Em Workshop Activities

players build out a character's experience based on a single feeling

Players read lines of dialogue that audience members have written on slips of paper and must incorporate them into the scene.

Simple one phrase takeaways

Players create a slide with their bodies and someone else explains what it is

One player makes a pose and the other person makes complementary pose

Establish pattern to pass in a circle. Create a category that each person has a contribution (ie. breakfast cereals). Add another category. 

Players walk in different ways as prompted by the instructor

Characters created by questions from other players
Each character created one at a time, then scenes are played

Group sits in circle, one chair in the middle for VOS

The whole group imagines it is walking around on a plate balancing on a single fulcrum. Each person is partnered with another and must keep the plate balanced.

Director calls out a scene location (ie. movie theater) and everyone assumes a non-human item in the scene (ie. wad of bubble gum on the floor)