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In most cases… People will follow you, not based on the rightness of your argument, but based on how you make them feel. Related posts meloDRAMA (part 4) (0) meloDRAMA (part 3) (0) meloDRAMA (part 2) (0)

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HAlloo in there! What are you up to?

My self is such a mystery to me sometimes. I get sad, depressed, burned out and I look around, what just happened here? Who’s upset? What’s going on? Can I help? Then I have a rise in energy, joy, excitement! Something bubbliing under the surface. ARe you working on an art project in there? What [...]

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meloDRAMA (part 4)

Anther improv story from last week. Our improv class is SO funny and I almost never remember exactly what was so funny. Ok, one more fun scene: Emotion switching. We were stuffing a pinata. I started with chavaunistic, he started with schitzophrenic (I don’t know how to spell either of those.) It is really hard [...]

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meloDRAMA (part 3)

AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv last week. An emotion switching game: This time I started with masochistic and my partner started with ambitious. Me: “Cinch up my dress, tighter, tighter! Ouch! MMM! Oh!! I can almost feel my ribs cracking!” She: “With this dress and my skill [...]

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meloDRAMA (part 2)

AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv tonigh I also had an incredibly crappy scene where where the audience gives us a task, gives each of us an emotion and then we have to switch emotions back and forth while the scene is taking place. It went really badly [...]

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meloDRAMA

AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv tonight. ““ We had a melodrama scene where our goal was to act melodramatically, our task was to watch paint dry, and our opening line had to be, “What time is it?” We both stared at the imaginary wall between us and [...]

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Experiment with a new attitude

I had two interesting unintentional attitude experiments last week. I went to an improv class and the theme was emotions. While we were playing a scene, someone from the audience would clap, say, “Stop!” and call out an emotion. Then we had to start talking again from the exact sentence we were speaking while embodying a new emotion. [...]

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