- Purpose : Create community, reconnect with the community. Closing the path completed.
- Duration : 2 days
- Materials : camera, pc, sheets, pens, music, a big room for dance
- Participants : any number, from 11 years old
Rule :
- This practice is divided into two parts.
- First one. This practice begins on the street, everyone has to have a camera or a smartphone to take picture. Organize a research route through the streets of the city in which to photograph particular evocative writings or images, messages left on the walls, or murals, or more simply take a picture of anything that strikes the imagination.
- Go back to the room and, reviewing the photos, asking the participants to choose a picture, or more than one, that could symbolicaly inspire a theme on which to make a dance improvisation. The images has to evoke a gesture, a small dance, a body shape.
- After this body experience, ask the participants to give a title to their little dance improvisation. Put all the titles together to create a collective story and which closes the journey undertaken together.
Comments :
Take collective action after a path lived together, an action that makes the group even more cohesive, that creates a bond based on a shared experience, makes this bond stronger and the experience unforgettable.
Being able to create a story together creates a sense of belonging. The union of the individual stories creates an indissoluble and powerful weave, creates community.
To go farther :
Various music, various specifications from totally free expression to different specific constraints.
Make a public performance.
Sources :
Post-modern dance