Games People Play

I learned 2 games tonight at the Victoria Miro Gallery.  Both of these games are for 2 people to play.  Courtesy of Siobhan Davies Dance.

NSEW

1. Stand facing your partner

2. Establish (agree on) the 4 cardinal directions: North, South, East, West

2. Join hands, with one person (only) crossing hands, so that your right hand is holding their right hand.

3. Choose a "leading arm" for each person (they must be different).

4. At random, pull with your leading arm and walk in one direction.  Your partner must correctly identify that direction (verbally) as quickly as possible by saying "North", "South", "East" or "West".

5. Either partner can change direction at any time.

6. Continue until extreme dizziness makes playing impossible.

YESNO

1. Face your partner

2. Begin nodding or shaking your head

3. Your partner must say out loud "Yes" or "No" according to your motion, without changing their nodding or shaking

4. Either partner can change at any time, and the other must identify it as quickly as possible

They were hilarious, but no one was laughing?  That's because it was Art.

More pics on Flickr.

School of Everything

There's a new school that teaches Tai-chi, Motorcycle maintenance, and jazz improvisation, anywhere in the world, for free or paid, whichever happens to be your circumstance.  So go out and learn or teach something, or both!

Luckily for my dissertation, it seems people would like to be more musical:

PS - in all of the subjects that I "teach", there are far more teachers than learners.  Isn't that curious?  Do we all just want to share knowledge, but not absorb anything?  Hmmm....

PPS - see comments for a note from one of the founders of SoE!

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