Workshop

IMPRO WORKSHOP & BLIND MAPS ॐ 🏻

WARM UP

Body on floor - (white sheet over )- eyes closed

Write or draw something with toes - knees- hands - nose

Three levels of body : explore the ground - crouching - standing

Move slowly - feel joints and little bones to stand up and dance alone

Move towards group - use their bodies -contact - form a dance - then stand still together - then move as a single body

Finally separate and walk away

DRILL

Balance : one person holding the other till falls . Release from side

Hands together , touch with finger tips , eyes closed. Then same but dancing , touch with finger tips to the shoulders - Then try in a group of three.

Dance following the partner. First similar then interpreting

Dance in a closed area, following the traces of the other

Tip: if out of inspiration , imagine drawing a heart with a part of your body

PERFORMANCE EXERCISE

Start standing up, imagine coccyx and spine moving to the ground then arms shoulders. Move to ground, then use three levels.

Three Partners manipulate your body, legs, arms and head. Then body moves by itself, in suspension (as if in water) eyes open. Then people just give a touch, signal, and dance in four.

Similar dance in four - stay connected - touch or not - vary the speed of the movements - use the space - walls - be aware of the audience

CUE  TO START PERFORMING

Sit back to back

Move sightly back front side twist

Dance in pair - near - far - on three levels- don't look at each other - be aware of the presence of the others- in suspension - keep the rhythm

Glove - sweep with hands members of partners - create a dialogue within the dance

Touch anywhere partner: with hands - arms - feet - head - body : create a dialogue by having the partner pushing against your pressure - create a dance

PERFORMANCE

Use all these elements to choreograph a dance in any number of people using the space and the audience

Acro-Machine: every time touched makes a movement , sound , songs, phrase in different languages

Three sets with actors doing props , props are not moving and then are moving according to the need of the impro

Mime, act and direct a story:

"This morning I woke up and I met a caterpillar"

Lisbon, Penha da França - 11, 12 e 13 Julho 2017