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

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