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Illustration of greeting with elbow to elbow.
Illustration of greeting with elbow to elbow.

Person to person, Quebec-style

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Method Details

Learning Space
In Person Training
Duration
5 minutes
Group Size & Age
Any
Materials
non
Created by
Augusto Boal

Everybody gets into pairs. The workshop leader calls out the names of parts of the body, which the partners must join together; for instance, ‘Head to head’ – the partners must join their heads together; or ‘Foot to elbow’ – one partner’s foot must touch the other’s elbow (and vice versa, at the same time, if it is possible). The game is cumulative, i.e. when the partners have conjoined two parts of their bodies they must keep those together while carrying out the next instruction. The actors can make the contacts in any way they choose, sitting, standing, lying, etc. After four or five instructions which have tangled the pairs together, and taken the game to the limit of physical possibility, the workshop leader shouts ‘Person to person’, the pairs separate and everyone finds a different partner – then the process starts again. A number of different people can have turns at calling the instructions.

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