Thought I would put all the theater games on line where we could easily access them. I did take Andy's and Christine's email addresses out, but they are in the email sent to all of you at the end of July.

Hope the rest of your summer is renewing and restful.

Theater Games Session I:
Activating Creativity: Risk, Trust, How Problems Become Opportunities, Power of Mistakes (Andy)

Introductions – 10 min. Your key concepts of conference thus far Principles and goals of our work together –

Session 1,we’ll be doing group work, loosening up, trust-building, playing, having fun, building community; then moving to working in pairs, exploring storytelling; then looking at group construction of narrative based on theme and gesture.
* “Hey!”
* Tilt
* Wind in the Willows (see photo below)
* Blind Finger Lead (see photo above)
* 1-2-3
* Tour of a Space

Gestures When I Was A Child:
• Go around the circle, completing the sentence, “When I was a child”
• Develop gestures which essentialize the phrase you chose – everyone stands in a circle, facing outward, develops a gesture, repeats it until it’s shaped, has a beginning, middle, and end.
• Share the gestures in the circle.
• Break into 4 groups of 5, each group combines their phrases with gestures, puts them into sequence. (consensus-building)


Session II Golden Apple Foundation Workshop Activities (Christine)

Building Community: Creative ways to reach group consensus
How verbal and nonverbal information is shared

Introduction to today Guidelines:
Help each other succeed = Keep each other physically, emotionally and intellectually safe
Will do embodied exploration of big ideas: community (ensemble), personal and group creativity

Warm-up “Rusty tin-man” stretch
Accepting and letting go of leadership
Flocking exercise

Building trust and embodied knowledge
Values assessment activity = “Place yourself along a line from 1 to 10 in response to the statement......" (ie., Where were you born? What kind of temperature do you like? I sing in the shower? I love my job? I feel comfortable being creative in my work community? etc.)

First step in trusting others is trusting self and own creativity
“Yes it is!” game

Nonverbal group creation
Sightless walk activity (accepting and letting go of leadership)
Pair walks, Groups of 4 walks,
Create groups shapes: circle, triangle, figure 8, tree, boat, etc., etc. (prompt: act, observe, adjust)

Nonverbal creation and narrative
Handshake statue stories

Verbal and nonverbal, issue-based, group creation
Brainstorm issues of concern to group and pick one
List adjectives/ feeling words re: this issue
Pair sculpt these words
Changing groups sculpture exercise (3 make sculpture and one gets tapped out)

Discuss “Agree/Disagree/Uncertain” as way to explore “truth claims” and build consensus around complex issues

Creation of group story
Participants sit in groups of 5-6 and share story of time when felt most or
least creative at work ----Pick one to create as a group
Create group performances of story using a title, 1-3 images, 1-3 words,
1-3 gestures, and repetition
Show stories to rest of group and described what we “got” from each

Wrap-up discussion: What did you get from today?