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The first exercise is a kind of transition to the actual improvisations. In this exercise, there are still no costumes and no red nose. The improvisation requires one to come on stage, look at the audience, go to the object in the middle of the stage, (usually something like a blanket, or an article of clothing), do one thing with it and then exit the stage. The essential rule is that one should make absolutely no plans beforehand regarding what one will do and ‘simply’ wait till the moment itself and then ‘respond’ to the object and the situation.

This seemingly innocuous exercise often generates feelings of terror. The reason is apparent: for the first time one has to go out and do something alone in front of the whole group and one is being asked to have no idea of what that will be. In their responses to my research inquiry, most of the participants refer to their intense initial fears and subsequent feelings of release during this short introductory exercise, some in striking detail.