Part performance class, part team-building experience. Improv teaches students to listen, adapt, and create together in real time.
What’s Covered
Students jump in with warmup games designed to break the ice and shake off self-consciousness, then dig into the core rules of improvisation: say “yes, and,” give your scene partner something to work with, and share the spotlight. Through a series of group exercises and games, students build the collaborative skills that make improv work: trust, quick thinking, and creative risk-taking. The class wraps with small groups devising and performing their own improvised scenes. No scripts, no pressure, just creativity in action.
Educational Standards
- 4.TH:Cr1a — Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
- 4.TH:Cr2a — Collaborate to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work by asking questions about characters and plots.
- 5.TH:Cr2a — Devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work that reflect collective inquiry about characters and their given circumstances.
- 7.TH:Pr6 — Create through improvisation a drama/theatre work that will be shared with an audience.