Looking and Seeing
I have been teaching a beginners 50 years and older improv class which is so enlightening for me as a seasoned improviser of about 15 years and yes, older than 50 years of age. I am soon I will be teaching a group of all ages improv about using our five senses in improv online or as I refer to it, Zoomprov. As I have been planning this class, I realize it could be a series of classes. And as I teach these newbies in a drop-in live class, there is overlap, of course. While teaching my new improvisers the make-believe art of improv acting, I’ve come to notice that it is not easy for some players to look the other players in the eye. It has caused me to want to start with an exercise where they line up, one player facing another and simply staring at the other in the eyes for a whole minute, then look at a make-believe object in their hand then stare at the other for 30 seconds and so on and then switch partners and do it again. This would not really be possible in the same way onli...