Passing by - 31/3/2014

Our last class in public places was entrance of Airport metrostation. It is a place where is lots of travellers and they are passing by in every second aiming to go in to the metro or in the airport. All in all, people are usually very happy  and content in these kinds of places, because travelling is often a pleasure: of course depending is the trip for holidays, working or going back home.

The place for improvising was very similar compared to the Chiado, where we were before. As I mentioned, the place is for passing by, so it is very difficult to take any further contact to the people because often they pass by very quickly and they have clear destination to aim. We started to improvisate agains the wall, so that one body part was freezed against to the wall and other parts were allowed to move. After that we had free hands to do everything what we had learned during the course this far.

For me this was more easier time to improvisate compared to the time when we were in Chiado, because the store of different improvising exercises was larger and there were always some new exercise what we could try to do after another. We tried contact improvisation (eyes open and closed), imitating, statue building, freezed and free movements. It is difficult to say what worked in that place the best and when people, who were passing by, would paid most attention to us. I think that overall people were interested, when the bigger group was doing something unusual and that was something, which paid their attention to us.

This was the last time outside of the class together and I liked very much these times, when we tried everything what we had learned some other place than in class. I think that during these times I really found new sides of me and I was suprised that I can do almost every improvisate exercise without uncomfortable feelings (for example embarrasment, scary, too much excitement). I was feeling really good every time and I was excited what we are going to do everytime and how the place would affect, when we improvisate. I think that every class I improved and collect more confidence to do and try different kinds of exercises. I can say that I am very happy what I have learned and I can be very proud of myself, becuase I really have stepped out of my comfort zone.