Em Workshop Activities
Form Objects (aka🍴)
In pairs or small groups players silently become non-human objects together
Widen the Lens
justification game to expand context
Parallel Universe (Swedish Story variation)
One person begins telling a true story and the instructor hands slips of paper with Emotion, Place, or Object for them to incorporate into their story.
Machines
One at a time, people add to create a moving, noise-making machine.
What are you doing?
One person mimes an activity and the next person asks 'what are you doing' They then answer with a different activity that the asker then mimes.
Yes, and scene
2 people yes, and each other's offers and build a scene before our eyes
Brownian Motion (stop and start as group)
Silent exercise. Three modes of walking at the top of the exercise: neutral walk, fast/hurried walk, slow walk. Then add full stop, then stop & jump, then any mode. Whole group responds when it changes.
Relationship Sculpture
One person sculpts 2 people in relationship. Sculpted people shift their relationship to each other.
It's Tuesday
Each person responds with dramatic emotion to a neutral line