WorksheetsImprov: Working Together
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which actions are LOW STATUS and which actions are HIGH STATUS?
Touch your face
Gesture infrequently but purposefully
Make the middle of your body (throat to belt) bigger and taller.
Hold eye contact
Place your feet a little wider apart than normal, and keep them planted
Make the middle of your body smaller
Want to look at others but hate to make eye contact
Giggle
Shift from foot to foot
Fidget with your hands
Which line is an example of a BLOCK?
Yes, let's go on that picnic!
Mom, stay out of my room!
No, that's not an apple.
Who has a higher societal status?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
An Amazon delivery driver
When you BLOCK someone, you are doing what to their OFFER?
ACCEPTING
DENYING
When playing improv, what can you do to put yourself in a GOOD STATE? (Multiple correct answers.)
Feeling and acting confident.
Taking risks.
Having fun!
Block your partner.
Mumble your words toward the floor.
Learning to work together means sometimes taking the (a) and sometimes allowing yourself to be (b) by your partner.
Being a great partner in improv means playing in what kind of a state?
(a)
Which are examples of raising the stakes and failing to raise the stakes?
The vase with my grandmother's ashes?!
The table that held my family's fortune?
We only have 30 seconds left...!
We have all the time in the world.
That normal rocking chair that has no value?
Yep.
I don't care about that particular car.
I am terrified of dogs!
Being "In the Flow" in improv means...
Making your ideas sound more important than your partners.
No pre-planning. Ideas come spontaneously and are supportive of your partner.
Coming up with the perfect response to your partner.
Changing the subject whenever your partner brings something up.
(No correct answer) Which of our performance games was your favorite so far?
Arms through (one person sitting, one with arms through)
"It's Tuesday"
Standing Wave (two lines of people playing the same two characters)
"Grandma's Ashes" (Master/Servant)
