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For anything to become second nature, you need to do it multiple times. Pianists do their scales. Ballerinas do their barre. To become a great inter-actor, there are many skills that need to be repeated until they become second nature.

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There are many ways to practice interactive performance technique. Here are the four standard modes.

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The Gimme Getter is a mobile training app that delivers random suggestions, tracks time, and counts repetitions. It can even serve as a virtual partner when you’re training by yourself.

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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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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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Encyclopedia of Interactive Performance