Following from last week, I decided to draft another choral scene with the participants.

The session started with some voice warm-up, to introduce a feminist song that I would like them to sing in the performance.

The song really resonated, it was really moving to sing it at the present time, while women around the world go through the same issues - or worse - the song expresses.

After the song, we moved to more physical improvisations, which went well, and I introduced the participants to the scene about the mental asylum, which will draw from this kind of work.

The sessions are always run in a mixture of Italian and English: whereas I try to expose the participants to the language, I am also always concerned that they could miss something and be too shy to ask.

Whenever we read a new scene, I make sure always ask if the meaning was clear. In any case, I translate the scene on the spot, fuelling more questions also in regard to different speech patterns or dialects employed by the women.

We improvised on the first scene, using different techniques/exercises.

Games:

• Warm up parts of the body
• Voice warm-up
• Song
• Improvisation with objects (gomitolo, racchetta ping pong, telo doccia e ganci, paintbrush) in a circle and in the space

Readings passages about psychology/asylums - in connection with impro on objects.

Scene of the goodbye as a  tableaux vivant (living statute) and as a scene made by three characters with different goals (the character leaving, someone who does not want them to leave and someone who wants them to leave)