Sound Machine

    🚀 Warm-up / Exercise
    ♾️ Whole Group

    Categories:
    • Agreement & Accepting
    • Object Work & Environment
    • Physicality
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    Players create a Rube Goldberg-esque machine where every part is a person!

    Setup and Format

    One person stands on stage, making a short repeating motion, optionally with sound. Everyone else gradually joins them on stage, making a motion/sound/whatever that complements or adds to the existing people on stage. Once everyone is on stage, the whole tableau should be moving/making noise/whatever in synch.

    To end the exercise, the teacher says "Speed Up" or "Slow Down".

    • Speed Up: Everyone's movement/sound gradually get faster and faster, until the whole machine explodes.
    • Slow Down: Everyone's movement/sound gradually get slower and slower, until the whole machine stops entirely.