I find this game hard! Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. Improv courses, shows and improv comedy club in London, UK. www.hooplaimpro.com A couple of times this season people have said to me that they find a game hard. My first impulse was to try to make it less hard for them, or give[…]
A new character exercise Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. Improv courses, shows and improv comedy club in London, UK. www.hooplaimpro.com We conjured up this new character exercise at last weekend’s character workshop at Hoopla. A couple of the improvisers were asking about how to go beyond their default characters. They felt they[…]
Hoopla Big Christmas Thanks! Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. Improv courses, shows and improv comedy club in London, UK. www.hooplaimpro.com Hi everyone. This is my big Christmas thank you blog! I’ve been trying to write it all week and have procrastinated and procrastinated and now it is midnight on Christmas Eve and[…]
Thank you! Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. Improv courses, shows and improv comedy club in London, UK. www.hooplaimpro.com Wow that was quite a weekend!!! Many thanks to everyone involved in watching, working, volunteering, performing, watching, dancing, glow stick waving and more! The weekend was made up of a team of 100s of[…]
How to practice improv Today’s shortish blog from an improviser: “I’d LOVE to read about improv exercises/games/warm ups you can do on your own, without a partner or a team…” My favourite one to do is from Meisner Technique training. The next time someone says to you “how are you?” in real life, no matter[…]
A friend of mine is suffering anxiety about not being quick or funny enough when improvising. This can be a vicious cycle for performers that gets worse and worse, until they end up doing less and less shows or quitting improv altogether. What doesn’t help in this situation is “trying”. Trying to be quick or[…]
Why is the Hoopla Improv Marathon the same week as Slapdash Improv Festival? Someone just asked, as they were concerned we had deliberately put it on at the same time as an act of competition which goes against the lovely relationship Hoopla and The Nursery have. I was originally just going to chat to them[…]
Some quick helpful tips on hosting an improv night. Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. Improv courses, shows and improv comedy club in London, UK. www.hooplaimpro.com Someone just asked me about hosting an improv night and if I had any tips, I thought the following might be helpful Being yourself, but what self?[…]
There are more Hoopla teachers than ever performing at Edinburgh this summer in a variety of AMAZING shows! We wish them a healthy happy sunny Edinburgh! If you’d like to check them out here are all the links to their shows: Max Dickins: The Committee and The Man on the Moor. Katy Schutte: Schutte the[…]
Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. Courses, shows and improv theatre in London, UK. Hoopla’s Beginners Improv Courses start every month in London: Beginners Improv Courses. If you’ve done a Beginners Course our best next step is our Performance Improv Course: Performance Improv Course. Twitter: @HooplaImpro Facebook: /HooplaImpro Website: www.HooplaImpro.com Here’s a super[…]
How to give feedback when teaching improv. Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. This is about how I give feedback when teaching improv. I’m not saying it’s the right way, just my preferred way at Hoopla. Much of this is weirdly influenced by swimming coaching. I learnt to swim front crawl properly a[…]
I want to let go. Blog by Steve Roe, Director of Hoopla Impro. Courses, shows and improv theatre in London, UK. Twitter: @HooplaImpro Facebook: /HooplaImpro Website: www.HooplaImpro.comI like spontaneous improv. I value spontaneity in improv above everything else. I don’t care so much about the structure of a show, or format, or how clean or messy it is.[…]