to each other as having a notion of completing the image. Meaning person A enters and does a still image, person B while being inspired by the person A enters and links personal image with image that was proposed by the person A. Person C enters and while being inspired by the group image of person A and B connects and adds another element to the sculpture with an aim of having “friendship” sculpture at the end. Tip: Important value of this exercise is acting in the moment, meaning improvising without previous communication about how the subject should be illustrated, who is going to be positioned where etc. Everything happens very quick and what is more important it is possible! Time frame is 10 sec. When youth worker gives the subject the group should conduct the image in only 10 sec. Youth worker starts counting 5,4,3,2,1 and everyone should stay still while the final image result is being observed by others. Having made their collective image, it requires no explanation or justification. There is no space for verbal communication in this exercise and after first five subjects the groups start to function as a team and verbal communication becomes absent spontaneously. From participant’s experience: “This was useful workshop for me because I liked to follow someone’s initiative and add information to his/ her proposal and also how others add information to mine in order to complete the story.” Laura Barquets from Spain, project TFSD Volume II
Workshop Image theatre from the Training Course for Youth Workers, 1st-8th December 2017. Tip:
Workshop Image theatre from the Training Course for Youth Workers, 1st-8th December 2017.
● Part 3 - This part and technique are done within the same groups formed in the step 4 of the part 1 Image theatre workshop segment. Youth worker prepares 10 new subjects different ones for each group. As explained in the part 1, choosing the subjects is welcomed to be inspired by the workshop topic. Part 3 represents Image theatre technique in which groups are illustrating given subject all together in the same time. In part 2 members of one group were entering one by one in the space while linking to each other’s illustrations and this time they are reacting all together. Imagining that each participant in the group is part of one puzzle. Youth worker asks one group to start first. After youth worker gives the subject participants from the group are suppose to react without consulting each other long time. This is why 10sec is a time frame for illustrating the subject non verbally. Within 10sec members of the group illustrate a subject and group stays still for a few seconds while others are observing them.
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When youth worker gives the subject the group should conduct the image in only 10 sec. Youth worker starts counting 5,4,3,2,1 and everyone should stay still while the final image result is being observed by others for a few seconds. From participant’s experience: “Through this activity I learned about how I react better in response to other people’s actions instead of initiating the first movement.” Raluca Croitoru from Romania, project TFSD Volume II
Dealing with images we should not try to ‘understand’ the meaning of each image, to apprehend its precise meaning, but to feel those images, to let our memories and imaginations wander (Boal, 2002).
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