In the art camp’s theater workshop, 14 young people explored the topic “Solidarity – heart, head, hand” with both workshop leaders.
Our particular interest was in making solidarity tangible and bringing it to the stage. The focus was on the body and voice. With lots of games, warm-ups, theater exercises, improvisations, and creative writing, participants were encouraged to try things out and bring in their own experiences and perspectives to develop a deeper understanding of the topic.
Another focus was on group dynamics. We paid greater attention to shared impulses and to taking them from each other. Through the exercises, mutual sensitivity to each other was sharpened and conveyed as an essential part of a theater group. We worked with active and passive positions of body tension. The performers‘ own relationship to the space was an important experience. Through free writing, texts were created for scenes, whereby intuitive thoughts were put into words and further processed dramaturgically.
Among other things, we created a monologue as well as sentences and text fragments that we used in choral speaking. The young people were able to work independently in small groups to create scenes and images on the subject areas that most excited them. Here, we have used, among other things, the effect of living statues. The participants depicted statues, formations, or sculptures together. In the last few days before the presentation, the various elements were put together with those of the other workshops, and the process was rehearsed. During the workshop, young people are encouraged to interact, support each other, and work together.
Through teamwork and the exchange of ideas, they learn how important it is to stand up for each other, show solidarity, and thus achieve goals together.
