by Gary Schwartz | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog
SPACE: Something about which we know very little; the stage area where a reality can be placed; space can be used to shape the realities we create; an area of no boundaries; without limits; the player uses space to bring reality into the phenomenal world; to make...
by Gary Schwartz | Jan 25, 2020 | Games, Improv Games, Improvisation for the Theater, Refining Awareness, Viola Spolin
Showing and Telling Story Telling and Story Theater This is a variation of Story Telling and Once Upon a Time, found in Improvisation for the Theater 3rd Edition (Pg. 283 & Pg. 290). It is also the roots of a unique theater style created by Paul Sills...
by Gary Schwartz | Jan 25, 2020 | Games, Orientation, Warm Up Games
Playing with the Unknown This game is a traditional game that asks the audience to communicate with a song, what action the one who goes out of the room must do. By playing “Hot and Cold” i.e., singing louder or softer as the guesser gets close to...
by Gary Schwartz | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog
The Group Games Model of Learning by Gary Schwartz Games are a natural group form. They provide personal, wholehearted, unselfconscious involvement in activities that allow us to feel free to absorb and integrate our experiences and add them to our growing knowledge...
by Gary Schwartz | Apr 11, 2019 | Games, Improv Games, Orientation, Refining Awareness, Sensory Awareness, Warm Up Games
Extended Sound Individuals send sound and get it to land on an object across the room. Watch for physical involvement with the sound production. More than asking to speak up, this exercise asks you to make the sound LAND. Words travel with impact. FOCUS On keeping the...
