Games, Dances & Songs

Alien Translator

A low-barrier dramatic trio game that teaches making your partner look good and adaptability, as one player "translates" a conversation between two gibberish-speaking alien diplomats.

Elephant, Palm Tree

A fast, physical circle game with strong dramatic elements and lots of laughter, where a trio races to build a named shape before the counter reaches five.

Gift Giving

A low-barrier improv game that teaches making your partner look good and daring to be average, as players mime giving a gift and the receiver decides what it was.

Halftime

A challenging improv game where performers replay the same scene again and again, each pass in half the time of the one before, until it lasts only a few seconds.

Haybarn

An energy-passing circle game for warming up and raising the energy at the start of a workshop, where "Yee-haw!" sends the energy on and "Haybarn!" bounces it back.

In The Manner of the Adverb

An improv guessing game, also at home in a traditional games workshop, where one player guesses a secret adverb by watching others act out short scenes in its manner.

Memory Loss

A low-barrier dramatic pair game that teaches adaptability and making your partner look good, as a storyteller keeps "forgetting" what comes next and their partner fills the gap.

New Choice

A medium-challenge scene game where the leader keeps calling "New Choice!" so performers replace what they just said or did with a bolder option.

Party Quirks

An improv guessing game where a party host has to work out the strange hidden quirk each of their arriving guests is playing.

Sit, Stand, Lean

A challenging three-person scene game that teaches adaptability and watching your scene partners, since at every moment one player must sit, one must lean, and one must stand.

String of Pearls

A low-barrier audience game built on dramatic delivery and minimal improv, where volunteers fill in a story one line at a time between a fixed first and last sentence.

Why Were You Late?

An improv guessing game with an audience where a guesser works out why they were late to their own job, how they got there, and where they work, from clues their coworkers mime.

Zip, Zap, Zop

A classic energy-passing warm-up where players send a beam of focus around the circle with "Zip!", "Zap!", "Zop!"