Improve Your Conversations

Pretend that you are mute while watching a television show, and react non-verbally to express the emotions that you interpret from the characters. Exaggerate these non-verbal reactions. Be sure to pause occasionally.

You have to observe, listen, be present, react, and adapt to find the flow. In finding the flow, you create something that both parties are happy with.

Improv comedy above all else teaches the concept of flow, which bestows the ability to make something out of nothing

the workshop left me with a strong impression of how to consciously ignore all

You have to observe, listen, be present, react, and adapt to find the flow. In finding the flow, you create something that both parties are happy with.

the workshop left me with a strong impression of how to consciously ignore all the chatter in the world and focus on the person in front of me.

run out of things

tremendous amount of elements

represented a different approach,

This is not insignificant: it instantly frames what you see on stage as a collaborative effort where everyone is supporting everyone else for the common good.

If any of the players sense that someone needs support, they will instantly give it. They understand that the performance isn’t about any one person in particular – it’s about how the entire team does! The weakest link of the chain will never be allowed to falter, as everyone will pitch in the moment they sense trouble.

The players are extremely flexible and adaptable because they have no pre-set agenda or real purpose other than to work together with the other players successfully. What has been unspoken thus far is the absence of an ego, as an ego can completely sabotage and destroy what is being carefully created.