IMPROVISATION CLASS

Course Content: This course will teach participants the art of improvisation, through implemented games and exercises to help students to react impulsively. It’s a perfect method to enhance listening, awareness, flexibility, and teamwork. All these games and exercises are simply a lot of fun, as participants push themselves outside their usual patterns of behavior and expression, creating scenes and situations that are often as unexpected as they are enjoyable and entertaining. We will learn how to trust ourselves and others, suspend censorship and judgment, take risks, and expand our range of expression, overcome fears and blunder joyously, value our intuition and inspire our partners. The art of improvisation is not only a theatrical but even more an educational and communal experience. Furthermore, it can be used in the world of corporate development and training. Improv and theatre skills are useful to all, from scientists who must explain their work, to entrepreneurs who need to woo backers. The ability to be present in the moment, receptive to and actively listening to others, and to react with honesty are all skills actors learn as fundamental tools. These are all critical for success in life.