Design an Experiment

Five or six participants come as a small group together for at least a two-hour session. What do you want to work on? In what direction do you want to innovate your practice with a first concrete step? Every group member writes down a personal desire in terms of a question: “How can I succeed in….?”… “What can I do to…?”

The first person then opens by sharing his question. The others just pose a few (short) interviewing questions back to help maximise understanding. Then follows a silence. Every member ‘designs’ a small experiment that, related to the question at stake, can be done on the floor. Playful experiments are suggested to explore this first question using music, theatre, physicality, positioning in space and/or material. The bringer of the question chooses or mixes, from the offered possibilities, how to experiment for 15 minutes. After the experiment the group concludes with a short talk, followed by an individual reflective moment: everybody learns and takes something out of it. Depending on the completion time (between 30-60) two to four rounds can be done in one session.

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