Part 1: 5 Sessions + up to 2 one-to-one sessions (Overcoming inhibitions and Going Beyond)

What am I afraid of? Why so formal?

For these 5 sessions, participants will confront their personal limitations through a series of physical and vocal exercises. Participants will be challenged to break their habitual ways of moving and of playing, they will learn to be specific not only with their imagination but with their bodies as well. How can one part of the body communicate to another?

The use of yoga-based movements and gymnastics may also help to create more psychophyiscal possibilities for participants. Even as participants engage in exercises, they are finding personal justification in the small details, so that the exercises transform into the mode of each participant. How can the exercises be driven by the participant’s personal need?

Part 1 will end with a creative task (depending on the batch, it can be opened to invited friends).

Investment: S$250/-

Dates: Saturday evenings in July 2023 / @Sigma

Part 2: 5 Sessions + up to 2 one-to-one sessions (Playing with Archetypes)

I have a role to play, but how often do I really play?

For these 5 sessions, participants will continue to work on their repeatable sequence of exercises created in Part 1. More exercises will be introduced, so that participants begin to be aware not only of their own bodies/minds, but also of other bodies/minds and objects in the space. In movement training terminology, one’s awareness can expand from body-mind to body-world.

Participants will then move on to explore creating a personal dramatic piece with an archetypal role recognisable in Singapore. That can be a Grab delivery person, a teacher, a sergeant major, an insurance agent, a kiasu mother etc. With their chosen archetype, each participant will construct and play with an “archetype sequence” for themselves. Playing has no limits: how can each participant push those limits for the self despite playing an archetypal role?

Part 2 will end with a mini showcase made up of the various personal dramatic pieces. A limited number of friends will be invited for the showcase. (ie non-ticketed showcase)

Investment: S$250/-