let's do it live (don't think)

Well, if I want to fulfill my duty, I'd better write it down immediatly ("Don't think" would say the terrifying teacher - who knows what she speaks about - )

So, what did we do 3 weeks ago, let me remember...

For now on, she said, we must be able to warm up by ourselves (i bet in a few weeks she will tell us to learn theatre on our own and will stay at home with the pianist)...
So I had to sacrifice myself and take the lead of the warming up. First, the travel through the day that I still don't get (don't think! wow, ok, ok) but time will tell (usually, it does regarding the exercises we do here). Then the body warm up (this one is really usefull when you feel tired, it really wakes your body up for a new day). And the last element that Anna introduced the week before is just really funny to add (when you've got to do all the moves at the same time).

Then, I don't remembre exactly the order and maybe I will forget some of the exercises.
-We worked like the week before on the crescendo/decrescendo of the feelings: two team facing each other, and the closer you get, the more intense is the expression of the feeling. We focused particularly on love and hate this week. With the weeks it becomes easier each time to jump in the feelings. But I found hard to go back to love after playing hate.
-Then another exercise on the same theme. We teamed by pair. Climbing in a conversation from happiness to deep anger and then back to tenderness. funny how it really worked well.
-Third exercise: two teams. Anna gave randomly three cards to each team establishing two characters and one place. One member of each team had to direct the two others in a story around these cards. First team: Alain, Jocelyne and I. Alain as the young romantic lead, naive sweet little girl from the mountain, had left everything behind her to marry in the big city the beautiful Jocelyne but she soon realised he is an awfull pimp who wants her to walk the streets and will use all his psychological weapons to get what he wants. It was great to direct them (takes energy too, but that's a great feeling). I guess Alain doesn't get spanks like that every day, right? (Well, you never know).
Then the second team brought us into a piano bar to tell us Casablanca meeting Gruss circus.

Last exercise ... shit I can't remember. It's like I never did it. Memory, you know... I don't think anyway.

I can't remember either actually, such a long time...good memory though and interesting point of view (TT aka the guru)

Florence's summary of Monday 11th Januray 2010

The first workshop of 2010 : a festive meeting and fireworks of feelings!!!

Only five team members (Jocelyn, Badra, Alan, Thibault and Florence) but many guests: - Mary with her “polichinelle dans le tiroir”, - Suzie, one of Anna’s friends, who is Australian and a singer, - Helen, who is American, one of Suzie's friends, and from 9: 30 PM to the end, some of the 2008-2009’s team members: Sylvie, Georges, Triduc.

At the beginning, we made the circle as usual but with new exercises;
breathing, different gestures one after another and then, all of them altogether – It is an exercise that is very appeasing. After, we made some gestures on music. One after another, we walked to the middle of the circle to dance on the sound of the music. Maria mimed a great scene of delivering!!!
Then, Anna parted us in two teams. We were placed in two lines face to face and far away and we had to walk step by step altogether telling the same sentence crescendo and decrescendo with different feelings.

Next exercise: we had to walk and Anna whispered a feeling in someone’s ear. The fellow mimed it and touched the others to contaminate them.

After that we had to invent a story workind in pair to express three feelings : Suzie and Thibault, who made a great show ( love, jealousy, anger)-Alan and Joss-Badra and Florence (joy, appeasement, fear)

PAUSE, a long PAUSE with everybody with wines and food….
Even the guardian came to share our Apéro! Feeling: JOY to meet our old companions again. Sylvie, Tri Duc and Georges stayed for the end of the workshop and even participated.

After the pause, we made some games with songs.
It was better than usual because Suzie, the singer, was there….Still two teams facing one another and singing, first “Au clair de la lune” and then, “I am singing in the rain”. One sentence was sang by a team according to a given theme/feeling, and the following sentence was sang by the other team according to another theme/feeling. We played on contrasts.Very good moments!!
And for the end, we had to invent a story with three feelings as at the beginning of the workshop but in a team of five.-Orchestra under Suzie the conductor’s baton (annoyance, pride and joy) -A plane highjacked by Georges’s crew! (fear, anger, revenge)

And that was it!