February 22nd, 2012

Today in class we continued to work on our improvization skills. We did this by first (imaginarily) compressing the air in front of us into a sort of ball of energy. The purpose of this was to practice body language when doing improvs. Next, we continued to work on improv by next picking up a more realistic, but still imaginary ball. We were to bounce it around and we played "catch" with a partner with our imaginary balls. Then we played imaginary volleyball. The purpose of these were to improve our group coordination on improv. I think we did pretty well considering there were 12 if us playing with a fake ball. We sort of just, again, 'got in the zone' and were able to communicate rather well. The few times we did sort of get out of sync, we quickly got it fixed. Then, at the end we did our own individual imoriv skits where we just did a bunch of things. By that I mean  we each went up on "stage" and acted out certain scenarios with few or no props. We all did pretty well, I think. It was to get us more comfortable with being on stage, being the focus of everyones attention and to see how realistic you could make it. For example, if you put something down and if you picked it up from the same place. We used skills we were slowly building up for the past few classes/days/weeks.