Improv for Beginners: Boost Your Communication Skills

What Is Improvisation and What Is It For?

A course by Borja Cortés García-Moreno , Actor and Theater Teacher

Actor and Theater Teacher. Madrid, Spain.
Joined January 2022
98% positive reviews (49)
2,517 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: What Is Improvisation and What Is It For?

Overview

“Let's start with the basics! In this first lesson I will explain what the art of improvising is and how it can help you in your personal and professional development. ”

In this video lesson Borja Cortés García-Moreno addresses the topic: What Is Improvisation and What Is It For?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Improv for Beginners: Boost Your Communication Skills. Learn how to improve your communication, enhance your creativity, and increase your confidence in any context with theatrical improvisation techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“What is improvisation and what is it for? In this lesson we are going to talk about what improvisation is and what is it for? What can an improvisation course bring us? in our personal life, in our work life? The RAE defines "improvise" as "doing something suddenly, without study or preparation. This technique, these tools that we will learn during the course, They will help us expand our listening capacity, they will help us to be more spontaneous, to react creatively to the unforeseen and gain in mental agility too, to react quickly to the unexpected. So when in this course we say "improv...”

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Course summary for: Improv for Beginners: Boost Your Communication Skills

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (49)
  • 2517 students
  • 4 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 0m)
  • 7 downloads
  • Category

    Marketing & Business
  • Areas

    Audio, Communication, Creativity, Film, Film, Video & TV, Storytelling

Borja Cortés García-Moreno

Borja Cortés García-Moreno
A course by Borja Cortés García-Moreno

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Actor and Theater Teacher

Borja Cortés is an actor and theater teacher, as well as a creativity and public speaking coach, who has become an expert in improv over the past 26 years. He currently forms part of two of the most well-known improvisation companies in Spain: Impromadrid Teatro, of which he is a founding partner, and Jamming Teatro.

He also teaches courses and workshops on improv as a personal development tool that can be applied in different areas, from artistic to business settings, which has led him to work with companies like Renfe, Alcampo, and Accor. Additionally, he works as an actor for theater productions and a range of audiovisual projects.


  • 98% positive reviews (49)
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  • 14 lessons (2h 0m)
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  • Audio: Spanish
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  • Level: Beginner
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Improv for Beginners: Boost Your Communication Skills. Marketing, and Business course by Borja Cortés García-Moreno

Improv for Beginners: Boost Your Communication Skills

A course by Borja Cortés García-Moreno
Actor and Theater Teacher. Madrid, Spain.
Joined January 2022
  • 98% positive reviews (49)
  • 2,517 students