Drama

This week was another session of drama improvising !
First we played a game with a bottle to warm up, one person was the cat at first and had to touch the others with the bottle that made them become a cat too. It was a good way to wake up, because in the morning it is quit difficult.
After that we started improvising on a special scene setting. The stage was supposed to be a disc on balance with people standing on it. At first, we were just walking and runing around but then we had some scenes going on and the character had to keep the disc on balance while there were moving.
Then, we played a funny game: everybody eyes closed and one person being the vampire. The vampire strangled the other, what made them freeze. So each person had to escape the vampire, all that with the eyes closed. It was funny to run around eyes closed trying to escape from someone you don't even know where he is!

One other fun thing we did was the paquito ! people standing and carrying one person like the picture below:

Another class of drama improvising that was good !
See you next week : this time we are going to have brunch ;)
Ju

Getting to know yourself !

This week's class was all about getting to know yourself.
We did a game that consisted in making 2 lines with people standing. Then , one person ran in the middle of these lines with closed eyes, and at the end 2 people caught this person. To do this exercise you had to trust the people around you and be confident that they will actually catch you.

After that we walked around the room and Steve gave adjectives qualifying personnality. We had to play the opposite of what you think you are. For example for reserved/extrovert, I played reserved beacause I think I am not really. This exercise was fun to me because it made us think about our personnality, and sometimes I didn't really know which one of the adjectives qualified me best.

To finish, we made an improvised drama scene with 6 people at the time: each person had a status number from 1 to 6, 1 being the highest status. We had a scene with a bank hold up, and one with 5 mothers in a playground with their children that was pretty funny. The status wass not defined by the job or career but with the person's behaviour, her influence on the audience that made her low or high status. We had to guess the status number of each character, and we were not bad at guessing that !

**See you next week**
Ju