PRINCIPLES
Improvisers should listen attentively to all members of the improvising team so that they will not miss any details of the scene being established.
Rule of Listening
Improvisation acts as a team building activity. Students will learn to take turns, recognizing the important role of every single individual.
Collaboration - MAPAGKAISA
The mind of the improviser must always be open and not occupied will certain fixed judgements about co-improvisers. They should al be focused on the current task presented in the moment.
Don't Be Judgmental
Improvisation is an awareness of yourself, your co-players, and the environment surrounding you all. One will have to recognize the value of these three elements to make an improvisation work.
Mindfulness
Characters/Improvisers must agree with the reality of the scene being established
The Rule of Agreement / Yes, And...
It is important to be brave when you improvise. Students needs to get off the comfort chair and take the risk of baring the self in a unrehearsed creative situation.
Boldness - MATAPANG
Improvers must be willing to commit mistakes and even more, embrace the mistakes. Instead of getting off track by the mistakes; improvisers must accept it and incorporate the mistakes as givens in the scene.
Justify Mistakes
Improvisation also helps develop the sensitivity especially the listening skills of students.
Listening and Sensing - NAKIKIRAMDAM
The opposite of saying “yes’and” is blocking or denial. Saying “NO” kills the action of adding new information or worse destroys what has already been established.
Don’t Block.
Doing improvisation helps build the supportive value of the students. It enhances the students valuing of the “kapwa”, that each one will take care of each others back.
Positivity for the “Other” - KAPWA