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Without creating the scene that has come before, Player A delivers a final line of dialogue, a physical button, and holds the silence.
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Player A makes an offer. Player B responds with a strange or unexpected offer. Player A responds truthfully to Player B’s offer. Repeat.
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Say as many unrelated words or phrases as possible. Track how many you can generate in one minute.
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There are many ways to practice interactive performance technique. Here are the four standard modes.
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Take different emotional hits off a series of random offers. If practicing alone, use an online random sentence generator to create the initial offer.
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Two players play a scene in which they build the context of the scene. After each player has made three offers, Player B makes a wildcard offer that is unrelated to the scene. Player A incorporates the wildcard offer with the scene at hand. Then the process is repeated in a new scene, with Player A introducing the wildcard and Player B connecting it to the scene.
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Two players engage in a conversation. The dialogue is spoken at a conversational rate. When one player stops talking, the other player immediately starts talking. The goal for both players is to release control over what they say and speak before they know what they are going to say.
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Player B puts forward an idea with a certain level of commitment, either low, medium, or high. Player A does a pushback that matches Player B’s level of commitment. Then roles are reversed and the process is repeated.
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Player A asks a priming question which Player B answers. Then, Player A follows up with an echo question or a “why” question and Player B responds to that.
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