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​Saying yes!  
The first rule of improvisation is: say YES!  Can you believe this is a rule?  It’s all that’s asked of us when we step into an improvisation scene.  Saying a loud resounding YES to yourself as you trust your idea, jump in and play.  Saying YES to your scene partner who might be inviting you to bake pancakes, fly to the moon, or spy on the neighbours.   It’s funny how hard it is initially, how often the NO pops out without us even realizing.  No! We can’t spy on the neighbours, that would be wrong.  Fly to the moon in this contraption? Are you nuts??  Pancakes? But I’ve just fried you eggs!   If you’re a new improviser those scene killer NO’s are just living to murder your scene.
 
If I don’t play for a while I discover the NO bobbing under the surface of every interaction.  I have to call up the YES from deep within and give myself permission to jump in with all four feet and surf that YES through all I do.  Then the class is over all too soon and I have to wait a whole week before playing again.  Oh YES, where have you gone?  
 
Say it wholeheartedly in improv and discover that’s where the magic begins.  YES is the launchpad to brilliance and then let those tasty reverberations flood into ours real life as we get into the rhythm of YES, let’s do this!  YES, let’s play improv!