D-O-W-N and that's the way we get down! *clap clap*

This week gave me my best improv class yet!

We started off with "That's the way we get down", a chanting game that involves everyone dancing. I say "Hey Jack!" he says "Hey what?" "Hey Jack!" "Hey what" "Show us how you get down!" "No way!" "Show us how you get down?" "Ok" and then Jack would dance. Jack then goes up to a new person and repeats the process. I did some party rock shuffle and charleston, good times. The game is mostly for an energy booster and team building.

We did a little zip zap zop beep, and added "Bunny", where you have to put two fingers up like ears and chant "Bunny bunny bunny bunny" until you pass the bunny, a zip, or a beep.

Jumping right into scene work, we practiced two-line scenes. One person set up the who and the where, and the other person countered with a what. Simple, fact-establishing exercise. That evolved into longer scenes, working on avoiding questions and establishing a relationship between two characters.

We moved on to "Countdown", a game where all 6 people from both teams have to get on stage in 2 minutes. Then, the scene must be performed in 1 minute, 30 seconds, and 15 seconds respectively.  My scene was the most fun. I was a beach goer, and two guys came up and offered me beer, I declined, as I was 15, and my boyfriend came up to defend me. I pulled him out of a fight and we walked romantically along the beach. Two more people still needed to come into the scene, so I decided to panic and realize that my parents had shown up at the beach. My 'mom' disapproved of my relationship and my 'dad' called me a slut for wearing a two piece. If that scenario wasn't funny enough, we had to speed it up. By the time we got to 15 seconds, the scene ended on "Slut!" and the entire class was doubled over laughing.

We got together and made a circle, going around and telling the person to our right what we like about their comedy. Then, we ran in a circle together and chanted "we're the best!" Someone decided to start chanting "slut!" and out teacher died laughing.

We ended class with Free-for-all-Freeze, where two people start a scene and one person calls "freeze!" and trades places with one of the performers. The scene starts again with an entirely different scenario based on the pre-freeze positions of the players.

Our class is really starting to feel like a team. Everyone is ridiculously supportive and enthusiastic. I could not have asked for a better group of people to be silly with!

Until next time,
Over and out!
-D