Shameless show
| Objective: To wake up your creative and thinking energy in a ridiculously shameless show! |
Duration: 1 to 15 minutes
Material:
- Your body and mind
- Space to move
Instructions:
- Choose a runway. To make your parade wonderfully silly, you need a stage that matches your style! You can parade along a hallway, or around a table. Choose the best stage to showcase your ridicule shameless show!
- Create your ridiculous walk. Once you've found the perfect runway to host your parade, walk on it in the most ridiculous possible way. You can raise your knees very high and propel your feet forward. You can swing your arms in all directions. You can even turn into overcooked spaghetti!
- Parade on the runway. Walk back and forth several times, adding more and more ridiculous elements to your walk each time! Then try going backwards or in circles!
- Think about your experience. Once you've finished your parade, you may ask yourself: Should we be afraid of ridicule? What's the difference between fear and timidity? Can timidity be an ally? Is it easier to be ridiculous when we're alone? Why or why not?
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Bonus: Do you still have ants in your pants? You can continue your parade by turning into various conceptual creatures! Parade around like the concepts of ridicule, fear, embarrassment, solitude... For each concept, try to find reasons to justify or explain your walking style. Does fear tread very carefully so as to not be spotted? Does ridicule walk backwards to avoid being mainstream? It's up to you to play the conceptual top model! |
| Tricks for tots: Start by walking the way you usually walk, then each time you cross the runway change something in your walk: an arm stretched towards the ceiling, a curved back, a head drawing circles—unleash your silliness! At what point do you think your walk becomes really ridiculous? Why? What does it mean to be ridiculous, anyway? |
Tips for teens: Would you do this ridiculous walk in the school hallway, or on the street? Do you act differently when you're alone, when you're surrounded by your best friends, acquaintances or strangers? With whom—or without whom—are we really ourselves? Can the ways that others look at us prevent us from trying new things? Why or why not? Perhaps solitude allows us to express ourselves freely... but if we are alone, are we really expressing ourselves? |
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