Sky Falls
Sky Falls is an ensemble exercise in which a facilitator calls out environmental disasters or sudden changes and the group must physically respond as a unit. The exercise builds collective responsiveness, physical commitment, and the ability to react with full-body investment to imagined circumstances.
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The Improv Archive. (2026). Sky Falls. Retrieved March 17, 2026, from https://improvarchive.org/exercises/sky-falls
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