Improvisation for Actors

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This course uses the art of improvisation as a tool for enhancing creativity, responsiveness, and immediacy for the actor; offering a way to explore the student's innate ability to be playful and creative. This class studies the fundamentals of improvisation, focusing on exercises and games that build confidence and improve listening, intuitive, and collaborative skills. In this course the student learns the basic rules, games, and forms of improvisation and their relation to scripted and non-scripted rehearsal and performance work.