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IMPROV AND TACOS
An out-of-context quote. I thought you were born with a certain amount of artistic talent or ability. This talent couldn’t increase or decrease, it was just inherent. . you cannot be afraid to be “bad”. You just have to realize your work isn’t finished yet and you need more practice.MICK NAPIER
My local library had a copy of Mick Napier's Improvise. I like it. A lot. It's got tons of information for a slim 130-page book, but more importantly (to me), I like the tone. (The blurb describes it as "irreverent.") I'm especially digging the chapter on "Exercises to PRE-SHOW RITUALS (2) I sometimes do as I'm walking to the theater to improvise. It brings to light fun and absurd thoughts: different tools to associate with while improvising, as opposed to the limited range of associations we usually have. -Mick Napier, founder of the Annoyance Theater (Right now, my own pre-practice/pre-show ritual is:MICK NAPIER
Continued from the past few days, #4 in a series of 5, spreading the wisdom of Mick Napier's Improvise. The book is much more complete than these stupid summaries I'm writing, and plus there are like another 120 pages of improv gold that I'm not even mentioning; IMICK NAPIER
Continued from the past few days, last in a series of five. Find an actual copy of Mick Napier's Improvise, it's way awesomer than my summaries. Miscellaneous Bonus Exercises (18) Write an Improvised Scene Write a two-person scene like this: Set a timer for 5 minutes. Never EVER stop typing. Your fingers will getMICK NAPIER
Continued from yesterday, #2 in a series of 5— paraphrased exercises you can do at home, from Mick Napier's Improvise. Again, buy the book, it's better than my lame-ass summaries. Exercises for unthinking character creation (4) Solo Character Switches Begin a character monologue. After 30 seconds, without pausing, switch the character to something completely different.MICK NAPIER
Continued from yesterday, #3 in a series of 5. Again, I'm paraphrasing a chapter of Mick Napier's Improvise, but he says everything wayyyyyyy better than I do, and you should buy the book. Exercises for physical body and space (8) Environment Stand in the middle of a room. Without thinking, reach out in the air MAGNET | IMPROV AND TACOS This is a conversation I’ve been having with Magnet-practice-group-type people lately: Me: I can’t do Mondays, I’m taking that Level 1 class over at the PIT. Them: Oh yeah, how is that? Me: I’ve only had three classes, I dunno. Them: Oh, okay. Me: And I don’t know if I’d just be comparing instructors’ personal philosophies or whole philosophies of the schools. SWIM! SWIM FOR ME! SWIM NOW! This past Saturday, I got into a swimming pool for the first time in, I dunno, 15 years. As I've mentioned, I'm a runner, and runners say swimming is great for cross-training and injury prevention. I've been ambivalent about the idea. I took lessons when I was little, but I haven't had a reason to JANUARY | 2014 | IMPROV AND TACOS Look around and find an object. Say the name of the object out loud, and immediately start talking about the object. Describe it, or (preferably) talk about some experience it inspires. After ~10 seconds, without pausing, interrupt yourself with the name of a new object, and launch into another 10-second description.IMPROV AND TACOS
An out-of-context quote. I thought you were born with a certain amount of artistic talent or ability. This talent couldn’t increase or decrease, it was just inherent. . you cannot be afraid to be “bad”. You just have to realize your work isn’t finished yet and you need more practice.MICK NAPIER
My local library had a copy of Mick Napier's Improvise. I like it. A lot. It's got tons of information for a slim 130-page book, but more importantly (to me), I like the tone. (The blurb describes it as "irreverent.") I'm especially digging the chapter on "Exercises to PRE-SHOW RITUALS (2) I sometimes do as I'm walking to the theater to improvise. It brings to light fun and absurd thoughts: different tools to associate with while improvising, as opposed to the limited range of associations we usually have. -Mick Napier, founder of the Annoyance Theater (Right now, my own pre-practice/pre-show ritual is:MICK NAPIER
Continued from the past few days, #4 in a series of 5, spreading the wisdom of Mick Napier's Improvise. The book is much more complete than these stupid summaries I'm writing, and plus there are like another 120 pages of improv gold that I'm not even mentioning; IMICK NAPIER
Continued from the past few days, last in a series of five. Find an actual copy of Mick Napier's Improvise, it's way awesomer than my summaries. Miscellaneous Bonus Exercises (18) Write an Improvised Scene Write a two-person scene like this: Set a timer for 5 minutes. Never EVER stop typing. Your fingers will getMICK NAPIER
Continued from yesterday, #2 in a series of 5— paraphrased exercises you can do at home, from Mick Napier's Improvise. Again, buy the book, it's better than my lame-ass summaries. Exercises for unthinking character creation (4) Solo Character Switches Begin a character monologue. After 30 seconds, without pausing, switch the character to something completely different.MICK NAPIER
Continued from yesterday, #3 in a series of 5. Again, I'm paraphrasing a chapter of Mick Napier's Improvise, but he says everything wayyyyyyy better than I do, and you should buy the book. Exercises for physical body and space (8) Environment Stand in the middle of a room. Without thinking, reach out in the air MAGNET | IMPROV AND TACOS This is a conversation I’ve been having with Magnet-practice-group-type people lately: Me: I can’t do Mondays, I’m taking that Level 1 class over at the PIT. Them: Oh yeah, how is that? Me: I’ve only had three classes, I dunno. Them: Oh, okay. Me: And I don’t know if I’d just be comparing instructors’ personal philosophies or whole philosophies of the schools. SWIM! SWIM FOR ME! SWIM NOW! This past Saturday, I got into a swimming pool for the first time in, I dunno, 15 years. As I've mentioned, I'm a runner, and runners say swimming is great for cross-training and injury prevention. I've been ambivalent about the idea. I took lessons when I was little, but I haven't had a reason to JANUARY | 2014 | IMPROV AND TACOS Look around and find an object. Say the name of the object out loud, and immediately start talking about the object. Describe it, or (preferably) talk about some experience it inspires. After ~10 seconds, without pausing, interrupt yourself with the name of a new object, and launch into another 10-second description. ABOUT | IMPROV AND TACOS I am a grown-up who works in New York. I refuse to seek treatment for my various undiagnosed mood and personality disorders. I believe that improv will miraculously cure my lifelong neuroses. I don't actually believe that, but I am hopeful that it will point me in a good direction. This blog is mostly PODCASTS | IMPROV AND TACOS Posts about podcasts written by Robin. High on jet lag after a successful family reunion on the other side of the country, during which time I established myself as “one of the funny cousins” and remembered how good it feels to have people laugh at your jokes, I went to my first Del Close Marathon (#DCM16) on Friday night. After watching 7 groups of high quality improv, I’m starting to WOMEN | IMPROV AND TACOS While my buddies and I were waiting for the doors to open for a “women’s improv event,” we started talking women and comedy. My stance was along the lines of “seriously? this is the 21st century, of COURSE women are as hilarious as men, and have a strong presence in comedy, why is this even an issue, didn’t we get past it decadesago, sheesh.”
AN IMPROV/ VIDEO GAME METAPHOR WITH ANIMATED GIFS I have feels so I made pics to splain: ----- When I do good scenes, it's like When I do bad scenes, it's like When I do enough bad scenes in a row, I don't die, but my health is so compromised that it is impossible score a win. I can't focus. Bright MAGNET | IMPROV AND TACOS This is a conversation I’ve been having with Magnet-practice-group-type people lately: Me: I can’t do Mondays, I’m taking that Level 1 class over at the PIT. Them: Oh yeah, how is that? Me: I’ve only had three classes, I dunno. Them: Oh, okay. Me: And I don’t know if I’d just be comparing instructors’ personal philosophies or whole philosophies of the schools. COMING OUT | IMPROV AND TACOS A few weeks ago, as I was leaving a social gathering, my good friend since middle school (high school besties!) took me aside and shyly/excitedly mentioned that she was taking group music lessons, and she somehow ended up being the singer, and the group was performing in a bar in our hometown in a couple weeks, and, JANUARY | 2014 | IMPROV AND TACOS Look around and find an object. Say the name of the object out loud, and immediately start talking about the object. Describe it, or (preferably) talk about some experience it inspires. After ~10 seconds, without pausing, interrupt yourself with the name of a new object, and launch into another 10-second description. FIXING A DOWNHILL SCENE Something I've been running into for a while— you're doing a scene, and you realize it's going down a problematic path. Maybe it's a transactional scene, or a teaching scene, or an attacking/fight scene, or a plot-heavy scene, or you're talking about the thing and not about each other, or whatever. But you notice that the scene SPECIAL | IMPROV AND TACOS Special. Mike Birbiglia describes love in Sleepwalk with Me: Deep down, our whole lives, no matter how low our self-esteem gets, we think, ‘I have a special skill that no one knows about and if they knew they’d be amazed.’. And then eventually we meet someone who says, “You have a secret special skill.”. And you’re like, “Iknow!
FINDING PASSION
High on jet lag after a successful family reunion on the other side of the country, during which time I established myself as “one of the funny cousins” and remembered how good it feels to have people laugh at your jokes, I went to my first Del Close Marathon (#DCM16) on Friday night. After watching 7 groups of high quality improv, I’m starting to remember why I want to do this.IMPROV AND TACOS
An out-of-context quote. I thought you were born with a certain amount of artistic talent or ability. This talent couldn’t increase or decrease, it was just inherent. . you cannot be afraid to be “bad”. You just have to realize your work isn’t finished yet and you need more practice.MICK NAPIER
My local library had a copy of Mick Napier's Improvise. I like it. A lot. It's got tons of information for a slim 130-page book, but more importantly (to me), I like the tone. (The blurb describes it as "irreverent.") I'm especially digging the chapter on "Exercises to PRE-SHOW RITUALS (2) I sometimes do as I'm walking to the theater to improvise. It brings to light fun and absurd thoughts: different tools to associate with while improvising, as opposed to the limited range of associations we usually have. -Mick Napier, founder of the Annoyance Theater (Right now, my own pre-practice/pre-show ritual is:MICK NAPIER
Continued from the past few days, #4 in a series of 5, spreading the wisdom of Mick Napier's Improvise. The book is much more complete than these stupid summaries I'm writing, and plus there are like another 120 pages of improv gold that I'm not even mentioning; IMICK NAPIER
Continued from the past few days, last in a series of five. Find an actual copy of Mick Napier's Improvise, it's way awesomer than my summaries. Miscellaneous Bonus Exercises (18) Write an Improvised Scene Write a two-person scene like this: Set a timer for 5 minutes. Never EVER stop typing. Your fingers will get MAGNET | IMPROV AND TACOS This is a conversation I’ve been having with Magnet-practice-group-type people lately: Me: I can’t do Mondays, I’m taking that Level 1 class over at the PIT. Them: Oh yeah, how is that? Me: I’ve only had three classes, I dunno. Them: Oh, okay. Me: And I don’t know if I’d just be comparing instructors’ personal philosophies or whole philosophies of the schools.COMING BACK
Posts about coming back written by Robin. I feel sticky. I’m standing outside a closed green door in a hot windowless hallway in central Philadelphia, listening to voices on the other side of the door go through a three-line scene exercise, and skimming old classnotes on my phone.
MONOSCENE | IMPROV AND TACOS Posts about monoscene written by Robin. Nuggets: Don’t try to solve the problem. When someone says “this is my problem,” you should respond “shit, yeah, that sure is a problem,” instead of “okay, well, if you do THIS, you can fix it, it’s not so bad.”; When you get a location, the first thing you’ll think is to be interacting with it as a visitor/patron/customer. MESSING UP | IMPROV AND TACOS An observation about one of the many improv things I struggle with— If you come at me with an accusation, I will always, always fight. I mean, I’ll accept the reality of the situation, that I did the thing you’re accusing me of, but I’ll be damned if you’re gonna tell me that’s WRONG. I had a TOTALLY valid reason for crashing that commercial jet, and fuck you for saying otherwise. TWITTER +/- OTHER PEOPLE I recently joined Twitter.Details
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