Dada Undada
Here’s a game that BagelProv has been working on, and in tonight’s performance, I felt like we got it just right.
Ingredients: 6 (or some multiple of 3) improvisers.
Persons E & F leave the stage, shut their eyes, hold their ears, etc.
Persons A & B perform a scene from an audience suggestion while persons C & D watch.
E & F return and C & D perform the first scene for them, but in deconstructionist Dada style. To us, that means using words, gestures, and movements from the first scene in an attempt to have no meaning whatsoever. Since Dada is anti-art, this is usually done in a way that mocks the first scene a bit as well.
Persons E & F then perform the scene they imagine inspired the Dada scene.
We’ve gotten some great scenes for that 3rd scene, and the 2nd is often a lot of fun as well. I’m often surprised at what the 1st and 3rd scenes end up sharing, and what is interpreted completely differently by the 3rd.