Rules of Improv
I did a show last week and a few people came up to me after the show and said “you broke so many rules of improv”. They were not accusing, they were confused. To be honest, I not only broke some, I broke a ton in one sentence. For example, I started once scene looking out a window (not focused on my partner), I said “Do you think they are still out there? (question and talking about someone off stage). One of the other audience members involved in this discussion said that I was in character, my character was afraid and that choice was honest to the character and that is why it worked.
I explained it like this;
The rules of improv are guide lines. Like a coloring book where you get a picture and you color it in. You can pick any color you want, but at first you try to stay in the lines. As you get better at staying in the lines you are developing a pincher grasp, basic techniquess and an idea of what picture you like to color and which ones don’t interest you. At some point staying in the lines is not going to be enough for you. You are going to want to draw your own pictures. Now some of them may be very similar to the pictures in the coloring book, but they are still yours and still original.
The “rules of improv” are the lines you color in and try not to cross. When you have mastered staying in the lines then you branch out. You get rid of someone else’s pictures and do your own.
Picasso when he was 16 was an extremely good realist painter. By the age of 21 he was doing some very good impressionist paintings. He kept growing as an artist and eventually spearheaded the Cubist movement by the time he was 29. He had to learn the rules and techniques of the other styles in order to transcend them. Take Jackson Pollack for example, he transcended his other styles to create his own and to take art further. If I throw paint on a canvas I am mimicking the style, but until I learn the techniques and own them, I will never be able to be a great artist.
The rules are the lines and it is hard to stay in the lines at first. We all realize the the rules have set us on a path in order to transcend them. Then we understand and have the skills to not worry about the lines. I have been around long enough to want to create my own lines.
Rules should be transcended and not aimed for.
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