Accepting
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Improv Glossary
A working A-Z of terms, rehearsal shorthand, and performance language used across improvisation.
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Advancing
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Agreement
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Ask-For
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Audience Suggestion
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Backline
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Backstory
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Beat
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Blackout
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Blocking
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Blue
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Breaking the Routine
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Bulldozing
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Callback
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Canadian Cross
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Canceling
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Character Journal
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Chivalry
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Cill
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Clap-in Edit
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Comedia Dell Arte
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Comedia Dell Arte Characters
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Commenting
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Conflict
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Cross Fade
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Denial
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Edit
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Embodying
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Endowing
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Finding the Game
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Flash Forward
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Flashbacks
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Focus
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Fourth Wall
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Freezing
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Fuck Your Fear
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Gagging
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Give and Take
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Gossiping
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Group Game
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Guerilla Improv
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Half-Life
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Handle
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Harold
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Hedging
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Heightening
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Hoedown
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Host
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Ignoring
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Impro
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Improv
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Initiation
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Instant Trouble
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Jabbertalk
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Joining
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Justifying
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Kabuki
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L
Lights Edit
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Line Game
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Long Form
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M
Mapping
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Mc
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Monologue
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Mr. Nice Guy
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Mugging
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Narrative
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Never-Ending Story
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Notes
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Object Work
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Offer
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Offer from Space
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Opening
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Organic Edit
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Out of Your Head
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Overloading
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Pattern
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Pimping
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Platform
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Playlist
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Post Mortem
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Postponing
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Premise
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Props
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Pulling Focus
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Q
Questions
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R
Raising the Stakes
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Rehearsal
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Reincorporating
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Revolving Door Edit
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Rule of Three
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Running Gag
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Scene Painting
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Second Beat
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Self Edit
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Setup
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Shelving
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Shivving
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Short Form
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Side Support
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Sidecoaching
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Sideline
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Sidetracking
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Space Object
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Space Work
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Split Focus
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Status
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Storytelling
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Subtext
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Sweep Edit
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Tag Out
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Taking Care of Yourself
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Talking Heads
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Third Idea Improv
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Tilts
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Time Dash
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Top of Intelligence
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Transaction Scene
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Transitions
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Truthfulness
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Voice-over Edit
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W
Waffling
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Walk-On
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Walk-Through
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Warm-Up
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Wimping
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Y
Yes And
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