Order to Associate

This class we started off with Word Association. Now, coming from an improv background, I have played this game numerous times with many different people in many situations and I can truly call myself a seasoned word association player. Sometimes we randomly play it in the dorm when we’re bored. Brace yourself for this next sentence though! Although I normally talk about things I hate (I’m a pessimist what can I say?), I truly, devoutly and utterly…. LOVE WORD ASSOCIATION! The spontaneity, the randomness everything about this game is so intense. I love the twists you can put on this game too. I’ve played it once where someone said a word (apple) and you thought of a word (banana) but you didn’t say that word (banana). You thought of another association with your word (banana) and said that instead (yellow). Get it? Oh well, I tend to be slightly incoherent when I am excited.

Anyway, we played this many times with many different partners and it was never the same. Ok, that’s a lie. I was in one group were someone said the same word and we went through it all again. But it was funny.

The second part of the class focussed on using the contentless scenes we had already learned in different ways. Such as changing emotions and expressions. I always put emotions into things and have preconceptions about how to play a scene. It was challenging to play it the way someone else told me to.