Benefits of Sending Your Child to Santa Barbara Summer Camp Improv with Instructor Scott Topper
Summer Camp Santa Barbara Improv is so much fun!
Improv gives kids confidence to speak up, perform, and just to talk to people around you. Improv also helps to build sense of self and also generates a better sense of belonging.
Summer Camp Santa Barbara Improv helps kids to build confidence!
Improvisation focuses on exploring mock social situations. Improv really helps children with timing, learning the fine line between what's funny and what's too silly or what's funny and what's mean, but learning about it in a safe, nonjudgmental environment.
With improv, kids can just have fun and learn important social skills. Placing students directly into scenarios with other students helps establish social boundaries. It’s imprortant to know when to jump in a scene at the right moment and when it's time to let someone else shine. Santa Barbara Summer Camp Improv helps kids with the pragmatics of conversation and improves social health.
Santa Barbara Summer Camp Improv helps kids to hone their Social Skills
Improv is a productive outlet and provides a constructive environment. Santa Barbara Summer Camp Improv offers a fantastic, safe space for kids to learn social skills and feel rewarded and empowered. In this unique setting, they experience the benefits of positive attention from their peers.
Learning through play with humor is the most natural and most powerful way that children learn problem solving.
With scenes and games, improvisers can quickly find themselves in sticky situations and must think fast on their feet — a skill that will help them into adulthood. Improv helps kids to adapt to new situation by looking at the scenario and your scene partner and reacting. By being placed into new situations with different people you discover the solutions and positives.
Santa Barbara Summer Camp Improv Offers a Great Sense of Community
Summer Camp Santa Barbara Improv Instructor Scott Topper likes to give back to the community through teaching and supporting youth. Scott loves seeing kids improvisers and performers find their passion, and to help them with their improv journey! Improv should always be fun as kids learn new skills. The goal is to keep it simple, silly, and have fun along the way!
Some Santa Barbara Summer Camp Improv games and exercises include:
"Yes, and…"
(2 or more players)
After deciding on a premise for a scene (eg. ordering at a deli), the players begin the scene.
After the first sentence spoken (eg. "Do you have tomato soup?") each player must begin speaking by saying "Yes, and…", agreeing to what was proposed and adding to it (eg. "Yes, and would you like some bread with that?" "Yes, and I would like the whole loaf.")
Objective is to accept ideas, incorporate them and cooperate in building the scene.
"One Word At A Time"
(2 or more players)
After establishing a basic premise (eg. going to the mall), players take turns telling that story in the same first person voice, but only speaking one word at a time.
The object is to use listening and quick reactions to minimize pausing and create a fluid, coherent story.
Encourage telling an active story and large physical gestures to clearly communicate
"Story Conductor"
(3 or more players)
One player is the conductor while the others are storytellers.
After deciding on a premise, the storytellers begin telling the story in the first person, but can only speak when the conductor is pointing at them.
The storytellers must continue speaking as long as the conductor is pointing at them and can only stop when the conductor points at someone else.
The conductor can increase the difficulty by randomly changing the lengths and patterns of their pointing.
For a harder version, if a storyteller pauses too long or makes no sense, they are eliminated from the game.
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