The workshop was crowded tonight, with ten participants and two guests from the department. Some historical context was given, for the benefit of the new participants.

Games:

• Ya
• Mirror
• Mirror keeping the same distance
• Circle: identifying the possible movements with different parts of the body, without involving the whole
• Moving in space as if one part of the body is leading
• In a circle: copy the walk of the person who leads, change the lead

Reading of two pages of the script, to have an idea of the level of fluency of the participants (and scare them all off).

Listening to the now very familiar (it took months to select which sentences to use in the performance, and still I am aware I will have to make some cuts) lines from my interviewees in different foreign accents, I had a sense of estrangement that I think will fit the performance very well. The accents perform the distance between present and past as well as between cultures.

In the last ten minutes of the session, I showed the short film Fuori Programma, which originated from the first nine conversations I had held with the Italian women who took part in the project.