Having students to participate in an innovative, interactive curriculum, students develop the necessary skills of problem solving, cooperation, and leadership.
Theater improvisation teach:
Energy
Icebreakers
Warm up
Warm up
This game and exercises is meant to get everybody in a cheery mood, establish trust between the players, and sharpen concentration.
You’d use these game at the start of a rehearsal, or as part of the preparation for a show.
10 Fingers
Description
Great game for getting to know each other in a new group. All players in a circle, holding all 10 fingers up in the air. Start asking personal questions that take yes-no answers, drops a finger. Last person with a finger left wins.
Good questions are things like "I have a cat", "I have never stolen anything" and so on.
Icebreakers
These exercises are intended to get everybody acquainted and to learn each other’s names. Use these early on in a workshop, These games and exercises can be used for improve training, but are useful in any drama and theater education environment, or indeed in any environment in which ice needs broken.
Follow the Leader
Description
All but one in a circle, one player in the middle. The middle player closes her eyes, and the rest of the group quietly chooses a leader.
Middle player opens her eyes and tries to find the leader. The whole group follows the leader, in everything he does. As soon as the middle player finds out who the leader was the game is over.
This only works if movements are clear, not too fast, and if the group `follows the leader` as fast and as precisely as possible.
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