Description: Players A and B start out a scene based on a relationship - married couple, co-workers, cellmates in prison, etc. Once A and B have established a conversation, Player C enters silently, and A and B stop talking. A and B must react silently to C's entrance; C can choose whether or not to react to A and B. 

​The scene remains silent until C exits. C should continue to enter and exit the scene at random intervals, and stay in the scene for different amounts of time.

Tips: A and B should not just stay inactive while C is in the scene, but rather react silently and continue the scene.

Description: Everyone in the group stands in a circle (or a blob, if necessary) and touches (at least) two other players in the group. Contact can and usually is made with both hands, but can be just fingers, or feet, or whatever body part is necessary.
When the coach says "go," all players start moving in any direction as one unit. Contact must be maintained at all times, although the contact point/appendage can be changed as necessary (if you find a hand comes loose, reconnect with a foot).

Tips: Adding dialogue to the group's movement is entirely up to the group, if it helps to justify the group's action.
There is no restriction on how the action may modify during the group's movement. Players may find themselves (if the moment arises) upside down or being carried by others. The entire group should commit to these choices, and offer support - literally - when necessary.
This exercise can get very tiring because of the physical nature of it. Let it go on as long as the group is comfortable.

Variants: Instead of giving the group free reign to move where they want, the coach can instruct them where to move in the room. This may cause the group to make interesting choices when faced with an obstacle (i.e., moving through a doorway, around furniture, etc.).
Sometimes called The Blob or Amoeba.

Description: The group will mime engaging in a single group activity; for example, playing tug-of-war, or pushing a car up a hill. No dialogue should be used during the scene - only action. Ideally, the activity will have some ending point, but it's not necessary.

Variants: The group activity might be decided upon before the group starts; for some next-level group mind connection, the activity can be unspoken. Instead, the whole group takes ten or fifteen seconds at the beginning and simply focuses (silently) on the rest of the group - after that focus time, everybody starts miming their part of a group activity. Gradually, each person's actions should come in line with everyone else's actions to represent a single activity.

Description: This game takes two Players and two audience Volunteers. Players A and B cannot move their own bodies during the scene; Volunteers A and B are required to move their bodies for them. The Volunteers will tap the Players on the back (or the front) of the knees to get them to move their legs; they will have to turn their heads or move their arms when appropriate (or desired). The Players will be able to speak, and throughout the scene must justify their positions with the current action of the scene.

Tips: Frequent Gets involve a necessity of action - one Player is teaching the other to do something, they are playing a sport, they are working at a factory building ___.

Gimmicks: The Players will often need to verbally justify their positions, but can also describe what they're about to do, to lead the Volunteers to move their bodies appropriately (or not, depending on the whims of the Volunteers). Players describing/engaging in a repetitive physical action (i.e., jumping jacks) can play with the Volunteer and get a good audience reaction.

Variants: Sometimes known as Moving Bodies. You can have more Players (usually no more than three) or fewer Volunteers, if you want to make the Volunteer(s) work harder.

Description: The entire body mills about on stage. The conductor will call out a number of people and a type of scene or tableau to form - for example, "Three people form an airplane! Seven people form a national monument! Six people form a family vacation!" (For the duration of the exercise, a particular number will always be associated with the same tableau.) All the players must then get in groups of that size and form the tableau with their bodies - ideally a still frame, but can have some movement if the theme suggests it. If the group isn't evenly divisible by the number called (for example, five was called out but there are three people left over), have the left overs add themselves to an already formed group.
The conductor will continue to call out different numbers and tableaus. Occasionally, he/she should repeat a number and tableau - the player must then form the exact same tableau as earlier with the exact same players.

Gimmicks: Instructors can call out very large numbers (if the number of players supports it). "Twenty-seven people form a parade!" Instructors should also think outside the box for the tableaus they call out (to challenge the players' physical and creative skills). "Four people form what's in my pocket!" "Six people form anguish!" "Five people form what Mona Lisa's really thinking!"

Description: Players A and B will start a scene, with Player C (or more) entering later. The host will get the suggestion for a dangerous occupation that's not really dangerous. The players will begin an open improv scene; at times, the host can call "Reverse" and the action and dialogue will go in reverse. When the host calls "Forward," the scene will resume moving forward (repeating things that have already been said/done if necessary). Eventually, the host will let the scene progress Forward to the "end" of the scene, call "Reverse", and end the game once the players return to the beginning of the scene.

Tips: Because of having to speak lines in reverse, this game is easier to play if the dialogue is kept to a minimum. Make it more about the actions and less about the words.

Gimmicks: Physical actions play well when forwarded and reversed repeatedly.

Description: Three players, A, B, and C, are engaged in a simple improv scene. There are generally two chairs - or better, a chair and a bench - on stage with them. Throughout the scene, one player must be sitting, one must be standing, and one must be laying down. As the scene goes on, a player will change positions, at which point the other two players must also shift to ensure the three positions are maintained - all the while, justifying the changes in position.

Gimmicks: One player can decide to do a repetitive shift in position - for example, doing sit-ups.

Variants: Sit Stand Lean, Sit Stand Squat.

Description: Two players play out a scene in one minute. The moderator suggests that maybe the scene could be improved by cutting the time in half - so the players repeat the exact same scene in only 30 seconds. They then perform it again in 15 seconds, then 8, then 4, then 2, and finally 1 second.

Tips: This game is almost completely about physicality. If the players can play a very physical scene, once the audience picks up on the gimmick of the game (cutting the scene in half and therefore having to speed everything up), they will get even greater enjoyment out of forecasting how harried the physicality is going to become.
- Don't be too wordy. It just gets in the way of the game.
- The prompt for the scene can be, "There is a box on the side of the road. What do they find in the box?" If it's something physical or something that will force physicality (i.e., a dragon, a tornado, an out-of-control locomotive), it will allow them to be physical more easily.


Variants: The scene could be played with more players; nothing sacred about two. However, more players might make it harder to incorporate everybody. If you play more players, perhaps start with two-minute scene.

Description: Players stand in a circle. Player A begins miming an action. Player B (to left or right, group's decision) asks A, "What are you doing?" A answers with any action which isn't what they are actually miming. B then begins miming the action stated by A. Player C then asks B, "What are you doing?" and so on. Continue as many times around the group as desired.

Tips: Don't think of an action that throws your partner under the bus. Give them interesting, but not embarassing, actions.

Skills: Specificity is great in this game, because it gives players a chance to practice how to mime such specificity. For example, do "digging a hole to bury my treasure" and "digging a hole to bury a dead body" look different?
- Physicality is important to practice acting out the details of the action. Players are free to add any physicalizations or characterizations necessary; however, don't let it turn into an entire scene.
- Don't let any one player's actions go on too long; there's some benefit in making players get to the "point" of an action quickly.

Variants: If the group agrees, all actions and characterizations can be done without vocalization or dialogue (except, of course, for the question "What are you doing?" and its answer). This forces more emphasis on Physicality.