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more exercises to move the brain & body

from kundiman:

c/o Regie Cabico! This exercise helps you work on your comic timing!
  1. stand around in a circle
  2. one person starts by clapping her/his hands once while looking into the next person's eyes
  3. the next person must "catch" the clap by looking into the clapper's eyes and clapping in time to the original clap
  4. the person who catches the clap must then turn around to face the next person in the circle to pass on the clap.
  5. to shake things up: clapping twice sends the clap back to the clapper.

another one from Regie:

stand in a circle and each person has to say a letter of the alphabet, but in 3 totally different ways with three different dramatizations.

from summer camp:

This exercise is sometimes called "A Big Wind Blows" but I think that name is totally dumb. So I call it "Revised Musical Chairs," or if that doesn't work, "Shout Outs."

  1. One person is in the middle and says "I love all my peoples who..."
  2. Anyone in the circle who identifies with that statement has to find a new seat.
  3. No one can sit in the seat directly next to their original seat.
  4. The one left without a seat is It.

from TWTP:

Step-In Step-Out

Do I really need to explain this? I think it would be good to think of some really good statements.

from Estacion Libre, TWTP, and TWTP Remix:

Agree/Disagree

  1. One version of this gives you no gray area. You either agree or disagree with the statement.
  2. In another version you have 4 corners and in each corner there is either "Never" "Usually" "Sometimes" or "Always" - this is a totally different exercise though.
  3. In some versions the facilitators ask people to explain their positions, in others, there is no discussion until the end of the exercise. But this has to be intentional.

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Dojiang said…
oh mika, i like this post. i too, have been meaning to compile icebreakers, energizers, etc.
with the agree/disagree: i've also done it with Jamie Washington like a spectrum. where you move a long a line/general area, depending on how you feel. 2 sides of the room represents the extremes- like strongly agree/disagree.

the alphabet one sounds really fun. i love stuff like that.
another day, i will post the energizers i know up here, and other folks too, and then we can refer to this list in the future.
July 16, 2007 at 8:55 PM
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