Capitol Improv

Thanks to everyone who came out to drop trow with us this year!
We had around 200 brave souls in DC who came out to celebrate the international phenomenon which is now 11 years in the running.

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Today ended up being a relatively uneventful day despite the threats of apocalypse or rapture. However, there was a good prank suggestion floating around in the twittersphere that promised to make things a bit more lively. The tweet went something like this:

#Raptureprank: On Saturday, take some of your unwanted clothes and shoes and leave sets of them arranged on sidewalks and lawns around town.

With that, Capitol Improv sprang into action. We put out a few tweets and FB updates and quickly had a small army of people ready to drop a pile of clothing on the national mall or film and photograph us. This is the result:

We didn’t want the day to go without doing some good for the community though and much of the clothing used for the event will donated to a local DC homeless shelter.

The threat of rain didn’t deter an astounding 1200 people from coming out to participate again this year!

The crowd begins to gather at the start of Survive DC. Photo By thisisbossi

Very quickly, if you did not get a chance to donate and wanted to, please donate here. The park service permit put us way over our budget so every little bit helps. Survive DC is a community-funded event and only exists because of the contributions of people like yourself! It’s also the only place you can get a whole night’s worth of entertainment for just an optional donation!

The Awards:

Top Runners:
1st place – tied and both finishing at 9:50PM (1hr 50min)
George McArdle & Ben Stern
(Also taking the trophy for top team finish for Fat Heps Alumni)
2nd Place – finishing at 10:15PM (2hrs 15min)
David Shaffer
3rd Place – finishing at 10:24PM (2hrs 24min)
Judd Kennedy (Trophy yet to be awarded)

Top Chasers:
1st Place Clifton Vallance – 19 runners caught!
2nd Place Stuart Dean – 16 runners caught (Trophy yet to be awarded)
3rd Place Peter Matek – 16 runners caught (Trophy yet to be awarded)

Best Story – Neil Landers
Who managed to climb up a fire escape, jump between two buildings and slide down a construction waste chute to get to freedom.

Best Costume – Madison Geisler for her zombie batgirl.
(Honorable mention to spiderman btw!)

Anything marked in red denotes that we lack information needed to hand out or give proper credit for those awards. If you participated in SurviveDC, please share this link until we find everyone and give them the trophy they deserve. If you have information on someone listed above, please contact us with relevant information!
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This year’s Pillow Fight Day was definitely a success despite the looming threat of rain. At our largest point, we had around 200 participants that were undeterred by the rain to come out and swing some pillows.

Here’s the event video for everyone who has patiently awaited it’s arrival:

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This year’s No Pants Metro Ride video is finished, polished and uploaded for your enjoyment:

I had a great weekend, I don’t know about you guys. Hanging out with friends, a little shopping, and the funniest part? I forgot my pants!

This year, we had about 300 pantsless participants show up to ride the DC Metro. Photo by Andrew Bossi.

Hey everyone! Cruel to be Kind is coming up this weekend on Saturday September 4th. Get your team together and make sure to subscribe to Capitol Improv’s twitter feed to get some necessary updates before and during the game.

Here’s a video describing how to play:

And these are the rules:
Cruel to be Kind is a game of benevolent assassination that combines both ninja-like reflexes and warm fuzzy feelings!
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In April, Capitol Improv embarked on its most daring mission yet. A small team of highly-trained agents assembled to take the National Mall by musical storm. What follows is an account filled with intrigue, and tourists.

The Mission: to create a Stomp-inspired musical spectacle and surprise unsuspecting tourists.

In March, we sent out a call for musicians to get involved in a small, secret mission going down in the height of Cherry Blossom tourist season. We got together to practice weekends in advance, and picked out instruments like tupperware, coolers, trash cans and books. Everything looked like it belonged, and we hid in plain sight.

On the day of the event, we took our places, one by one and in groups, blending in with other visitors. Then a “janitor” with a trash can rolled up, and started the bass beat. As others joined in, we turned heads and got pictures taken of the performance by surprised onlookers. We even got some amazed applause.

While we’re putting a full-length video together of the performances, here’s a Behind The Scenes with some previews:

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The Mission: A barn dance taking place in the newly-opened “Barnes Dance”, which is a pedestrian crossing whereby people may cross through the entire intersection all at once, with cars totally stopped. Chinatown has some of the busiest intersections in DC, with tourists, businesspeople and the weekend crowd all converging on a Friday evening as we danced through.

Despite some heavy summer showers before and after the hoe-down, our group assembled, dressed in straw hats, plaid and their best shit-kickers. The crossing guards assigned to the intersection laughed as the group first entered the “barnes dance,” and onlookers stopped to snap a quick picture.

We did a few different turns through the intersection and even had a few people join in. Add photos to our flickr pool if you got some good shots! Go to Flickr

No traffic regulations were violated in the making of this video.