Objective: It helps participants develop a strong sense of community.
Instructions:First you should outline a small area walk randomly across and around this space, criss-crossing in between your colleagues while making eye contact.
The Gaze
Objective:Gazing helps people open up to the members of a new community. It also helps to develop a strong sense of presence over representation.
Instructions:Randomly walk around the space keep your eyes open, and make eye contact while thinking of some one you want to get to know better gravitate toward that person.
Variations: Squinting and widening your eyes, Two points of contacts, Distances and levels.
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Poetic EthnographyObjective: It helps us negotiate the delicate borders between risk and consent, caution and adventure, self and other, artist and audience member.
Instructions: Begin by walking,finding a partner that you aren't familiar with and gravitate towards them. Partners should face each other 2 to 3 feet apart.
Multi-sensorial exploration of the human body:
Sight: The ethnographer should only use sight to examine the specimen.
Smell: After 5 minutes you can include smell with consent from the specimen to smell their hair, face, hands, clothes, etc.
Hearing: Listen to the partners body. You should hear the breathing, heartbeat, digestion, and other sounds.
Touch: Try to experience the texture of the other person's clothes, skin, muscles, bone structure, and hair.
Taste: For obvious reasons we will do without taste!
Learning how to handle and carefully manipulate another human body:
You are now ready to control the the other person's body and see how his/her joints work.
Human puppets and dancing doppelgangers Objective: The objective is for participants to experiment further with the creative manipulation of the body of another person.
Instructions:Partner with someone your height and stand behind him/her and carefully press your torso and legs against the back and legs of your partner. Slowly begin to transfer the energy and impulses of your movement to your partner's body. The human puppeteers can eventually take full control of their partners body movements.
Creative "Indian wrestling"
Objective:The exercise allows people with varied physical performance experience to explore basic partnering skills and weight sharing while learning how to move with another person while maintaining physical contact.
Instructions:Find a partner of equal height and weight bring your right foot forward and place each others outside edge of the right foot against each other. Your weight should be centered then hold your partners hand.
Part 1: Basic Indian wrestling: 10 minutes
Shift one's weight by pull, push, and releasing tension. While trying to make your partner lose their balance that is shared between each other.
Part 2: Stylized Indian wrestling: 10 minutes
Ignore the competitive aspect to try to allow each other to reach the limit of your balance and to regain balance.
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By: Kyle Woods
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