Choreographing Space Workshop

A two day workshop learning about using our bodies in space, and having fun. The first thing we did was getting a basic awareness of our relation with the forces acting on us in space, gravity pulling us down and another force pulling us up. We then played a 'game', a rectangle drawn on the ground with different things to do when you enter this space, sit down, lie down, walk, stand, run, enter and exit. It was clear to see how each person's actions affected everyone else, getting in peoples way, or leaving them go free. We then evolved this 'game', six people had to enter the space and form a structure of some sort. You could see how everytime someone was about to fall, or their body showed a sign of vulnerability, someone would come in to help, we are all aware of the weaknesses of the body. The next day of the workshop started with all of us closing our eyes and moving around the room. About forty architecture students crawling around the floor with their eyes closed for about half an hour. After this intense warm-up, we moved on to more games. The day ended with each group creating a space within the faculty, using whatever objects we could find. At the end of all this, we were asked to draw our experiences of the workshop, mostly an abstract drawing of the body, and what we had learned from the two days.