explorations

noticing

• touch things - the leaves on the bush or the wall of the old building and really feel the interaction
• take a walk down the street without earbuds and try to notice as many sounds as possible, there is a whole orchestra in traffic
• food meditations - appreciation for the flavors and textures before devouring
• live life as the main character in a Studio Ghibli movie - romanticize the little things and see the wind dance joyfully through the grass
• go on a walk - romanticize the little things, see myself as a studio ghibli movie
• people watch or listen - eavesdropping by a better name. come up with wild stories for each human or object
• how high is the ceiling right now?

living poetically

• carry a notebook around and write/doodle all of life’s gifts
  • journal at a park
  • I like parks
• live at parks, bring a blanket and a good book
• art museums as nourishment of the soul, not mind - focus on the feelings
• turning spaces into new places
  • sitting at night and feeling the infinite expanse of not being able to see boundaries
  • transform spaces with music and scents

art

• gesture drawings - 30 second sketches to capture the _essence _of a person
• blind contour drawings - don’t look at the page and release yourself from the shackles of perfection and give yourself permission to notice details
• make rubbings of objects. touch them. feel them.
• zoooooom in
• self portraits, but make them short and interpretive

writing

• what did you eat today? write a poem in 10 minutes
• what sounds do the objects in your life make? find their rhythms - what do they sound like?

moving

• interpretive dance - either to the music or picking an object and embodying it
• try to fill up as much room as possible with your body

sound

• sit next to the practice rooms and listen to piano as you work
• sing your poems, say them out loud - what do they sound like?

group

• improv!
• many theater exercises that focus on ~energy~
  • counting up in a group
  • wah!
  • group storytelling