Импровизационные упражнения для тех, кто работает с людьми — телесность, контакт, присутствие, память — без требования быть смешным.
A solo body-awareness exercise: move the head, neck, thorax, and pelvis along strict horizontal planes to isolate muscle groups and awaken the body.
Actors study their own movements by deliberately dissociating them — walking at different rhythms for each leg, eating without syncing hand and mouth, arms out of step with legs.
Players take any object and explore as many body–object–gravity relationships as possible, constantly shifting both how they hold the object and how their body meets the floor.
Actors perform familiar tasks—laying a table, getting dressed, caressing—with one small physical constraint, discovering how the smallest alteration of body or environment raises sensitivity.
A trust exercise in pairs where a sighted guide leads a blindfolded partner through real and imaginary obstacles using only touch, sound, or breath.
A sensory trust exercise: participants form a connected chain with eyes closed, then scatter blindly and must find their way back to reconstitute the original cobra.
A drawing exercise where each participant picks a shape representing their world, then the group shares and discusses what those shapes mean. Created by Matana Roberts.
A listening drill: no one may respond until they've mirrored back what the speaker said and received a confirming 'Yes'.
A sensory recall: the whole group sits quietly and revisits a past experience in full detail — colors, sounds, smells, movement — awakening inner life for the stage.
One actor tells a true personal story while colleagues act it out physically without interruption; differences are discussed afterward.