Improv was doomed with a semantics crisis from the start. When long-form improvisation began to flourish as its own art form under comedy guru Del Close in Chicago in the 1980s, “improv” referred to ...

Sometimes you’ll hear that a movie used “a lot of improv,” but when pressed the director will reveal that at most a handful of lines of dialogue were made up on the spot. All these extended and/or ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “The world belongs to the energetic.” While true, in our volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous world, it may be even more true that “the world belongs to the most ...

Since its first entry on the comedy scene in the 1950s, improvisational comedy, otherwise know as improv, has changed the world of comedy. As a former elementary school teacher turned professor of ...

Improv is a great tool for actors. Some of the best moments in film and TV have come out of it. It helps breathe new life into a sleepy scene and can also improve your focus, helping you stay present ...

Improv training for business development is not a new concept. It's been used by MBA students and creative departments and has real connections to making leaders stronger. My company is tasked with ...

There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that improvisation helps people deal better with uncertainty, but Peter Felsman, Sanuri Gunawardena, and Colleen M. Seifert have just published the findings from ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2018 issue of strategy+business. Leaders who listen and engage in open dialogue with their employees gain enormous advantages. Yet, in practice, ...