Today was the first day of our Summer School. The idea is that we, the tutors, walk into the room with no ideas other than a few exercises. From these exercises we work with the young people to create a show that we will perform on the Friday.
After playing some games to get to know one another (we were delighted welcome a lot of new members) and a few warm-ups we were ready to get stuck into the main business of the day. We started by doing an exercise called sonic-painting that involved listening to music and feeling both our own and others faces to create a image that was entirely unique.
After this we then tried to turn our drawings into real 3D images using our bodies, this made for some really interesting shapes that we then moved and created some intricate dance sequences.
From these images we wrote down a number of words that popped into our head and we started to create more and more inspirational material from these words. After our younger ones had gone home we went back to drawing and made some pictures about memories that we had. We then selected our favourite items from these pictures and devised short scenes.
After these we started to piece together ideas that kept popping up. Oddly the Queen and things turning into monsters were recurring, as was the concept of 'breaking out'. So we shall see where these lead tomorrow...
