Youth Summer Camp - July 10-14 - Mesa, AZ

Everyday the kids will learn new improv lessons that apply to both the stage and life. Lessons like staying positive, listening, eye contact, communication skills, and empathy. Everything that they learn is instrumental in their personal growth. Below you will find some of our core lessons. Listening – It’s a world-wide epidemic that kids don’t listen. And there’s not a lot of summer camps that focus on the SKILL of listening. Improv is about creating together and REQUIRES that we listen to each other. It’s the #1 rule in improv! Yes, And – On stage, we teach them to say “yes” to the reality which is being created, to stay positive and support the ideas that are being given by their partner. In real life “yes, and” teaches kids to listen, contribute to the conversation and to be way more positive, even about the most difficult tasks. (Kids saying “Yes, And” to cleaning their rooms is all we could ever want) Team Work – We reinforce the individual contributing to the success of the whole. Each kid and their imagination work with 1-10 other people to create amazing scenes on the spot. Requires listening skills! Pantomime – It’s the movement or display of action on stage. We teach the kids how to expand their creativity and really use their imagination. We get them to start flexing that creative muscle. Not only does it get them up and moving, it also showcases their ability to display their creativity in a unique way. Characters – Playing characters and making bold choices can be really fun! It also teaches us empathy. To play someone else besides ourselves teaches us to think in a different perspective, teaches us to have perception.