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Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply to many different faculties across all artistic, scientific, physical, cognitive, academic, and non-academic disciplines; see Applied improvisation .
The Improv Olympics were first demonstrated at Toronto's Homemade Theatre in 1976 and have been continued on as the Canadian Improv Games. In the United States, the Improv Olympics were later produced by Charna Halpern under the name "ImprovOlympic" and now as "IO"; IO operates training centers and theaters in Chicago and Los Angeles.
The Canadian Improv Games had been doing competitive improv at various events as early as 1974. ... "Comedians Without a Net". Maclean's, 1999-09-08, Vol. 112, Issue ...
Theatre games are also commonly used as warm-up exercises for actors before a rehearsal or performance, in the development of improvisational theatre, and as a lateral means to rehearse dramatic material. They are also used in drama therapy to overcome anxiety by simulating scenarios that would be fear-inducing in real life.
It is noted that focusing too much on trying to find the Game can cause players to miss the game entirely. [4] [5] Some players say that one should not pay too much attention while performing, and that they should only try to have fun. [6] The Game will naturally arise so long as the player focuses on the immediate relationship. [5] [6]
The Loose Moose Theatre Company (LMTC), is a theater company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [1] It was co-founded in 1977, by Keith Johnstone and Mel Tonken. [2] LMTC has an international reputation for developing the theatrical style of improvisation and specifically the work of Keith Johnstone. [3]
Johnstone's work with performers comprised a vast collection of training games, exercises and lazzi. He wrote two books about his system; 1979's Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, and 1998's Impro For Storytellers. [3] Johnstone's teaching was described as a reversal of the lessons he received as a child in postwar Britain.
The game sees the player, an agent, try to book an up-and-coming comedian for the late-night Johnnie K. Show. They enter the improv club 'The Improv' to interact with the local patrons to try to book a client. It has a point-and-click interface.