Creating something "new" requires generating a lot of ideas. To allow those ideas to bubble up, judgment - "good" or "bad" - must be suspended. Improv helps me with this through radical acceptance of ideas - others and my own.
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Creating something "new" requires generating a lot of ideas. To allow those ideas to bubble up, judgment - "good" or "bad" - must be suspended. Improv helps me with this through radical acceptance of ideas - others and my own.
The World Economic Forum lists creativity as one of the Top 10 Skills of 2025. Workplaces are hiring for it, schools are teaching it, communities are calling for it to help solve tomorrow’s problems today. Really, they should just enrol people in an impro course.
Today's guest blogger is Impro Melbourne ensemble member and teacher Brenna Dixon.
Today's guest blogger is Impro Melbourne student and professional opera singer Kimberley Colman.
Today's guest blogger is long time Impro Melbourne performer, teacher and former Artistic Director Patti Stiles. She sits down with IM alum Jim Fishwick to discuss her new book 'Improvise Freely'.
Today's guest blogger is Impro Melbourne student Nicole Smith, who takes us through her impro journey from Zoom to the room and back again...
Impro feels like home for the little girl in me. She breaks free from the rules and boundaries and gets to use her imagination to play, have fun and be spontaneous in a supportive environment. As adults, we forget how important it is to create space for these things. Spontaneity and play is actually a core emotional need that leads to rigidity and unrelenting standards when we don’t get to experience them as a child and don’t give it to ourselves as an adult.
"The Arts and Fitness - not a common pairing. When I started coaching, I watched other coaches to learn. Coaches with no background in the arts or performance explain and demo their classes and how members just kind of went through the motions rather than being actually present in the room and watching and listening to them, excited to jump in. I knew there had to be a better way."
So how does Impro actually develop these skills? Well, like everything else, it relies on a lot of practice. And to get that practice, the opportunities need to be present and accessible. While students are having fun and ‘playing (Impro) games’, they are actually developing core life skills.