(Ms. Hunt regularly leads the two child actors in low-pressure improvisational exercises.)

Mr. Chandrasekhar emphasized that the film, about a gang of anarchic, fun-loving Vermont state troopers, is not an improvisational exercise.

Besides sharing their perspectives and criticisms about the agency's creative work, the consultants have led Burnett employees through improvisational acting exercises.

On a recent afternoon at Taft, Maxine Maxwell worked with eight students in a 40-minute improvisational acting exercise for 10th- to 12th-graders.

She began with improvisational exercises and composition assignments.

Sometimes, the troupe develops ideas out of improvisational exercises.

They also use "Stewarts" as an improvisational exercise for songwriting while on the road.

He guided students, usually in pairs, through improvisational exercises.

In 2001, the band began practicing intense improvisational exercises.

He then rented a house for his actors, and put them through nine months of improvisational exercises and training in such basics as not looking at the camera.