Dan O'Connor--Thing 1 & Thing 2
Class description
🎠THING 1 & THING 2
Surrender Your Agenda with Dan O'Connor
What’s the story?
What happens next?
What’s my character?
What would be funny?
Stop trying to figure it out.
One of the biggest obstacles in improvisation is feeling like we have to come up with something.
The more we try to invent, the less available we become to what’s actually happening.
Inspired in part by Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis, this workshop explores the difference between the improviser who is thinking, judging and planning—and the improviser who is present, responsive, and able to trust what they already know.
Instead of inventing the story, we’ll practice discovering it together.
Through exercises in listening, observation, relationship, emotion and physical behavior, we’ll shift our attention away from ourselves and onto our partner and the world we’re creating together.
The goal is simple:
Surrender your agenda.
Pay attention.
Respond to what’s actually happening.
Talk less. Know more.
Invent less. Discover more.
🎟️ Registration is open.
Come play. Come discover. Come see what happens when you stop trying to make it happen.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
đź“… Saturday, March 6, 2027
⏰ 12 PM EST | 11 AM CST | 9 AM PST
⏱️ 2.5 hours
đź‘Ą $45.00, all fees included
