TH 320 - Improvisation

Prerequisites, junior standing, and screen acting, or theatre, or theatre performance major. Improvisation aims to develop and expand students’ imagination, range of expression, and to release them from self-consciousness by altering their attitude towards failure. Through a series of improvisation games, techniques, and theories exploring status, impulse, splitting-the-attention, give/take, clowning, masks, narrative structure, and character development, students will enhance skills used onstage and off (e.g., presence, flexibility, courage, compassion, team building, rapid idea generation, and problem solving). Letter grade. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits