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Program

This is the masterclass program outline

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Meet Marjolein and read her Tips on how to build a Masterclass Balance.

Here you find the Form for building the program of your Masterclass Balance

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Teaching

Find inspiration for your lessons

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READ EVERYTHING ON

Teaching creativity:

• Can you teach Creativity by Philippe Brasseur

Working with groups:

• Supporting the Learning Identity by Stephen Desanghere –
  Learn more about creating a safe group, stimulating learning and transforming conflict.
• How to Develop your own Learner’s Identity
• Teaching Rank and Power
  Learn more about earning or inheriting rank
• Mainstreams and Margins in the Group

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Games

Fun games for warming up for balance techniques

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Check out these balance games – they help you with

• warming up
• creating the group
• stimulating creativity and focus
• practice your balance

Also check GAMES EXCHANGE on FACEBOOK.

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Form circle, with everybody having the index finger of the right hand to the right and the left hand ready to grab the index finger of your neighbour.

• First round in the count of three
• Second round with other fingers
• Third round with crossed arms
• Fourth round with everybody turning their backs to the circle

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Jellyfish I

Start in a circle, Choose someone in the group -without telling them. Run around this person three times and then come back to the place where you were standing before.

Jellyfish II

Second round, you have to run around two persons at the same time.

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Tag game – ants hospital

When you are tagged, lay down on your back with arms and legs in the air: you’re an ant in need of a hospital.
The others can help you by taking you to the hospital by lifting you at your arms and legs and bringing you to a large crash mat (hospital) somewhere on the floor. They cannot be tagged, while helping you. Once you are in hospital you are ready to start over.
You can add a nurse to the hospital who can

• give you a massage
• if you are playing frosen, nurse is able to warm you up

You can add a clock-mechanism:

• the person who is tagged stands straight, legs spread and moves arms around the body like the hands of a clock, counting til eight. You can be saved when somebody crawls under your legs.

CHECK

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Form a circle. Start counting together, while everyone shakes his arms and legs one by one. First  8 counts, then 4, 2, 1 and jump and shout together ”rubber chicken”.

Use this a warming-up with your group right before starting a performance.

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Start in a circle. Leader tells a story about an imaginary painting and imaginary paint: you use both arms and legs to reach for the paint in huge buckets and start putting on enormous canvases and make your own imaginary masterpiece.

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Everybody starts walking through the room; when the teacher calls your name you start falling down real slow and the rest of the group catches you. Instead of using names, you can use for instance numbers or animals.

• variation: the group lets you to go down to the floor
• variation: the group lifts you up

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Tag game: one is the catcher and if he catches you, you lay down on the floor on your back.
How to save: someone who is free will came to you and lifts you up by lifting both your legs so that your lower body is no longer touching the floor (you need to stay as a stick).
Then saver will let go one of your feet while you still need to keep your body very straight. Counts to three.
After that he lets your feet down again and you are back in the game.

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You try as a group to cross the space to get to the ‘island’ without touching the ‘water’.
Use two hoops or mats to build the ‘bridges’.

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The whole group stands on the balance beam and people swap places without touching the ground.

Variation: put yourself in line according to age, height, etcetera.

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Everybody inside in closed area and everyone is a chicken on one leg.
There is one blind chicken on 2 legs walking around.
Chickens on 1 leg can only hop 10 times and are aloud to avoid and dodge.
The blind chicken has to find and touch all other chickens.
Every chicken that is touched is out of the game.

 ALSO CHECK THIS VIDEO.

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Standing on somebody in box-postion (hands and knees), who is moving around.

Variations:

• race
• parcours
• soft-prop-combat
• flyers try to debalance the other flyers
• bases try to debalance other bases

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Bases (on hands and knees) form a bridge with different heights – like stairs. One flyer crosses the bridge with the help of an assistent.

 ALSO CHECK THIS VIDEO.

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Base lies on the floor. Flyer stands on top. Base starts rolling and flyer tries to stay on top.

Variation: use a prop instead of a base, like a barrel or a foam-assistent-block.

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Balance obstacles on the floor. Climb over the obstacles in interesting or inventive ways.

Variation: Floor is ”lava”, so do not touch it.

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Form two circles. Inside circle runs in the other direction that the outside circle. Leader calls a shape (see picture for examples)

• London bus
• Swan
• Monkey in the tree

Create this shape as quickly as possible with a partner from the other circle. The couple finishing last is out of the game.

 ALSO CHECK THIS VIDEO.

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Work in pairs: facing each other both holding a short piece of rope.
Try to debalance the other by pulling the rope.
If you move a foot you will lose the game.

Variation: instead of rope, put hands together and try to push the other out of balance.

ALSO CHECK THIS VIDEO.

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Tag game: you are safe while standing on the balance obstacles on the floor.
You are only allowed to stay on this obstacle for 3 seconds.

Later on only 2 seconds, or even 1 sec.

The game-leader can replace or take out obstacles.

 ALSO CHECK THIS VIDEO.

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Use several taggers with each one holding a different prop. There is a movement for each prop.
Try to choose very different movements so you cannot combine the movements.
You can avoid being tagged by doing this specific movement. You can only do one movement at the time.
If the tagger touches you, you are the next tagger.

 ALSO CHECK THIS VIDEO.

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WHAT YOU NEED

• Any old board game with different coloured spaces, e.g. Pictionary
• Lots of dice (one per particpant/team)
• Lots of tokens or player pieces (one per participant/team)

HOW TO USE IT 

• Assign a different activity/exercise to each colour. E.g. Blue = Press up, Green = Sit up. Red = Star jump. etc.
• All player roll dice at at the same time (or whenever they are ready)
• Whatever colour their piece lands on is the exercise they must do, the number on the dice is how many reps of that exercise they have to complete. e.g. I roll a 4 and land on a blue square so i must do 4 pressups before i can roll again.
• The game continues until everyone has made one (or two) circuits of the board. Or until a certain amount of time has passed.
• Players are not competing against each other. But those that finish first can have a longer rest!

ADAPTATION

• Use it for specific equipment training e.g. colours represent different static trapeze moves.
• Use it for creativity in juggling e.g. colours represent an emotion and the number represents the intensity.

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Techniques

These techniques will improve your teaching balance and performing

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Unicycle

Introducing the unicycle quickly and with loads of fun: try UNICYCLE MINI WORKSHOP! Also watch and use all these wonderful videos:

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Tightrope

Introducing tightrope quickly and with loads of fun: try this TIGHTROPE MINI WORKSHOP!

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Globe

Introducing walking globe quickly and with loads of fun: try this!

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Mounting and Jumping

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Ladder

Introducing ladder quickly and with loads of fun: try this!

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Rolabola Solo

Introducing rolabola solo quickly and with loads of fun: try this handy to use drawings and also watch and use these wonderful videos:

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Rolabola in pairs

Introducing rolabola in pairs quickly and with loads of fun: try this

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People

These people were involved

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Bibliography

Useful reading material

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DVD

• Basic techniques in circus arts – Fondation Cirque Du Soleil

BOOKS

• Le Monocycle by Barlomiej Soroczynski (Les Èditions LOGIQUES)
• Petit Traité d’équilibre sur boule by Ludovic Lauriere (Collection savoir faire)
• Multiple intelligences, by Howard Gardner
• Encyclopedia of Ball Juggling by Charlie Dancey
• Social Circus Handbook for Teachers by Cirque du Monde

WEBSITES

• www.badscience.net
• www.circusgames.net
• www.zirkuspaedagogik.de/
• www.zak-koeln.com/fachstelle-nrw/circbib
• www.circusarchiv.de

CARDS

• The Partner Acrobatics & Pyramid Cards – Tips and Instructions for Using the Cards (Finnish Youth Circus Association, www.snsl.fi)

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OTHER INTERESTING STUFF TO READ AND WATCH

• SOCIAL CIRCUS TRAINER’S GUIDE – Version April 2013
• SUPPORTING THE LEARNING IDENTITY by Stephen Desanghere
• HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN LEARNER’S IDENTITY DEF
• CAN YOU TEACH CREATIVITY – PHILIPPE BRASSEUR

YOUTUBE

• Why circus works – Mike Finch
• Ben Hyde talking about play 
• Ben Hyde – Playfulness and the Art of Getting Stuff Wrong – IgniteCardiff
• RSA Sir Ken Robinson education stimulating/killing creativity
• RSA Carol Duek on learning identity

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For participants

Only available for people who participated

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