all I wanted to do was go…
Read MoreImprov Tips #136 – Set Improv Games For The Harold BONUS – The Invocation (2019)
Set Improv Games For The Harold – The Invocation (Bonus Episode) The Harold is considered by many to be the mother of all long form improv but teaching and learning the Harold can be tricky at times. We, as improvisers, spend most of our time (as we should) on the scenes that make up the…
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