If you’re a competition dancer, you may know the feeling of standing onstage waiting for your turn to dance, with one big question in mind: “What am I going to do?“😅 In improv challenges (also called improv “competitions” or “battles”), dancers perform on the spot for a song or set of counts and receive a score on their performance. And lately they’ve become some of the most-watched dance moments online👩🏾‍💻 To find out how to turn snap-decision dancing into a memorable performance, Dance Spirit asked three experts—TheDanceAwards 2026 Female Senior Best Dancer Giselle_Gandarilla, fellow improv wiz JoeyTheDancer, and NuvoDanceConvention judge and faculty member Jason Parsons—for their best tips. Read more at the link in bio💞 📝: melissgarlock 📸: JoeyTheDancer Photo by Jacquel.n, courtesy Vice 📸: Giselle Gandarilla at JUMPDance Convention in Orlando. Photo courtesy Gandarilla 📸: Jason Parsons (center) teaching at NUVODanceConvention. Photo courtesy Parsons 📸: Giselle Gandari...