We used the good ol' game of Machines as a jumping off for this week's Creative Arts Playgroup. Since we've done tableaux, I wanted to explore activating tableaux with them. We warmed-up by playing Machines. Machines is a game where one person will start a sound and movement they can repeat. Other people will connect to that person, repeating their own sound and movement. The group builds a "machine." I then started reading the book, interrupting moments to build various "machines" including a machine in which we start as Max's bed (see above) and morph into a tree in the "world all around him" (see below). They also created sounds to go along with their movements. With the bed above, we began with an "Ah" and a snore, transitioned with a mechanical sound, and ended with the sound of "wind blowing through and crinkling" the leaves in our branches. These exercises were great for practicing improvisational skills, physicalizing objects, and creating soundscapes. These kids really stretched their abstract thinking skills today!
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