Funny Walk is one of my favorite improv exercises! Here is how I approach itWalk. Now develop your own funny walk. You can copy something you see or a part of it. You can change any time. You can use the floor or the table tops, crawl or slide or roll or be up on your toes.
Now add a sound to your funny walk....
Or speak in gibberish......
Or sing in gibberish......
Add words, sing or speak them......
Your eyes are available as you pass others. Sometimes making meaningful eye-contact, having a response, a reaction.
Then we freeze and one person is in focus at a time doing their funny walk and making sounds/speaking/singing/talking gibberish or being silent as they move. When you are done you bump someone else and they take the focus.
Funny Walk works by forcing us to separate the voice from the habitual ways in which we hold ourselves as we talk. It breaks patterns of stiffness that stifle our creative self. It allows the inner goof to speak up and be heard. In song, sound, or just plain gibberish!
May the pulse be with you!
Abhay
Image: John Cleese in the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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