Enhance your leadership skills with the power of improv… ‘Whose Line is it Anyway?’ hit our screens in September 1988, making the likes of Paul Merton, Tony Slattery and Josie Lawrence household names in the process. This remains most people’s first association with the word ‘improvisation.’ Thousands of people take ‘improv’ classes here at Hoopla[…]
How to act like an improviser to own the room… A lot of people find meetings, especially with new people, awkward and anxiety inducing. There are many different reasons for this, of course. The one Hoopla Business hears most often, from clients we work with, is that the pressure gets to them. The meeting might[…]
Who’d have thought, way back in January, that, ‘Karen, you’re on mute’ would be one of the phrases of the year? And, oh how we laughed at that poor Professor when his kids came dancing into his office when he was live on TV. Now we’re all trying to keep the show on the road[…]
Every month we give discounted courses to students and people who are unemployed or on low income. How to apply for a scholarship place Have a look at the full range of our improv classes and once you’ve found one you would like to do please contact us at [email protected] with: Your name. What course[…]
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An improvised poetry slam. Two teams, either side of the stage, given team names by the audience. On each round the audience give them a theme, word or title and one player from each steps forwards and improvises a poem from that suggestion. Playing Tips Variety. Try different styles of poems from who has been[…]
Scene starts with three improvisers playing noticeably different characters from each other. When the host says “switch” they switch places and take over each others characters and carry on the scene. Switch is said repeatedly. Playing Tips Make the characters different from each other at the start: physical, emotional, vocal or status differences work well.[…]
A helpful exercise for learning Game of the Scene, especially about delaying the funny to build a believable platform and also for spotting the first unusual thing. Two people on stage. They are given a situation. They improvise that situation as normally and realistically as possible, without any attempt to funny. When something unusual/funny/ridiculous happens[…]
A good game to help group mind and support. Everyone stood in a circle. Eyes closed. One person stars making any sound of an instrument or any musical sound with their voice. Could be a drum, a piano, a violin, la la la. Everyone joins in and backs them up by doing the same sound.[…]
A fun way to end a workshop. Everyone takes it in turns to say something motivational to the class in the motivational speaker character of their choice.
Everyone stood in a circle at start of class. Each person takes it in turn to say their name and a boring fact about themselves, but said in the emotional tone as if it was a really exciting fact. The class then gives them a huge round of applause as if what they said was[…]
Step on stage to build a relationship From Keith Johnstone. Telling improvisers to get on stage and “do a scene” can be less helpful than saying “build a relationship”. Going on stage to build a relationship means we have something we can actually do and means we go on stage focussed on each other and[…]