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Zip Zap Zop is a warm-up exercise focusing on eye contact, energy, and reaction speed. Essential for improvisers as it prepares them for quick thinking and enhances group connectivity.

Flock Dance is a group movement exercise where everyone mimics the leader's actions. Important for improvisers to understand group mind and the importance of supporting fellow performers.

The Armando is a monologue-inspired long-form where an opening story by a guest monologist inspires the scenes. It's crucial for improvisers to practice active listening and building on narrative threads.

A format where four scenes rotate around a square formation as directed. Improvisers learn the skill of quick transitions and maintaining multiple storylines.

Living Room is a conversational improv format where players discuss topics as themselves, which spawn scenes. It teaches improvisers how to derive scene ideas from natural dialogue and personal stories.

Performers narrate a story while stringing beads onto a thread. It stresses the importance of building a cohesive narrative and symbolizes the interconnectedness of story elements.

The Harold is a structure for long-form improvisation involving scenes, games, and monologues. It's important for improvisers to know because it's a foundational format that helps develop complex narratives and group dynamics.

The La Ronde focuses on a chain of two-person scenes, with one person carrying over to the next scene. It teaches performers to build and maintain character consistency across different situations.

A game where performers switch between different genres at the host's call. It's a crash course on storytelling styles and genres for improvisers, enhancing genre literacy.

Freeze Tag involves performers freezing in action, being tagged out, and new performers starting a new scene. It cultivates quick adaptation, staging skills, and the creation of fresh scenes spontaneously.

The Bat is an audio-only improv scene, performed in the dark. Improvisers must focus on vocal choices, sound effects, and dialogue, honing their audible storytelling skills.

In Conducted Story, an improviser narrates a story, pointing to others to add sentences. This sharpens the ability to build a shared story cohesively and think on one's feet.

In Foreign Movie Dub, actors perform in a made-up language while others translate. This challenges improvisers to convey emotions and intent non-verbally, relying on physical expression.

A game where three performers must always be sitting, standing, or lying down. Improvisers learn to use physicality to drive scenes and maintain dynamic stage pictures.