Object Colaborators

This week I ran a performance workshop called Object Collaborators. It was based around exploring different objects and creating stories about them. 

For the workshop I told everyone to bring two objects, one with a story and I led exercises using these objects and improvisation. We played warm up games using movement and creating stories with the idea of the yes and principle in Comedy Improvisation. I learnt about the yes and principle when I was part of the Comedy Improv troop Monkey Butler and it still influences my way of working today. It basically means if someone says something it is added to and not negated and through not knowing the end result but adding information, the story is built up. No worries. 

We explored creating stories using this idea, guessed the possible stories of the objects using their properties and played with embodying the objects whilst interacting with each other. The workshop led to making a collaborative film, everyone got involved and worked together well and we used the objects we had to thread together a story building it up bit by bit. The story became about a disgruntled tape measure that went through a transformative journey.