Living a more Playful Life (Bring a piece of fruit!)

In this workshop we'll see how many creative ways there are to get the body involved, engaged and moving with the help of one spherical object. Anthony has developed 8 unique mini-sequences, such as: "The three pendulums harmonise", "The lazy bear get up at dawn", "The fool embraces the mountain", each offering different movement and throwing and catching possibilities. The atmosphere created is encouraging, playful and fun. Especially helpful tools for anyone working with youths and also adults as they often "need a reason" to move and this playful approach can help them step out of their often awkward self consciousness into an appreciation and love of movement. Following up with an invitation to spontaneously play and dance with the material that emerges. The object becomes an extension of ourselves. So make a little space, come along with a ball, piece of fruit or even a potato! Also possible to just enjoy moving with an imaginary object too. There is more to this workshop and it is this: as teachers we can always choose a more engaging and fun route. We are surrounded with a mountain of seriousness (and have to dos) that ultimately inhibit our learning process. Takeaways: we learn through mistakes. \*Get over the fear of failure today! Make failure fun, celebrate it! \*There is always another level of engagement that doesn't necessarily have to be more difficult. \*Give value to playfulness and individual expression, stepping out of the mentality that if it isn't difficult is isn't worth anything. \*Learn to move like water as the object shows us how to move more fluidly and organically.