Portuguese Workshops!

Hi guys!

It's the Portuguese team checking in!

We decided from the beginning that our local actions would have to consist in some kind of street performance, but as the time gone by and the help grew thinner we had to re-think our local actions. So we used our knowledge to come up with something that would work well with our local peers and at the same time it would be interesting for us.

We called it "Workshop de Iniciação à Expressão Dramática e à Animação de Rua" which translates to "Initiation to Drama Arts and Street Animation Workshop". Facebook was our main advertisement tool to spread the word in our city and surroundings. So we managed to do some sessions consisting in two-days workshop. 

Each session would always begging with a bit of theory and the background of our local activities - we told them about YEU as well as it's aims and the purposes of the Get in and Gain InterActive Train Project. We shared some photos of Amarante and let the participants ask questions and so on. 

As the introduction ended we would start the warm up section. From segmentation of each body part to cannon vocal exercises everyone should be ready to move on to the next part.

So the group-trust exercises would develop through the rest of the session until the break. 

After that more acting/improvisation-focused exercises.

We tried to differentiate the two segments of the workshop so the 1st could be more self-expression and body-consciousness focused and the 2nd would be mostly related to group-awareness and acting/improvising techniques.

Each session was finished by doing some relaxation and body-awareness exercises.  

We had a core exercise that was developed in the two parts of each workshop - the Animals.

We cannot give away too much about this exercise/techniques for obvious reasons but we can say that it was success!  

From the beginning we made it clear that none of us was a professional trainer so the whole workshop was held in a non-formal education perspective.

Overall it was a much enriching experience and we couldn't be happier about the results. Not only did we act as multipliers on our local communities and did our best to provide new experiences and sensations to the participants but we did learn a lot from them as well.

See you guys soon!