Your team wants you to be the most reliable one on the team. And I’m not talking about just showing up for practice on time, which you absolutely should do, more on that later.
Anecdote time.
I have a teammate who I’m in love with. I fell in love with her in a 301 class at UCB while learning the organic opening. An organic opening is hard, especially for new improvisors. Our organic opening was harder, we did an organic opening where we looped back to the original motion and sound two separate times (think pattern game and looping back to the suggestion). This is no easy task for amateur improvisors who tend to keep blowing out ideas from monkeys to skiing to laughing to saying hey in an accent. But, this teammate was always looking for a connection to the first motion in the organic opening. And I began to always look at her when things were going for too long and low and behold we’d find a way back to our idea, in large part do to her.
I have a teammate who I’m in love with. I fell in love with her in a 301 class at UCB while learning the organic opening. An organic opening is hard, especially for new improvisors. Our organic opening was harder, we did an organic opening where we looped back to the original motion and sound two separate times (think pattern game and looping back to the suggestion). This is no easy task for amateur improvisors who tend to keep blowing out ideas from monkeys to skiing to laughing to saying hey in an accent. But, this teammate was always looking for a connection to the first motion in the organic opening. And I began to always look at her when things were going for too long and low and behold we’d find a way back to our idea, in large part do to her.
Being the one who is goal oriented, the one who it seems is going to carry the whole team on their back in a task is a lovable quality. I always felt safer knowing that she would help get our organic opening done. And, I know other people felt safe having that fall back. And that’s where good improv comes from, from the opposite of fear.
Now being able to carry the whole team on your back is impossible. But, look for what you bring to the team and do your damnedest to make sure you bring your quality every time.
I edit like a mother fucker and I’m always looking for connections in 3rd beats of Harolds. I don’t think my team is relying on me to do these things, and by no means should you rely on someone to get always something done. However, I know that improvisors appreciate that SOMEONE is actively thinking about these goals in improv.
Be the one who works their ass off to get something done. Name people. Start the object work. Ground crazy behavior. Label where you are. You’re teams gonna feel safer and do better work because of they feel safe.
Do you have task that you’re always looking to accomplish in shows? Does this weaken the team and create bad habits? Let me know what you think in the comments.
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