29: Gametape - “PQ” - Spinning Plates, Raising the Stakes, the Joy of Improvising w/o Travis

There are a lot of similarities between athletes and improvisers: consistent practice, performing in the moment, and of course, the way we look with our shirts off. But we can also watch our gametape like our favorite athletes, and Stormchaser has found that watching shows and discussing what worked and what didn’t is an efficient way to strengthen our improv muscles. With our gametape episodes, we wanted to share some of those discussions so that you could learn from and possibly relate to our mistakes and our successes. Let’s get better together!

This episode was recorded without Anatasha (she’s currently deep undercover and if she told us any more she’d have to kill us) and covered a show that Travis missed because he had a hot date with traffic on the 405.

On this episode, Andrew and Travis talk about “spinning plates,” “throwing daggers,” raising the stakes of a scene, playing a “peas in a pod” scene, and the power of stillness. We say WAY too many nice things about Anatasha and WAY too many mean things about Travis. And stick around for the end of the episode where Travis gets his mind blown when Andrew talks about a unique and cool perspective for zoom improv.

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