Copy and paste the following notes into your digital logbook under the heading 'Spontaneity'.
Spontaneity is the ability to ‘act on the spot’, without hesitation. It requires the performer to provide ideas during performances that help the drama to move forward. The ability to be spontaneous in performance, to act without hesitation, helps maintain the pace and tension of the improvisation.
In pairs, sit opposite each other. In turn, each person says a word in quick succession which relates to the previous word (e.g. cat-dog-bark-tree). The aim is to keep the game going for as long as possible without laughing or hesitating.
You will be divided up into groups of 4-5. Each group sits in a different part of the stage. The teacher will then bring around a hat with a selection of locations/events (e.g. school yard, birthday party, funeral) that can be created and the group will have 10 seconds, in silence, to come up with a tableau that represents what they selected. The rest of the groups must then try to guess what the tableau is representing.
All students sit in a circle. One student starts a story using one word of their choice (e.g. Today). The next student continues the story by adding one more word (e.g. I) and the third student with a third word (e.g. went). Each student can only contribute one word at a time and it must make grammatical sense (i.e. the story can be a bit abstract but the sentences must make sense grammatically). When a student wants to finish a sentence and start a new one they just say ‘full stop’ and then the first word of the next sentence. Students are out if they say more than one word or their word choice doesn’t make grammatical sense. The last student in wins.
Students stand in a circle. One volunteer enters the circle and begins an activity, for example ‘washing a dog’. The next students in the circle enters and asks ‘what are you doing?’ The first student responds by indicating an activity that is NOT what they are doing, for example ‘cooking a cake’ and leaves the circle. The second student then must carry on doing this second activity until the next student walks in and asks 'what they are doing?' Again, an activity that they are NOT doing is indicated, for example ‘doing star jumps’ and the third student then begins doing star jumps. This continues around the circle until each student has had a go.