Wednesday 14 October 2015

14th OCTOBER - CP!

Freeze Frames 
NEAR THE FLAG, INNER CIRCLE CP

Participants - Rea, Shruti, Pranav, Vik, Mallika, Shena
Observer - Niranjani

Decided to work with: Celebration, Suspicion, Division, Devastation, Resurrection... and back to Celebration. The idea was to explore stages of 'otherness', as that's a topic that has been on a lot of our minds lately, and then hopefully to engage in conversation with audience members. 'Resurrection' was added as a way to get back to Celebration in order to make the action cyclic. However, Rain Gods decided otherwise... and just as we were getting into it, the effort was rained out - and Doggie Doers and audience alike were seen rushing towards the dryer sanctum of the CP corridors! 
Most of us felt that we were just about finding the exercise when we had to stop, and that it would be worth exploring the idea again, although perhaps with a re-look at the 'resurrection' frame as it was difficult for some of us to move from devastation to celebration with only one stage in between. Other notes: more use of body, less of facial expression would be a good idea.


Play Ball!
OUTSIDE THE NIKE SHOP, CORRIDOR F-BLOCK CP

Participants - Rea, Shruti, Pranav, Vik, Mallika, Shena
Observer - Niranjani



Since it was raining, and folks were drenched and disgruntled, we decided to lighten things up with one of our favourites - the imaginary ball game! As always, super great fun. Lots of people who got into the action, and some lovely moments : the guy inside the Nike store who waved through the glass that he wanted to join in (and Pranav promptly opening the door and throwing him the 'ball'!), the few sporty types who did tricks with the 'ball', heading it, bouncing it off their bodies, spinning it, and fancy footwork with it, and of course the shy ones who were dying to join in, and were happy to do so after a few attempts... 


The good-natured bonding fun served as a momentary antidote to 'otherness', at least for a while.

The ending was a collective moment - the 'ball' grew bigger and floated upwards, then popped and ended up as a little piece of balloon - to universal laughter and a few scattered bits of applause.







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