Activity Number ONE 15minutes
”Scatter yourself around the room… Here’s the rule.. Do not let the ball touch the ground…
you may tap slap play like a volley ball.. anything.. as long as you keep it off the ground…
BUT know your limit.. we are not fighting for Olympic champion.. I don’t want anybody to fall over…
If you miss the ball.. it’s ok.. We just going to count again…
So everyone count together and see how many touch can we keep the ball off ground..”
(Round 2)
”Now New rule is.. those who touched the ball must go and touch the wall before touching the ball again.. Count
End of this round
”Those who didn’t get to touch the wall go and touch the wall now”
(Round 3)
same as round 2 again
End of this round
”Those who didn’t touch the wall tap on someone else shoulder and say well done to them”
(Round 4)
Don’t have to touch the wall now
End of this round
”For those who haven’t get to touch the ball, kiss yourself at your inner elbow”
Activity Number TWO (Sense of space and movement) 15minutes
Section 1
”Walk into the space around this room… feel your movement…
Feel your feet connected to the floor each step…
Walk slower and feel your heel, roll to the palm of your foot to the toe…
Walk like normal again… feel your spine.. your shoulder while you walking into the space
Walk slowly again and feel the movement of your body…
Walk like normal again…”
Section 2
”Now while we are still walking into space.. You will slowly form the formation of the letter or number that I am going to announce…
DO not point with your finger… No indication… No talking.. Silently adjust yourself into the formation
… Give me a ‘2’…”
(45 of us walk silently and form ourselves a straight line.. and it took another 5 minutes for the nice curve of ‘2’)
”Still slowly adjusting there… good… No speaking… No pointing…”
(Round 2)
”Break the formation and walk into the space between yourself again…” (2minutes walking as she give us relaxing explanations and instructions)
”… Now form yourself into a capital letter H”
”Just incase you don’t know what kind of H I want, I’ll draw on the board…”
”No pointing.. No speaking…and slowly get yourself into the formation…”
(We are more comfortable with the space and movement together.. 1 minute we formed it)
”Ahh.. seems like the earlier ‘2’ was a warm up… Now you all are very well aware now…”
(Round 3)
”Break the formation and walk into space again… This will be the last one…” (1minutes walking as she keep our concentration of being silent again)
”…Now form yourself into capital letter ‘R’, I will draw on the board again”
(We spent 2 minutes adjusting… and one group of people suddenly aware that the R we form is in mirror image)
(Immediately we change the formation and we giggle)
Activity Number THREE (Acknowledge the uniqueness of each sound) 15minutes
Section 1
”go into a big circle now…”
”We believe that sound is constantly stored in the air… just like spirit…” (She explained a lot more)
”So we will catch the ‘harmph’ sound from the air.. let the sound past through our body and throw it out into the circle..”
(Everyone copy her movement.. catch the air above our head swing our arm throw it into the middle of the circle when we said ‘Harmph’)
(That sound amazing)
”Now I catch the sound and pass to the person next to me.. and you catch it from me and pass to the next person..”
(Both her arms raise in the air.. catch and toss to the next person “Harmph”. And the next person pass on.. one circle around)
(She caught it back and hold it like a ball in front of her chest, with her eyes close.. harmph.. softly)
Section 2
”Now catch the sounds ‘Harmph Hymph” from the air and toss them into the circle..”
(Everyone does it together… the sound is powerful…)
”Harmph Hymph Haymph” (Same movement)
”Humph Hymph Harmph Hormph” (Same movement, We were so pushed by the sound and toss further into the circle.
”Humph Hymph Haymph Hormph Huumph” (Same movement…)
”Everyone say “Girhh” (everyone reply “Girhh”)
”Feel the sound produce at the back of our throat “Girhh”
”Khhh…. “(Everyone reply “Khhh”)
”LLLL” (Curl tongue inward)
”Feel the sound from the back of our throat “Girhh” to slightly forward “Khhh”, then to the middle “LLLLL”
”And now to much more forward MMMMMMMMMM…..”
”More to the front of our lips…. FFFFFFFFFFFF……..”
”And out of our lips… SSSSSSSSSSSSS…..”
”Catch the sound from the air and we going to do the Girhh Khhh LL MM FF Ss…” (Everyone do together toss the sound into our circle)
Section 3
”Every alphabet have it unique sound and expression.. not just ABCDEFG (singing the alphabet song)
”I want you to feel the energy of each alphabet sound.. So you will be partner up… One person catch the sound from the air”
”let the sound go through you.. pronounce it and toss it to your partner and the partner catch it and toss it back while pronounce it…”
”So team up with the person next to you and each of you will get different alphabet..”
Pair one – AAAh
Pair two – Berhhh
Pair three – Kirhh
Pair four – Derhh
Pair five – Ehhh
Pair six – Girhhh
Pair seven – Herhhh
Pair eight – Eeeee
Pair nine – Jerhh
Pair ten – Kirhh
Pair eleven – LLLLL
Pair twelve – mmmmm
Pair thirteen – Nerhh
Pair fourteen – Oooooo
Pair fifteen – Perhh
Pair sixteen – Rrrrrrr
Pair seventeen – Sssss
Pair eighteen – Tirhhh
Pair nineteen – Uuuuu
Pair twenty – Virhh
Pair twenty one – Wirhh
Pair twenty two – Kirhhsssssss
”spread around anywhere and start tossing….” (some go out into the foyer some stay in the movement room…
and we were tossing air to each other like playing ChiGong for one minute)
Activity number FOUR (Exploring sound through body expression) 10minutes
(She stop everyone from the last activity and add on instruction)
”Now when your partner give you the sound let the sound go through you and express it through your body gesture…
Then pass it back to your partner.. and partner will do the same thing.. explore every possible gesture of the sound that impact you…”
(sound tossing from one to another and everyone come out with different posture and gesture each time we receive the sound) 2minutes
”Discuss with your partner which gesture is the best and practice it.. then we will have everyone to perform…” 2 minutes
“For taking turn to present your “thing” we try to make it flow.. one group go down and the other group move in immediately…”
(It was really interesting each pairs presented their gesture of each alphabet sound.. some jumping up some melting down.. some wiggly off…)
Closing activity 5 minutes
”Back to the big circle”
Instructor gave a conclusion of this lesson…
”Everyone imagine there’s a big golden hoop in front of us.. we bend down and pick it up together.. step back and toss it into the air”
And everyone silently follow the instructor.. everyone hold the imaginary hoop together very slowly
Hold it up high then put one of our foot back, swing our arms back slowly.. and toss the hoop into the air… watch it float away in the air…
Then she close her eyes holding her hands on her chest for few second…
Then she smile and say thank you to the class…. Everyone thank her back and gave her an applause…. It was a lovely lesson…
No comments:
Post a Comment