Building statues
Aim of practice: training the precision and delicacy of movement and of movement memory
Number of participants: 1+
Time allocation: 10 mins (+time the presentation takes - depends on the number of participants)
The exercise begins with all the participants in the room in a random arrangement. There is a period of 5 minutes of free movement, trying to fill the room. The exercise leader gives a clap. The people moving freeze. The position you are in, as a participant, at the moment of the clap: this is your "statue". The task is to then memorise the shape, return to a neutral zero, and recreate the statue from neutral zero to the final statue, slowly, step by step, concentrating and acting out each step in turn. This finding of the path from neutral to statue can take another 5 minutes. At the end, each participant can demonstrate their statue building. *attention to movement in fine detail, 10 minutes + presentations (depending on the number of participants). This exercise is for a flexible no. of participants. A large group can be accommodated if you have a large hall.*
Don’t ever act with the face in moving exercises. The creation of facial expression requires a lot of energy and effort. Creating it draws a lot of dramatic tension away from the body and its expressiveness.
source: prof. Jana Pilátová
Number of participants: 1+
Time allocation: 10 mins (+time the presentation takes - depends on the number of participants)
The exercise begins with all the participants in the room in a random arrangement. There is a period of 5 minutes of free movement, trying to fill the room. The exercise leader gives a clap. The people moving freeze. The position you are in, as a participant, at the moment of the clap: this is your "statue". The task is to then memorise the shape, return to a neutral zero, and recreate the statue from neutral zero to the final statue, slowly, step by step, concentrating and acting out each step in turn. This finding of the path from neutral to statue can take another 5 minutes. At the end, each participant can demonstrate their statue building. *attention to movement in fine detail, 10 minutes + presentations (depending on the number of participants). This exercise is for a flexible no. of participants. A large group can be accommodated if you have a large hall.*
Don’t ever act with the face in moving exercises. The creation of facial expression requires a lot of energy and effort. Creating it draws a lot of dramatic tension away from the body and its expressiveness.
source: prof. Jana Pilátová
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| illustration: Iva Bartošová |
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