Contact improvisation is valuable because it develops a lot of essential skills actors need to be a good actor. Like trust within your peers, this is needed as unless you're performing a monologue, to create a powerful scene you need to trust your fellow actors will pick up their cues and feed off the energy you bring to them. If they are struggling you also need to be able to help them out, something that contact jams develop, as it builds awareness of your peers and if you are inside your own head while performing you won't be able to interact with your peers or help them if they need it, ultimately hindering the piece.
It builds your ability to depend and fall back on the sub conscious, as when in a contact improvisation, you should only be operating within this space, not consciously thinking of what you are going to next but letting your sub conscious mind take control. This allows you to tune into your natural instincts something that can improve a naturalistic performance greatly. By letting your sub conscious mind take control you are fully in the present moment, not thinking of what happens next, when your cue is, you can totally interact and immerse yourself within your peers and your performance.
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