- Getting into partners and hugging them with your eyes closed. Whilst you're hugging them, you memorise their clothes, their back shape, their hair, everything you can about them. Then you step away from them, spin for a few s econds and you have to find your partner again. This is hard because you have no sense of direction (because your eyes are closed and you've just spun around), you can't call out to your partner and you have to be aware of other people around you too. When you find your partner, you stand still and hug them again. You repeat this a few more times but replacing the hug with a handshake and many other things that involve contact.
- Get into a group of about 6. Form a circle with one person standing in the middle. This circle should be slightly tight. The person in the middle closes their eyes stands up straight and leans to one person on the outside of the circle. This person catches them, leans back and gently passes them to someone else in the circle and that person does the same. Everyone has to have a go and the person cannot be too stiff and the people on the outside have to be ready and at a steady stance. This game was actually quite scary because naturally, you don't trust the people around you because you think you're going to get dropped but they're ready to catch you. From the outside I suppose you want the trust of the person in the middle because when they're stiff and uncomfortable, they feel heavier than when they trust you and are floppier.
- Finally, we stood in a circle, turned to our right, closed out eyes and put our hands on the person in front of us' shoulders. We felt what they were wearing and what their backs felt like, we spun around again and like the first exercise, we had to find the person's back, hold onto them and form the circle we were in before in the right order.
These exercises allowed us to concentrate on the small details of a person and taught us to remember things after moving about. This will be beneficial to us when Certitude are with us because we can remember small details about each individual as this process is too short to take the time to know each of them from the back of our hands.
When our friends from certitude arrived, we had to be very focused. On the previous Friday We got into small groups (on fridays it's just us, certitude folks only come on mondays) and based on their dreams, we created a piece to teach them. Me and Layla had made a small piece based on going to the moon. So for our piece, I got the astronauts ready and then sent them off to the moon to retrieve a sample of moon rock and they came back to earth and gave it to me. We had to teach our piece to Ian and one of the workers. Ian's disability is more physical and he has to use a zimmer frame with wheels to move around and he can't be standing up for too long, he has to sit down every few minutes. He can understand everything you say as any other person would but he has a problem with speech although you can understand what he is saying if you listen to him. He's very happy and willing to work with you and quite lovable. To incorporate Ian into our piece, he sat down for the launching of the rocket and he used his zimmer frame to "drive" it and it was also used as a space buggy. He enjoyed our piece and he was comfortable doing it because it was something he was physically capable of doing.
The games we played with the adults today were more dream-like. Some of the games we played were:
- This was more of a vocal warm up/exercise. We had to make a magical island soundscape with our voices and when we were tapped on the shoulder, we would make a noise and repeat it. These noises could be birds, wind, twinkly noises, waves crashing, tigers growling, etc. This allowed us to explore our voices and use our imaginations.
- The tribe game was a fun one to play. We were in medium-sized groups and there was a leader of the tribe who moved around the space in all different ways and the rest of the tribe had to copy them and move around the space. The leader would change and this would get interesting because so many people have different ideas and it was a spontaneous, in the moment thing. This helped us to create an atmosphere through our bodies and voices and our friends from Certitude could explore their capabilities, take charge and break out of their shells.
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