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!