The Importance of Improv For Children
Throughout my performance/acting career, I've found nothing ever prepared me more than improvisation. I learned the magic of how to improvise my first year of high school. As a freshman, my drama class teacher, Sue Wurster, taught us how valuable a character can be. Knowing everything about that character, be it an impersonation or imagined, helps determine what the character would say or behave, off-script. To think quickly and come up with ideas on the fly is not only an asset to comedians and actors alike, it helps the everyday person deal with literally anything which comes their way. Improv, as without a net as it may seem (and is), is a lot like life. We never know how someone will react to a situation. To something you might say. And rarely do those who have improvisation in their toolbox, struggle to find the right words or actions. Improv and the development of characters is something necessary for children in that it keeps their imagination alive while maintaining a sens