IMPROV TERMS AND EXPLANATIONS
From the
ImpovEnclycopedia.org
(link updated July 2007)
Accepting
Advancing
Agreement
Ask-for
Ask-for Continued
Audience Suggestion
Backline
Beat
Blackout
Blocking
Blue
Breaking The Routine
Bulldozing
Canadian Cross
Canceling
Character Journal
Chivalry
Clap-in Edit
Comedia dell arte
Comedia dell arte characters
Commenting
Conflict
Cross Fade
Denial
Edit
Embodying
Endowing
Focus
Freezing
Fuck Your Fear
Gagging
Give and Take
Gossiping
Guerilla Improv
Handle
Hedging
Heightening
Hoedown
Host
Ignoring
Impro
Improv
Instant Trouble
Jabbertalk
Joining
Justifying
Kabuki
Lights Edit
Line Game
Long Form
MC
Monologue
Mr. Nice Guy
Mugging
Narrative
Never-ending Story
Notes
Object Work
Offer
Offer from Space
Opening
Out Of Your Head
Overloading
Pimping
Platform
Playlist
Post Mortem
Postponing
Props
Questions
Raising The Stakes
Rehearsal
Reincorporating
Running Gag
Self Edit
Setup
Shelving
Short Form
Sidecoaching
Sideline
Sidetracking
Space Object
Space Work
Status
Storytelling
Subtext
Sweep Edit
Tag Out
Tag Out
Taking Care of Yourself
Talking Heads
Tilts
Time Dash
Transaction Scene
Transitions
Truthfulness
Waffling
Walk-Through
Wimping
Yes And