In the improv class I teach, we did my version of an exercise that I learned from TJ and Dave. It's a beguilingly simple (and strangely challenging) exercise in which the improvisers engage in honest conversation. During the exercise, my students performed many lovely, engaging scenes full of truthful moments. Afterwards, one student said to me, "But we weren't even improvising!"
Aha!
Luckily, it had only been a few days before
that I had been sitting in a workshop when David said this...
Catch up on past improv geek-a-thons:
Geeking Out with…TJ Jagodowski of TJ and Dave
...Scott Adsit of 30 Rock
Geeking Out with…TJ Jagodowski of TJ and Dave
...Scott Adsit of 30 Rock
...Colleen Doyle of Dummy
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Pam Victor is the founding member of The Ha-Ha’s, and she produces The Happier Valley Comedy Show in western Massachusetts. Pam performs "Geeking Out with: The TALK SHOW," a live version of this series, at comedy festivals throughout the land. Pam writes mostly humorous, mostly true essays and reviews of books, movies, and tea on her blog, "My Nephew is a Poodle." Currently, Pam is co-writing "Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ and Dave Book" with TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi. If you want to stay abreast of all the geek out action, like the “Geeking Out with…” Facebook page! (Yes, I said "breast.") And get all her nonsense at www.pamvictor.com.
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