Exercise 17 - Physicalizers

- Physicalizers get acting “into the body”. It makes one physical!

- Sometimes extraordinary changes occur in scenes simply when the location is

changed, or when actors are asked to carry on some sort of underlying action

such as jogging.

Exercise 17 Improv With Physicalizers (5pts)

With a different partner, use the lines from exercise 16 and incorporate the following physicalizers without rehearsal.

1. Jogging.

2. Setting a table

3. Putting lotion on at the beach.

4. Playing basketball

5. Building a sand castle.

6. Washing windows.

7. Cutting hair.

8. Stretching.

9. Dance class.

10. Karate.

11. Mopping floor.

12. Tug of war.

13. Arm wrestling.

14. Push ups./Sit ups.

15. Putting makeup on.

16. Making a pizza.

16. Sewing.

17. Laying bricks.

18. Tap dancing.

19. Hanging up clothes.

20. Capping bottles of vitamins on a conveyer line.

21. Heavy breathing

22. Flexing

23. Body boarding.

24. Sky diving.

25. Swimming

26. Molding clay.

27. Rolling carpet.

28. Building a fort.

29. Playing with bubbles.

30. Tight rope walking.

31. Hoola hoop

32. Outburst Crying

33. Brain surgery.

34. Flossing teeth.

35. Stair master.

36. War combat.

37. Waltzing.

38. Skate boarding.

39. Log rolling

40. Tennis

Stop! Now it is time for the first test! Be sure to review the notes!

(End of 1 quarter!)

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