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- 17:00, 19 March 2020 Flow Loko (hist) [503 bytes] Longformshortpod (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Flow Loko''' is an improv opening developed by Flor Peralta and Francisco Antillón. It consists of a suggestion inspired monologue, which is interrupted by an...")
- 11:46, 16 March 2020 Steamrolling (hist) [577 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Steamrolling''' is when one improvisor does not listen to the Yes, and moves of their scene partner. This means pushing their own idea no matter what is said withou...")
- 15:20, 15 March 2020 Whit Shiller (hist) [491 bytes] Wshiller (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Whit Shiller is a performer and teacher with Fish Sticks Comedy. He hosts the Improv Comedy Connection podcast. ==Teams== Whit is one of the founding members of Fis...")
- 15:18, 15 March 2020 Whit shiller (hist) [0 bytes] Wshiller (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Whit Shiller is a performer and teacher with Fish Sticks Comedy. He hosts the Improv Comedy Connection podcast. ==Teams== Whit is one of the founding members of Fis...")
- 00:02, 14 March 2020 Chaff (hist) [439 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Chaff''' is superfluous information in an opening that's not tied to a premise or half idea. Chaff is similar to a one-word suggestion, except generated by the...")
- 23:53, 13 March 2020 Exploring (hist) [729 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Exploring''' in improv means to make moves that help to find the logic, philosophy or rationale behind an absurd character. The voice of reason may attempt to...")
- 23:47, 13 March 2020 Sideline (hist) [191 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''sideline''' is when performers stand along the sides of a stage while not engaged physically in the scene. Performers enter a scene from a backline or sideline. Cate...")
- 23:47, 13 March 2020 Backline (hist) [190 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''backline''' is when performers stand along the back of a stage while not engaged physically in the scene. Performers enter a scene from a backline or sideline. Categ...")
- 23:45, 13 March 2020 Cut-to (hist) [323 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''cut-to''' is an improv technique allowing a jump in time and location. A performer from the backline says "cut-to" and describes a brief premise or description for t...")
- 23:42, 13 March 2020 Talking heads (hist) [154 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''talking heads'''scene is a scene where characters only stand and talk. Often characters only talk about the past or future. Category: Concepts")
- 23:20, 13 March 2020 Transaction scene (hist) [599 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''transaction scene''' is a type of scene that can be challenging especially for new improvisers. An attempt to emulate real-life makes a transaction scene brief. Attempt...")
- 23:15, 13 March 2020 Teaching scene (hist) [684 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''teaching scene''' or '''puppet master scene''' is a scene where one character proceeds to teach, give commands, and give instructions. These are difficult as the scen...")
- 23:08, 13 March 2020 Intro (hist) [225 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''intro''' is the introduction of the show to the audience, before a set or show. An intro tells the audience what they are about to see and ideally helps a brand new aud...")
- 23:06, 13 March 2020 Showmanship (hist) [742 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Showmanship''' or '''stagecraft''' is any tool that helps demonstrate theatrical skill and professionalism in front of an audience. For many teams, poor showmanship might...")
- 22:58, 13 March 2020 Support move (hist) [658 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Support moves''' or ''support work''' are any moves by the backline that help to support a scene. This includes walk-ons, tag-outs, edit|spit sc...")
- 16:02, 13 March 2020 World game (hist) [539 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A world game is when the game of the scene seems to be embodied in the elements and structure of the greater or physical world. This implied that the unusual point of...")
- 15:59, 13 March 2020 Endowment (hist) [144 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Endowment''' or '''gifting''' means to name your scene partner's physical actions, strong feelings or other qualities. Category:Concept")
- 11:39, 13 March 2020 Instant Songwriting (hist) [178 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Instant Songwriting: Musical Improv from Dunce to Diva''' is a book about musical improv by Nancy Howland Walker Category:Musical Improv")
- 11:31, 13 March 2020 Pirate Robot Ninja (hist) [793 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Pirate Robot Ninja: An Improv Fable''' is a book about improv by Billy Merritt Category:Improv Books")
- 11:28, 13 March 2020 Improvising Now (hist) [219 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Improvising Now: A Practical Guide to Modern Improv''' is an Category: Improv Book by Rob Norman Category: Improv Books")
- 10:54, 13 March 2020 Bossypants (hist) [908 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Bossypants''' is an autobiographical comedy book by Chicago improvisor and former Saturday Night Live head writer Tina Fey Category:Improv Books")
- 10:47, 13 March 2020 The Complete Improviser (hist) [133 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Complete Improviser''' is an improv book by Bill Arnett improv book")
- 10:44, 13 March 2020 How To Be The Greatest Improviser On Earth (hist) [309 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''How To Be The Greatest Improviser On Earth''' is an improv book by Will Hines <blockquote>“The hard truth is often simply: learn to act like...")
- 14:52, 12 March 2020 World dash (hist) [502 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''world dash''' explores another part of the same universe that was set up in the first scene. This is similar to a time dash that doesn’t follow a character. For exam...")
- 13:50, 12 March 2020 Time dash (hist) [333 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''time dash''' is when a scene returns to the same characters or events at a different point in time than the one in which they were introduced. For example, a second...")
- 11:23, 12 March 2020 Haroldfest (hist) [195 bytes] Longformshortpod (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Haroldfest''' is Toronto's only long form improv festival, and is hosted by the canadian long form collective The Assembly.")
- 11:11, 12 March 2020 The Assembly (hist) [730 bytes] Longformshortpod (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Assembly''' is a Toronto based canadian long form improv collective made up of a dozen teams. == History == The Assembly started in the basement of a Shoppers drug ma...")
- 11:07, 12 March 2020 Blue (hist) [110 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Going blue''' means to explore off color language, bad words, and vulgar situations")
- 11:04, 12 March 2020 Tobogán (hist) [242 bytes] Longformshortpod (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Tobogán''' is the founding house team of The Assembly Mexico, based on Mexico City. == Current Line up == Valeria Bazúa Sara De Lille Diana Pérez Adrián Caballero...")
- 11:02, 12 March 2020 Capitán Gato (hist) [240 bytes] Longformshortpod (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Capitán Gato''' is a house team from The Assembly Mexico, based on Mexico City. == Current Line up == * Fernanda Aragón * Gloria Peña * Viajera (Karen Acosta) * ...")
- 11:02, 12 March 2020 Advancing (hist) [166 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Advancing''' process of moving a scene forward through a next hit of the game, discovery of character, a rest, or otherwise moving through ideas within the scenes.")
- 10:57, 12 March 2020 Meta (hist) [291 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Meta''' improv is a move that or show that acknowledges this is an improv scene, an audience watching the show, that we are performers, or otherwise recognizes the circumst...")
- 09:46, 12 March 2020 Midnight Society (hist) [1,060 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Midnight Society''' is an opening developed by Kate Riley based on the Nickelodeon show ''Are you afraid of the dark''' * Get a suggestion of anything at...")
- 09:43, 12 March 2020 Monologue (hist) [260 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''monologue''' is when a single improvisor speaks at length either as their real self with true details or as a character")
- 09:39, 12 March 2020 Classic pairs (hist) [576 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Classic pairs is an exercise to work one of those basic improv muscles of defining who each character is in a scene. Your partner labels himself and labels you...")
- 09:06, 12 March 2020 Scene (hist) [1,467 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A scene is the place where a series of fictional events occur or occurred on stage. <blockquote>"A scene is a sequence where a character or characters engage in some sor...")
- 08:44, 12 March 2020 Object work (hist) [1,100 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In improv, '''object work''' refers to miming physically non-existent invisible items within in the invisible environment in a scene. Most improv is performed without any ph...")
- 08:19, 12 March 2020 Scene work (hist) [260 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Scene work''' refers to the stagecraft of starting improv scenes, creating characters, using real-life space work on stage, edits and wipes, tilts, and the way basic story...")
- 00:16, 12 March 2020 Behavior (hist) [134 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Behavior''' describes the way a character physically shows their ideas, philosophy, or unusual beliefs.")
- 00:13, 12 March 2020 Absurd character (hist) [355 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An absurd character has an unusual point of view. They may embody a nonsensical philosophy, or otherwise have strange behavior. A voice of reason character may be...")
- 00:08, 12 March 2020 Walk-on (hist) [365 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''walk-on''' means to enter a scene in that is in progress as another character, offering a move that contributes to the progression of the scene at play. T A '''walk-off'...")
- 23:58, 11 March 2020 Top of intelligence (hist) [349 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Playing at the '''Top of Your Intelligence''' describes the commitment by improvisors to playing scenes as real as possible. Performers commit to grounding your character in...")
- 23:56, 11 March 2020 Group mind (hist) [139 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''group mind''' describes how a team incorporates multiple, individual voices into a single voice. Getting an ensemble on the same page.")
- 23:54, 11 March 2020 Half-idea (hist) [275 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''half-idea''' is a partially formed concept presented by an improviser. The improvisor may not be able to fully explain why this part of the monologue or opening...")
- 23:52, 11 March 2020 Agreement (hist) [1,136 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Agreement''' refers to two performers with the intent of the other improviser, even if their character doesn't match the intent of their scene partner's character.")
- 23:50, 11 March 2020 Oprganic improv (hist) [161 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Organic improv''' is a style of longform in which characters live in a normal world. An unusual detail or idea may emerge naturally and then it is explored")
- 23:48, 11 March 2020 Initiation (hist) [190 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''initiation''' is a first line of a scene that provides inspiration, context, or direction for an improvisor, the audience, and their scene partner")
- 23:47, 11 March 2020 Premise (hist) [573 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Premise''' is an idea or part of idea that can be paired with an unusual thing along with characters, activity, and location in an initiation line. When a premise is c...")
- 23:43, 11 March 2020 Duo (hist) [49 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A duo is an improv team with only two people.")
- 23:33, 11 March 2020 Matching (hist) [521 bytes] Sketchee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Matching''', '''mirroring''', or '''peas in a pod''' describes the process of creating characters who are very similar or unusual in similar ways. With matching scenes, un...")
